Dan Carter On Why Winning At Poker Is So Easy
/ Editor / 04 December 2007 / Leave a comment
OVER the newswires, and via the must-read Gloucester Echo, the Poker Anorak learns of Dan Carter.
He's aged 20. And he's a "school dropout cleans up at poker".
Says Carter: "Bad players blame luck but don't understand probabilities. There are so many compulsive gamblers it's depressing. But if they weren't there, I wouldn't make a living. I'm a risk-averse person. I don't do the lottery."
Is this the impetuosity of youth? Probabilities are the same for one and all. And in all probability - and what with luck we may be wrong - Carter will not always win. Not everyone who takes a punt is an idiot. We know the odds. We know the risks. And poker is gambling. No guarantees...
He adds: "I failed my A levels because I was always playing golf. My stepdad played poker. I watched and got interested in it. He didn't do so well. He was just a social player."
Dan is a natural. Here's his mother: "He had delayed speech but he knew his numbers by the time he was two or three. When he started school he couldn't speak but he could tell the time using his legs."
Ten to toes. Legs eleven. And so on...
