Me too, I’ve been giggling non-stop. We could each take a chapter and without an editor or any research crank out a better version of this in under three hours.
“Much of what follows is pulled directly out of our ass…”
I bought his psychology book, which I am ready to label as the least essential poker book ever. I don’t know if I want to put myself through that again.
remembering fondly when i embedded a tweet that Mason made about Uncle Sheldon and called him out for supporting online poker’s number 1 enemy and he said it never happened and banned me for it
Lol the first chapter that references the civil war mentions like 4 times for no reason that the North did not enter the war to end slavery. I’m beginning to think that mason’s a “civil war wasn’t about slavery” guy.
on the chapter about the emancipation proclamation being lincoln’s great gamble (don’t fully understand the muddled thinking here as he walks through the historical events - I took a civil war history class in college and none of this sounds right, but my memory is too fuzzy to say for certain).
This paragraph was hilarious to me for some reason.
But there’s a sad ending to this story. Many forms of gambling come with a cost referred to as the vigorish or rake. This was true of Lincoln’s great gamble. The “vig” on the Emancipation Proclamation came approximately two years later in the form of a bullet and the United States lost perhaps its greatest leader in all of its history.