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365 reviews for:
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
4.0 AVERAGE
365 reviews for:
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
4.0 AVERAGE
I wish I had highlighted more-so many good parts on psychology and poker and decision making! But I was worried if I started highlighting I would just highlight everything
I listened to the interviews with the author on different podcast programs, which fed me the curiosity to read this book. Yet the book itself is a little disappointing, or should I say all the main points that the author wants to point out has already revealed during the podcasts, thus the book itself feels a little too long and repetitive.
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The self help aspects are a little basic (pay attention! know yourself! have confidence!), but the author's odyssey from novice to poker pro is fascinating. This book makes me REALLY want to play poker.
informative
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I like many other people have thought of poker as a game of chance. That the skill was some combination of knowing the probabilities of getting certain hands and certain draws, as well as some basic psychology in how to carefully mask or reveal your intentions while reading it in others. But indeed, just like everything else I'm wholly ignorant of, there is of course so much more. The author, herself an expert in psychology and the study of chance, turns herself into an expert poker player with zero previous experience by fusing her understanding of human psychology with an unbounded curiosity and willingness to adapt (and with the help of some incredible teachers), and chronicles not only her journey, but what she's learned about how poker reveals so much about luck and how to create it in life and game. Funny, engaging, and insightful, you'll learn a lot about not just poker but how to approach the uncertainty in the every day, how to roll with the bad streaks, how to prevail with a cool head through the good ones, learning to live life from one hand to the next in dialogue with other humans and all of their inner motives and outward expressions. Read by the author herself gives it an even more intimate memoir quality. Highly recommended.
Excellent book on poker from a psychological perspective.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced