Summary of Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff

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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 by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781952482045

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Contents

1. Overview

2. Insights from Chapter 1

3. Insights from Chapter 2

4. Insights from Chapter 3

5. Insights from Chapter 4

6. Insights from Chapter 5

7. Insights from Chapter 6

8. Insights from Chapter 7

9. Insights from Chapter 8

10. Insights from Chapter 9

11. Insights from Chapter 10

12. Insights from Chapter 11

13. Insights from Chapter 12

14. Insights from Chapter 13