Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids Quotes

“You’ve got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again,” he would say, “but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you’re still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It’s a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it’s much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time.” Once”
― David Kushner, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas

“After hearing the kids at the Ground discuss the Pro Tour, Finkel burned to compete. But the event was invite only. And who was going to invite a total unknown? Rather than sit by the side, he picked up the phone and called Wizards. “My name is Jon Finkel,” he loudly declared, “and I was wondering if I could come to the Pro Tour.” What the hell, the staff at Wizards thought, if the kid had the balls to call up and ask for an invitation, how could they say no? Careful”
― David Kushner, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas

“Rumors began circulating that Magic cards were so valuable that drug dealers were using them to launder cash.”
― David Kushner, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas