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Holding his cards close
Barack Obama is the perfect political poker player: patient, humble and willing to take a risk
Sheldon Alberts, CanWest News Service
Saturday, February 10, 2007

Long before he became a political rock star with designs on the White House, Barack Obama was known to friends in the Illinois legislature as a fearsome card player.

During weekly games of Texas Hold 'Em, he played a tight style of poker -- patiently waiting for the right cards, folding when dealt a bad hand and taking few unnecessary risks.

"He knew the chances of winning and he knew he was going to walk out of there even or ahead almost every time," says Terry Link, an Illinois state senator and former poker partner who had his wallet emptied by Mr. Obama on many occasions.

Ottawa Citizen article

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Do you have the pokertracker numbers to prove this?

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graphs?

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Do you have the pokertracker numbers to prove this?

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27/14/2.6 over ~600. Notes: "3bet QJo sb to co stl, 2x cr'd my bb in blind war J22 turn J chkcalled blank riv w/Ahigh, DNC 04 good spedch"

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Do you have the pokertracker numbers to prove this?

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27/14/2.6 over ~600. Notes: "3bet QJo sb to co stl, 2x cr'd my bb in blind war J22 turn J chkcalled blank riv w/Ahigh, DNC 04 good spedch"

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lol

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Do you have the pokertracker numbers to prove this?

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27/14/2.6 over ~600. Notes: "3bet QJo sb to co stl, 2x cr'd my bb in blind war J22 turn J chkcalled blank riv w/Ahigh, DNC 04 good spedch"

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NH sir.

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Sounds weak tight.

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I don't believe he has a very good shot at the presidency. But one wonders if an actual poker-player in the White House might help things out on this whole online-poker legal situation.
Couldn't hurt.

No idea what his thoughts were on the UIGA though.

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Idk the more and more I read about Obama in the snippets his press secretary lets out I get the image of SPIKETV in my head. It seems like he is catering to them IDK

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I don't believe he has a very good shot at the presidency. But one wonders if an actual poker-player in the White House might help things out on this whole online-poker legal situation.
Couldn't hurt.

No idea what his thoughts were on the UIGA though.

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One of Truman's favorite pasttimes was five card draw. According to David McCullough he was very LAG.