Tetragrammaton.

Tetragrammaton.

I've always been a very competitive guy.

And in high school, I did debate team, which is the most predictable thing ever, if you know me.

And I taught camp for aspiring debaters.

And of course, at night, there were poker games among the camp instructors, and we'd drink beer and play poker.

And I just kind of had a knack for it.

I mean, I'm pretty good mathematically, pretty competitive and kind of pick up on, like, games pretty quickly.

And at the end of camp, we actually drove out to like the Indian casino in like Mount Pleasant

Michigan. I thought I was pretty good at poker. You know, you go to like not one of the most

pleasant casino environments in the world and got my ass kicked, right? I lost like 300 bucks,

went to the ATM, took out 200 more bucks and lost that, borrowed 200 bucks to my friend. And I was so deeply embarrassed by all of it that like I thought I'd never play poker again.

But a few years later I was at a job, I didn't like very much.

And a friend was starting a poker game and I decided to practice online and practice turned into playing for real money before long.

And it kind of took off from there. Have you ever played any games that don't involve betting?

Sure.

I mean, I'll play, you know, Scrabble or Monopoly or Ticket to Ride or something.

But poker is a game that inherently involves betting.

The core of poker is about bluffing.

Without bluffing, then poker is a broken and

boring game. So I think poker has to be played for money. It's kind of the nature of the game

where people have to put something at least a little bit of pride at risk, or at least something

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