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Comment Re:poker is NOT gambling (Score 1) 205

Given that #2 and #3 are substantially less useful in online poker, it's closer to gambling that it is to a "game of skill," particularly for the vast majority of the population with less than stellar probability skills (see the entire population of people playing the lottery).

I disagree. With online poker you can play mutiple tables and don't take nearly as long dealing and handling chips. This makes the number of hands played sky rocket, evening out the effects luck will have on your game. Luck really only effects short term results anyway, make the same decision enough times in the same spot, and your results should converge on expected.

Comment Do Both (Score 1) 834

A lot of companies will pay the course fees for your masters. Take a class or two each semester/quarter. It takes three years instead of two, but you come out waaay ahead cost wise, get the work experience and the masters. I'm still kicking myself for not doing it my first few years working, when my only real time obligations were video games.

Comment Re:Never heard of it.. (Score 1) 523

Agreed. The ending in the movie was better. The -only- part the movie skipped over that I thought important enough to notice was the mob killing of Hollis. It was his death that pushed Dan over from being the (somewhat ineffectual) conscience of the group to a completely willing accessory to the bone breaking interrigation tactics. The lack of an external event causing that change seemed lacking to me. But then, I went with all people that hadn't read the book, and they thought nothing of it.

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