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Chris Torina's Incredible Journey: Undercover Cop to WPT

If you're trying to get a read on a poker player, they say one of the best places to look is the neck. The speed and strength of the neck pulse is involuntary, the thinking goes, so a player whose pulse visibly throbs is experiencing some strong emotion like stress, anxiety or excitement.

Just don't try that on Chris Torina.

For a man who stared down loaded guns as part of his job for a decade, the turn of a card or the placing of a wager won't move the stress needle much.

Now 40, the former undercover narcotics cop no longer deals in high-stakes drug busts.