Brian Koppelman

Yeah, I mean, a big difference between rounders and what I did is I didn't even know how to cheat, and I wouldn't have cheated him because for me it was really important.

As a guy who was at Tufts and who had really bad ADHD, it was very important to me that I tried to match wits against those guys and prove to myself that I could come out ahead for real at the poker table.

No, the great thing about Harvard guys at a final club, I mean...

you don't have to do anything for them to feel like they're better than you.

You just have to show up.

They're always going to think they're better than you.

So I just had to show up and they were like, first of all, I was from Long Island.

That's a giant strike against me.

I was at Tufts.

That's another strike against me.

I definitely wasn't dressed the way that they were dressed.

And yeah, I mean, I would play basketball and be in sweats and just come in the same clothes or whatever.

Lose it.

I mean, at eight was losing.

I was in a camp bunk and a bunch of guys knew how to play and I didn't.

And when you lose your whole, like all your canteen money, like the 20 bucks that's supposed to buy you candy for the whole summer and you lost all that, you're like, that's never, I'm not letting that happen to me again.

So I started like reading books about poker and my, my, my dad, he liked to gamble some and he had a,

poker set at home, like with those plastic chips and like a, a wheel.

So I love that.

And I like, I think I came that summer.