Julius was having a good night, or, to be more precise, a highly profitable early morning. The poker game being held inside a private dining room at the Cambridge restaurant Caroline’s was a high-stakes affair. A ten grand buy-in, fifty dollar ante, and raises up to five hundred dollars. For the first six hours of the game, Julius mostly held his own, never going up more than thirteen hundred and never being down more than three hundred and seventy, but shortly after two a.m. the tide turned sharply in his favor. At three twenty-two a.m. Julius was up $28,590. One

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