When each proud fighter brags
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Remembering Max Chiswick, may his memory be a blessing.
When each proud fighter brags content warning: As heavy as this blog gets. (1) I met Max Chiswick in June of 2024 because I wrote something wrong on the internet. He tracked me down at Manifest to tell me so—I had written about the shortcomings of poker as a teaching tool, but I had made several wrong assumptions about how one would play poker differently with the goal of learning instead of recreation. First, you'd play with two players instead of eight. We nearly always play with eight-ish players because we want a relaxing game, where large gaps in the action are considered a feature . With
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