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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

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. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it.

So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read not just her opponents but herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But in the end, Konnikova learned that the biggest bluff of all is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.

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Recommended Age Adults
Author Maria Konnikova
ISBN 052552262X
Publication Date Jun 23, 2020
Publisher Penguin Press
Language English