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As President Joe Biden headed to Capitol Hill Thursday in an attempt to persuade Democratic lawmakers to back a major change to the Senate's rules that would allow a pair of voting rights bills to move forward, two key Democratic senators again rejected the idea. The trip amounts to him putting his money where his mouth is, after delivering an impassioned speech Tuesday in which he said there was "no option" except for senators to do away with the filibuster -- a rule that requires 60 votes, rather than a simple majority of 50, to advance most legislation -- if the bills could not be advanced another way.
The White House has said that in the wake of his speech in Atlanta -- where Biden was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris -- Biden and Harris "will be working the phones over the next several days pushing members of the Senate to support voting rights legislation and changes to Senate rules.
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But having odds stacked against O'Brien has spurred her on, rather than deter her. She's been playing No Limit Texas Hold'em poker — one of many different variations of the game — for around nine years, studying and training with coaches, and winning significant poker tournaments. As an amateur, she says she enjoys the game in the same way that others enjoy practising yoga or running. And she's picked up many life lessons from her hobby.
She says playing poker helps to improve an understanding of "not just your own emotions, but those of your opponents, or of somebody else that you interact with". Playing stressed or tired impacts your game, so you need to observe — and try to control — how you're tracking. In a game of poker, you only have part of the information — you can only see your own hand — so players have to consider the range of all possible outcomes, O'Brien says.
Players then tally this thinking with the evaluation of risks and assign probabilities to it. It's a skill that helps manage "unexpected events in life", and determine how to "make the best out of the worst situation in life", O'Brien says. O'Brien wants to impart some of what she's learnt from poker to her daughter, which is why she's teaching her the game.
I want her to learn how to fail and learn how to lose. In learning to play poker, she says you come to understand "that you can look down at a pair of aces, which is the best holding in poker, but you're not guaranteed that you will absolutely win that hand.
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