My screen name: thepsychchic. One word, all lowercase, chosen after much careful deliberation to embody as many of the traits I want to convey to my opponents as I can. Psych, short for psychology—or psychic, as many of my perhaps not-quite-literate opponents will read it. Or psycho. Will I psych you out, read your mind, go berserk? And, of course, chic: the missing k lends both a visual symmetry and an opportunity for the psychic misread, but in the end, chic reads “girl” even to the illiterate. And in the man’s world that is poker, people don’t play against girls the way they play against
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