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David Sklansky

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Sklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966. He attended the University of Pennsylvania but left before graduation. He returned to Teaneck, passed multiple Society of Actuaries exams by age 20, and worked for an actuarial firm. Sklansky is generally considered[by whom?] a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling. 

Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi). He also won the Poker By The Book invitational event on the 2004 World Poker Tour, outlasting Phil Hellmuth Jr, Mike Caro, T. J. Cloutier, and Mike SextSklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania but left before graduation. He returned to Teaneck, passed multiple Society of Actuaries exams by the time he was 20, and worked for an actuarial firm.[3]Sklansky is generally considered[by whom?] a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling. 

Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi). He also won the Poker By The Book invitational event on the 2004 World Poker Tour, outlasting Phil Hellmuth Jr, Mike Caro, T. J. Cloutier, and Mike Sexton, and then finally overcoming Doyle Brunson. Sklansky attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to become a professional gambler. 

He briefly took on a job as an actuary before embarking on poker. While on the job, he discovered a faster way to do some of the calculations and took that discovery to his boss. The boss told him he could go ahead and do it that way if he wanted but wouldn’t pass on the information to the other workers. "In other words, I knew something no one else knew, but I got no recognition for it," Sklansky says in Al Alvarez's The Biggest Game in Town. 

"In poker, you make immediate money if you're better than anyone else. If there's something I know about the game that the other person doesn't, and if he's unwilling to learn or can't understand, I take his money."Sklansky resides in Henderson, Nevada.

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