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What You Can and Can't Control in Poker, and Why It Matters

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Back in 2007 during the heyday of televised poker, an interesting moment occurred near the end of one of Shannon Elizabeth's matches during her deep run to the semifinals in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

It was the last hand of Elizabeth's quarterfinal match against Humberto Brenes. The players were all in before the flop, and Elizabeth had the chip edge and the better cards with while Brenes had .

As they waited for the dealer to produce the first three community cards, Elizabeth can be heard chanting, "Ten, ten, ten.