The Biggest Bluff
by Maria Konnikova · first published 2020
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"How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued b
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This book is said to be quite good: https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Bluff-Learned-Attention-Maste...
on “Johns Hopkins Poker Course” ↗I really enjoy Nate's podcast with Maria Konnikova - I read her book The Biggest Bluff a few years back and really enjoyed it, and them podcasting together is great. (Despite my feelings about never wanting to hear Malcolm Gladwell's voice ever again, as he's omnipresent in Pushkin podcast…
on “A few words about FiveThirtyEight” ↗…Konnikova on her new book about luck, game theory, etc. They discuss von Neumann, and how he was actually a bad poker player, bud enjoyed the social aspect. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/konnikova-biggest-bluff/
on “Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save” ↗