How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova
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How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decisionmaking and a woeful ignorance of cards into a lifechanging run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the gameIt's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know t...
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