poker / gambling and college kids newspaper series

[beenben]

The star tribune (Minneapolis) is doing a series. Here's parts and 2:

part 1 - group of college age poker pros

Part 2 - Gambling addict

[miajag]

Stories of compulsive gamblers really fascinate me for some reason. lol schadenfreudaments?

[SuperUberBob]

Geez, it's the opposite here at PSU.

As a matter of fact, the guy who won the PCA is a Ph.D student here. Some other dude who played aces really [censored] against Phil Hellmuth's kings got a front page article for finishing in the 200's at the 2006 ME.

[Lampard9]

Hey, I also go to Penn State. It was Michael Martin who finished something like 230 in the main event. After that hand when he showed his aces, he was like "just muck your cards Phil." Yeah, Hellmuth wasn't happy.

[SuperUberBob]

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Hey, I also go to Penn State. It was Michael Martin who finished something like 230 in the main event. After that hand when he showed his aces, he was like "just muck your cards Phil." Yeah, Hellmuth wasn't happy.

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Yeah, and you don't say that after getting the near minimum value out of a hand in a situation where you should almost always be able to double up.

I think Mike just wanted to show up Phil for the cameras.

[captZEEbo]

so is part 2, the guy was a blackjack player? I thought it was -EV unless you counted cards (which is illegal)