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020			_a9780525522621 _q(hardcover)
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100	1		_aKonnikova, Maria,
245	1	4	_aThe biggest bluff : _bhow I learned to pay attention, master the odds, and win / _cMaria Konnikova.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2020.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2020.
300			_a354 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aA prelude -- Las Vegas, July 2017 -- Ante up -- New York, late summer 2016 -- The birth of a gambler -- Boston, fall 2016 -- The art of losing -- New York, fall 2017 -- The mind of a strategist -- New York, late fall 2016 -- A man's world -- New York, winter 2016 -- No bad beats -- Las Vegas, winter 2017 -- Texting your way out of millions -- Las Vegas, winter 2017 -- A storytelling business -- Las Vegas, March 2017 -- The gambler and the nerd -- Monte Carlo, April 2019 -- The art of the tell -- New York, May-June 2017 -- Full tilt -- Las Vegas, June-July 2017 -- Glory days -- The Bahamas, January 2018 -- The heart of the gambling beast -- Macau, March 2018 -- The ludic fallacy -- Las Vegas, June 2019.
520			_a"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 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 PhD 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. But then something extraordinary happened. 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 far more importantly 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. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aKonnikova, Maria.
600	1	0	_aSeidel, Erik, _d1959-
650		0	_aPoker players _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen poker players _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aPoker players _xPsychology.
650		0	_aPoker _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aHuman behavior.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft.
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