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I’ve been listening to Phil Gordon’s WSOP podcasts. Yes, I know the WSOP was over like six months ago. So what. I’m occasionally out of touch with the internet. Forgive me.

Anyway, I was listening to the June 22 broadcast, and he was interviewing Richard Brodie:

Phil Gordon: “Do you think your training as a computer scientist helps you or hurts you in professional poker”

Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie: “Well, first of all, I wasn’t trained as a computer scientist. I’m a college drop out. I am a self-taught computer programmer and an amateur scientist, maybe. You know, the math helps… but I think what really helps is the focus on what works – the pragmatism that is necessary to write a computer program. Because you can have all the highfalutin theories you want, but if you’re wrong, your program won’t run. And the same with poker – there’s a lot of people with different theories about how to play the game, and if they’re wrong, then you won’t win. Well, you might win, but you shouldn’t win.

– Transcribed from Phil Gordon’s WSOP podcast for June 22, 2005

I like that. I like that a lot. I may write in on a sticky and post it on my monitor. I think I’ll do that right now. In red ink. Yeah. That’s the way to go.

1. Quiet Lion says:

   December 15, 2005 at 2:26 am

   Thanks for listening!

   Richard
2. dinane says:

   December 15, 2005 at 9:30 am

   Well, thank you for saying such an enlightened thing!