The combination represents a tempering balance of dualities: steadiness and adventure, calculation and risk, skill and chance, caution and greed, the cool reality of numbers interacting with the warm reality of luck--getting hot or not. That is the recipe that makes poker a great American invention. (An invention, like jazz, with pre-American roots.) As Walter Matthau says, in a beautiful sentence McManus quotes: "Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."from Robert Pinsky: The New York Times: The Cheating Game
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