Biggest Bluff w/ Maria Konnikova

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by science writer and psychologist Dr. Maria Konnikova to talk about her newest book, "The Biggest Bluff: How I learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win." They discuss her journalistic interest in game theory which ultimately led her to learn to Texas Hold 'Em, resulting in an incredible transformation to a professional poker player with over a quarter of a million dollars in winnings.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday August 24th
0:18.0	2020 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this week I want to
0:22.3	thank our top patrons, those who have
0:24.8	pledged a you know significant amount of support to keep Talk Nurdy free for
0:29.3	everyone else. They include June Separa, Christopher Pitts, Michael Goshay, Mary Niva, Pasqualee, Orica Hagman, Dutas Infinitas, David J. E. Smith, Charles Payet, and Brian Holden. Thank you all so, so very much. All right now let's dive
0:49.0	into the show. This is a really, really good one you guys. I had the opportunity to sit down with Maria
0:53.8	Conakova. You may remember her from a previous episode, I think just one, maybe
1:00.1	two, I think just one.
1:02.7	Honestly, I could look that up, but doesn't really matter,
1:05.9	does it?
1:06.9	We've spoken with her before on Talk Nurdy
1:09.1	about her previous books.
1:10.7	She wrote about really a lot about con artists and kind of about human
1:15.0	psychology. She wrote the confidence game and mastermind how to think like
1:19.2	Sherlock Holmes and that's what we would have spoken about on our previous episodes.
1:24.0	She actually studied psychology academically and then went on to become
1:31.0	you know just a really celebrated science writer across several different science
1:36.2	platforms. But more recently, as she was researching for her newest book, she actually
1:42.2	became a professional poker player, sort of accidentally.
1:46.4	She's won over $300,000 in tournament earnings and she's going to share with us today.
1:52.4	A lot of the stuff that she learned in trying
1:56.1	to understand poker. So her new book is called The Biggest Bluff. How I
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