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The Guy With No Leaks At All - 2004-01-08
Several months ago we wrote about successful poker players who have “leaks,” and tried to provide insight into how some astoundingly skilled players can make substantial scores in tournaments
and cash games, and just flat-out throw that hard-earned money away. We found otherwise successful poker players who threw money away at craps tables, racetracks, sportsbooks, and other money-sucking sites.

We thought we had a pretty good angle on the psychology of successful high-stakes leakers, and it turns out to be distinctly Shakespearean. In many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, those traits that made characters successful and heroic were the very ones that ultimately brought about their downfall. And so it goes with many poker greats.
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Learning and Lying on TV - 2004-01-08
Opportunities to further understand poker through watching “holecard exposed” TV have been popping up in Europe ever since the British Late Night Poker show and the Poker Million, and much more recently in the United States via the World Poker Tour and ESPN’s seven-part special on the 2003 World Series of Poker.

Good poker players usually look for any kind of edge they can find, so it isn’t surprising to see players studying tapes and/or DVDs of these tournaments. Viewers believe they can pick up tells on the participants, and even if they believe it unlikely that they are ever going to battle Howard Lederer at a final table (someone I would consider an unlikely candidate for revealing tells, by the way), they believe they can learn much more about how top pros play.
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