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I'm disagreeing with much of this. Poker is about money and competition. You win as much as you can, playing at whatever stakes are the most profitable for you. I don’t consider that to be greedy, but it is core to the game.

It seems both the Corporation and Beal benefited from their arrangement – Beal got a chance to test himself against the best in the world, the Corp got a chance to make a very large amount of money.

Beal is far from a publicity hound. Nothing in his character suggests he wants to flaunt a title he could buy. It's about the borderline obsessive need to challenge himself.

Again, another recommendation for the entire book dedicated to this game --

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King : Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time