Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill: Poker, Politics, and Power
Thomas “Tip” O’Neill was a 20th Century American Hero. One of the last, great, liberal New Deal Democrats, he dedicated himself to a lifetime in politics fighting for the working class and underprivileged.
He came from a family of risk-takers, Irish immigrants who gambled everything to win a new life in the USA. Born in 1912, O’Neill grew up in the poor, urban, Irish working- class neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass. Here he developed a lifelong love for baseball, betting, cards, and common folk.
He writes in his memoirs, “All through my teenage years and into my twenties, my life revolved around a neighborhood gang” whose clubhouse was an abandoned basement barbershop. “There was always a card game”, poker or gin, “Nobody had much money; so the games were for a few pennies, a nickel at most.”
Young O’Neill had a talent for numbers, counting cards, figuring odds and percentages. It proved to be a valuable asset for a poker player as well as a p… Continue reading Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill: Poker, Politics, and Power
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