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TIL that legendary gambler Phil Ivey won over $9 million dollars playing baccarat with the help of a woman named Chen Yin Sun. Sun spent hundreds of hours memorizing flaws in the patterns on the back of the playing cards–aberrations along margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch.

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