Mastery is always a struggle for balance. How much time do you devote to the craft, and how much to yourself? And can you really do one without the other? I have a dual goal here. My poker journey—but also the larger journey that the poker is meant to lead to. They can’t be separated. And as I’m learning, the craft of poker certainly cannot be mast

We went through the trick’s beginnings step by step. The small, in-between moments typically reveal opportunities in which to pull off a sleight, so it’s crucial to intimately understand every step of the trick in order to dig in and insert a deceptive method.

“Wow,” Penn started. “I think we might be more impressed because we know what you did. A good friend of mine, Jerry Camaro, did the move that you did when you were dealing out the cards. And his move was so perfect, he would teach it to magicians, but they could never learn it, and the reason they could never learn it was because he spent fourteen