Dalla, a long-time writer/thinker about poker issues - he's something of a specialist on questions of poker ethics - teamed up with Jeff Goldberg, a math professor from Arizona State. The only somewhat scholarly attempt to answer the second question that I've heard about is a piece by Nolan Dalla that appeared in Card Player magazine back in 1995, long before poker's big breakout. sometimes, people are irrational.īut, as it turns out, it wouldn't have mattered if I had asked myself those questions, because there is no reliable research on either subject - at least, nothing since the poker explosion of a few years ago, the one started by the Card Cam (the TV camera which allows audiences to see the players' hold cards during the hand), fueled by ESPN's coverage of the World Series of Poker and the Travel Channel's broadcasts of the World Poker Tour, and topped off by the $2.5 million lamb-defeats-wolf victory of online amateur Chris Moneymaker over cunning pro Sam Farha in the 2003 WSOP. You'd think a guy (that would be moi) would ask himself those two questions before he embarked on a year-long odyssey as a 'high-stakes poker pro.' Well, what can I say. What percentage of 'serious' players show a profit - even a minuscule one - for their careers? How many people actually make a living - even a modest one - playing poker?

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