“We were the first generation of online players, the
first really good poker players. Most of the poker pros in the past were these
rough-and-tumble guys that didn’t have a great opportunity in their lives who
were like, ‘I don’t see myself having a traditional career, so I’m going out to
try my luck in Vegas.’ They're not these nerdy math guys and girls who were
sitting at home or at college with plenty of options but who then started
making a lot of money by doing statistical analyses. That’s a different generation
and that’s where we were.”— Vanessa Selbst quoted in in Stephen Foley, “Lunch with the FT: Vanessa Selbst—Triumph of the Nerdy Math Girl,” The
Financial Times, Dec. 12-13, 2015Saturday, May 21, 2016
Quote of the Day (Vanessa Selbst, on the 1st Generation of Online Poker Players)
“We were the first generation of online players, the
first really good poker players. Most of the poker pros in the past were these
rough-and-tumble guys that didn’t have a great opportunity in their lives who
were like, ‘I don’t see myself having a traditional career, so I’m going out to
try my luck in Vegas.’ They're not these nerdy math guys and girls who were
sitting at home or at college with plenty of options but who then started
making a lot of money by doing statistical analyses. That’s a different generation
and that’s where we were.”— Vanessa Selbst quoted in in Stephen Foley, “Lunch with the FT: Vanessa Selbst—Triumph of the Nerdy Math Girl,” The
Financial Times, Dec. 12-13, 2015
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