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Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky Opens Up About Battle with Clinical Depression & Anxiety

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."

Anthony Holden wrote those words in his classic poker narrative Big Deal. Not many players are both able and prepared to confront his flaws. Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky, who won the 2011 European Poker Tour Berlin for $1,174,143, is not one of them.