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My first WSOP bracelet

What happens when victory is tainted with bullshit?

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Maria Konnikova
Oct 15, 2024
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This Monday, in the early hours of the morning—around 3am PT, to be exact—I won my first ever World Series of Poker bracelet. It was in an online WSOP event, the $888 Crazy Eights, in a field of 468 players, after almost ten and a half hours of play.

I know people tend to look down on online bracelets as somehow less real than ones won on the live felt. …

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