The Casino in Connecticut is the capital building for those of us in the Great Game who live in New England. My friend Matt is a professional gambler who thought he discovered a game full of high rollers to crash, but it wasn't that simple. Since friends invite their friends when they do stupid things, I came for the ride. We discovered that people are betting on what utter strangers will do next. These Architects of behavior have the money and power to do more than make you disappear. They will make you live a life that the average person believes can only be fantasy, and the alternative is often worse. The world is full of people who live what they believe is a normal, mundane life, butMore in reality, it's something different. This mostly true story will make you doubt the facts and question whether someone is pulling your strings. Someday you'll have to abandon all that you know. Even the most paranoid are right sometimes.

In chess, and other games with open information structures, the entire state of the game is visible to both players for evaluation. There’s nothing hidden. If players are experienced, they can calculate out moves dozens of turns in advance and see exactly what will and will not happen. This is not that kind of game.

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