Life Lessons
How To Eat Oreos (Without Crushing The Souls Of Your Enemies)
What a fictional Russian Mafia boss taught me about eating snacks and living life without regrets
Daniel Negreanu: It is kind of an exaggeration, but [eating an Oreo] is a really good way to illustrate what a tell is.
Maybe it’s been a while since you saw the cult classic poker movie Rounders, so I’ll just remind you about the most important part.
If you don’t win this next hand of poker, you’re probably going to die.
And not just any death. It’ll be the worst (best?) kind of death.
Death by Oreo.
The answer lies somewhere in the middle
Levien: He’s listening to the Oreos, he’s smashing the Oreos, he’s throwing them against the wall. The whole place smells like Oreos. It was completely surreal.
At least that’s what it feels like. But that’s the inescapable part of being human that none of us can, well, escape.
For some of us, facing a Russian mob boss has the urgency of a bomb about to go off.
For others, the situation has the urgency of whether to eat an Oreo.
