BRAINS ON GAMES
Daniel Cates, a world champion, began his dedicated train ing routine at age six. That was when he first discovered his natural affinity for the video game Command & Conquer, which in those days came free, bundled with Microsoft Windows. From then on Cates disdained playing with other kids, preferring to spend hours commanding and conquering in the basement of his family's suburban home.At the math-and-science high school he attended, Cates would cut class and find his way to the computer room to play the puzzle game Minesweeper. The game requires locating mines hidden in an opaque grid and flagging them-without exposing one and get ting blown up. Although he was just so-so when he started playing the game, endless hours of practice made Cates able to clear all the mines within ninety seconds-a feat that seemed impossible to him when he started learning the game (and utterly inconceivable to me when I just tried to play the game online; give it a go and you'll see).
At sixteen, he discovered his metier: online poker. In just eighteen months Cates went from losing five-dollar games in live-action kitchen poker to winning up to $500,000 online poker purses (and just in time-within a few years online poker became the target of laws against it, at least in the United States). By the time he was
twenty, Cates had won $5.5 million at the game, $1 million more than the second-highest player's reported earnings that year.
BRAINS ON GAMES
Daniel Cates, a world champion, began his dedicated train ing routine at age six. That was when he first discovered his natural affinity for the video game Command & Conquer, which in those days came free, bundled with Microsoft Windows. From then on Cates disdained playing with other kids, preferring to spend hours commanding and conquering in the basement of his family's suburban home.At the math-and-science high school he attended, Cates would cut class and find his way to the computer room to play the puzzle game Minesweeper. The game requires locating mines hidden in an opaque grid and flagging them-without exposing one and get ting blown up. Although he was just so-so when he started playing the game, endless hours of practice made Cates able to clear all the mines within ninety seconds-a feat that seemed impossible to him when he started learning the game (and utterly inconceivable to me when I just tried to play the game online; give it a go and you'll see).
At sixteen, he discovered his metier: online poker. In just eighteen months Cates went from losing five-dollar games in live-action kitchen poker to winning up to $500,000 online poker purses (and just in time-within a few years online poker became the target of laws against it, at least in the United States). By the time he was
twenty, Cates had won $5.5 million at the game, $1 million more than the second-highest player's reported earnings that year.
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