This week on “World of Jenks,” documentary filmmaker Andrew Jenks follows around professional gambler Nick Schulman, who has won $10,000 gambling in one night.
Schulman often goes out at midnight and gambles for 24 hours straight.
Gambling for 24 hours straight and still making logical decisions in the game seems unusual.
Surprisingly, when Schulman gambles, he never looks at how much money he wins. Instead, he looks at money as “units,” as something to be replaced. And he never views playing poker as work.
How can a professional gambler not look at how much money he wins and not look at it as a job?
Schulman and Jenks travel all the way to London for a day to play one game of poker. Jenks isn’t allowed to watch the game, but Schulman finishes in 3rd place and is devastated by what he thinks is a terrible loss.
Schulman works hard, but he needs to get a real job. It’s great to win millions, but he should set some aside so that he wouldn’t have to worry about money every day. He was a millionaire by the age of 21, but gambling caused him to lose most of that money.
Competing in the World Series of Poker, Schulman lost the first round because he risked it all too soon. One would think that by now, Schulman would know how to properly strategize and not risk it all from the beginning, especially at the World Series of Poker.
Later in the episode, Jenks catches up with Schulman and discovers that he has taken time off from gambling to go on a road trip with his brother.
It’s good to see him trying to bond with his brother as he realizes what’s truly important in life– family.
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