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and (especially towards the end) held my own at least decently well.

I think I'm close to done though.

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If you ask any gambler you looked like a [censored]. The only people who would say you "held your own" are accountants, lawyers, dentists, whatever your dad does, and other people without backbones.

You print this thread up and take it to the Bellagio in Las Vegas and show it to anyone in the poker room and they will say you are a piece of [censored]. Maybe you "held your own" in some world where your mother holds your hand til college and you have been sheltered since the age of 3, but in the real world all you did was let everyone know your word is worthless and therefore you are worthless.