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“You will never know a slot machine. You will never know a blackjack dealer,” he notes passionately, but when it comes to playing poker “you get to make a choice — to look at your cards, to read your opponents.”

His voice speeds up as he talks about the complexities, the strategy, the other player’s faces and how he’s learning to read them like a book. He says just knowing what a person does for a living clues him in to what kind of player he might be facing across the table. And like the pros he’ll use any detail to his advantage.

Cary, whose best night at the tables so far reaped $1,500, says another important key to being a good poker player is to respect money, but also have somewhat of a disregard for it. “It’s a catch-22 in the sense that you have to know when to walk away and say, ‘I’m having a bad night,’ ” he points out. “If you don’t have somewhat of a disregard for money you won’t ever bet enough to win a hand.”

He also knows the risks: “I don’t feel I am gambling any more in this than I do in any other part of my life — like working with a new young band and (a producer) might pour $60,000 in them and roll the dice and see if there is a public response to them.”

“I have a job to pay my bills,” he adds. “Some of the money goes for more games and some goes for me to have fun. Last year I won more than I lost. And by a good percentage. But music is my passion and that’s always held me my whole life.”

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