Life Is a Lot More Like Poker Than You Think

Jason Gutierrez
3 min readJun 22, 2022
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash

The first time I played poker at a casino was in New Orleans in 2014. I was with my buddy Nathan who, I didn’t know at the time but would soon learn, was quite the poker aficionado. We strolled through the Roman Empire-style entryway of the building and onto the floor with a sea of slot machines and other things you’d see in an Ocean’s 11 movie (minus Brad Pitt and George Clooney).

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Jason Gutierrez

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