“I live in Greenville, South Carolina, and was playing in a little $100 buy-in no-limit hold’em tourney at a clubhouse in a nice subdivision, in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, with a group of 16 corporate America-type guys just having a fun time. However, I have talked to many friends and acquaintances who have faced such unpleasantness, so I have a pretty good idea of what is going on.

When I went to Halifax, the game had been robbed the previous week and was busted by the Mounties the following week. Another time, I went to Vancouver, Canada, to play, and the game host informed me the Mounties had busted his game two days earlier. One time when I failed to show up for my weekly game, an irate loser who got in a fight at the game came back with a gun and killed three of my friends. He has been a poker teacher since 1995, with his students having earned well over a million dollars in tournament play. He has numerous poker tournament wins and placings, the most prominent being third place in the 1987 World Championship. Considering the enormous number of times I have played poker in a situation in which I was potentially exposed to such threats, my luck Bob Ciaffone is one of America’s best-known poker players, writers, and teachers. I have never been either busted or robbed when playing poker.

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