When the summer ended, he asked his father Charles, who kept a wheel of clay chips in his Long Island home office, to teach him how to play cards.īy the time Koppelman met David Levien on a teen tour of the North American West, the seeds of the former’s poker obsession had long since been planted. “I lost, and I was like, ‘I want to learn to get good at this game,’” Koppelman, 52, said recently.
That day, he parted ways with his entire canteen stash: a cool $30.
When Brian Koppelman was an 8-year-old playing in his first five-card draw game, his sleepaway camp bunkmates cleaned him out. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
