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Better to be lucky than good

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Editor's note: This article appears in the August 28 issue of ESPN The Magazine. I believed Mike McD for eight years. "People insist on calling it luck," he kept saying sarcastically. Sure. We all knew better. If poker was about luck, as Mike says, the same guys wouldn't be sitting at the final table of the World Series every year, right? Poker was about skill and intuition. Poker was about reading opponents like a police detective, outplaying and outwitting them, always remaining ahead. Poke ...

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