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Surviving poker's bad streaks

By Bernard Lee
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Poker is a great game: the thrill of competition, the camaraderie with your fellow competitors, the triumph of taking down a huge score. When things are all going your way, it is a feeling of euphoria. During these runs, you seem to win every race, complete every flush draw and hit every set. You feel unstoppable. Then again, this fickle game can also turn 180 degrees without warning. Out of nowhere, you lose every coin flip, your over pair gets cracked by two undercards, and your opponents ...

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