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From the deserts of Peru to the peaks of Tibet, Munoz pedaled through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, as well as some of the planet’s most remote locations. Along the way, he accumulated memorable experiences like being incessantly stared at in Southern India or learning how to order Chinese food through sign language...
...lasting impressions was that people in the world are much more friendly than you think,” Munoz says. “People in the developed world sometimes think that the people in lesser-developed world are out to cheat you. However, the most unfriendly people I found by a mile were people in Europe, Australia, and America...
...hundreds of years, the most powerful voices in American society branded gambling a wicked sport—spittle in the face of the Protestant work ethic. Puritans drafted the first gambling regulations in the New World with self-satisfied relish. “If asked to name the greatest agencies of evil in the land,” declared one Methodist preacher from New Orleans in the late 19th century, “we would not have declared the giant evil until we had named the Louisiana State Lottery.” Preachers, the moral compasses of their day, took...
...virtual gambling tables that support the strange world of online poker, the insiders have names for their prey. “Fishes,” they are called in the chat forums that accompany online games. And “donkeys.” Also, “suckers,” “muppets,” and “idiots.” By all accounts, “Darkhawk-2000” qualifies as none of these. But that didn’t keep him from losing $8,000 in a single sitting one fateful...
...name, but nobody—much less professional players—knew who he was a little less than a decade ago. Through a $39 buy-in satellite tournament online, the then-27-year-old accountant from Tennessee won a seat in the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker, where he won the first prize of $2.5 million. The crowning of a regular Joe as World Champion had seismic effects: interest in poker spiked—a trend that has been dubbed the “Moneymaker Effect”—and hobbyists emerged from...