Intersting quote from "The Professer, the Banker, and the Suicide King

[andyfox]

"It's not guaranteed that we'll win. Andy's a pretty good player."

"When you play him [Beal], you're probably, at best, a two-to-one favorite, maybe even less. If you counted just wins and losses, we're probably ahead 57 percent to 43 percent or something like that. His losses have been bigger than his wins. When he's losing, his game deteriorates. That's something that's not as likely to happen when we're losing. Plus we have the advantage of putting in new players--fresh players, players with the most success against him or whose styles match up best. When you consider that we're the best in the world and we have those other advantages, it's pretty even. It's not really clear that, on skill, alone, we're better than Andy."

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