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Monday, April 21, 2003 Good Jim and Bad Jim and Mostly Lucky Jim "That's my favorite hand — my wife's birthday is March 1st, so I always play A-3 suited, and I play it very aggressively," he explained, adding that he also liked 8-9 of hearts, because their first date was in 1989 and their first child was born in 1998. "Game theory says the good hands come along so rarely, you have to have bluffing hands. Mine are emotional and romantic." "Luck is determining to an enormous extent who's going to do well in a poker game," he added, "so voodoo doesn't make any less sense than any other method." And it works. During the 2000 World Series of Poker, Mr. McManus turned his beloved 8-9 of hearts into two pair and a $78,500 pot, keeping himself afloat at a crucial moment to land one of the 45 seats that come with prize money. Having gone to Las Vegas to write an article about that year's tournament for Harper's Magazine, Mr. McManus used his $4,000 expense-account advance to enter on a lark and ended up coming in fifth. posted by Jeff Lester | 5:26 PM | |
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