No, you never do, including last Thursday, when the 67-year-old sat down with $300 in chips at a $1-$3 Texas hold ‘em table when the Rivers Pittsburgh poker room opened at 10 a.m. “There’s variance, a luck factor, which at times is extremely frustrating and at other times extremely interesting. “I like it as a challenging game,” he told Penn Bets by phone Friday. The self-employed businessman doesn’t mind driving a few miles each week from his suburban Pittsburgh home to the Rivers Casino to indulge a hobby that occasionally makes him a few bucks.
He’s one of millions of Americans who learned the game as a kid and enjoys it as an adult.
