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[Evan]

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This is almost certainly untrue.

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I wouldn't doubt that you are right. Though I admire Chanos's "courage" for trying to make money as a short, I think I've read more than one Chanos analysis and thought he was misinterpreting some facts to make his argument. I wouldn't doubt he heard a juicy rumour and decided to run with it.

I myself would never pay people to play online when it's so easy to program a computer to do so for free.

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I have no idea how easy it is to program a computer to win at poker. If we're talking about games for any meaningful amount of money I would guess it's hard, but I'm no expert.

My reasoning was that whatever you're paying these people to play for you is not worth it for them if they're good enought hat you'd be willing to pay them. It's not that tough to scrape together a grand to play 2/4. If you're decent at multitabling you could probably make $40+/hour and move up pretty quick. No way playing for someone else is hte besst deal.