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The Taekcast

Ep. 158 - The Biggest Bluff w/ Maria Konnikova

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

News, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Sports News

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Maria Konnikova joins the show to discuss her new Book "The Biggest Bluff", and her journey to becoming a pro poker player. Maria left her job at the New Yorker to study No Limit Hold 'Em under Erik Seidel and went on to win multiple major poker tournaments. Order The Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052552262X www.patreon.com/taekcast www.sportsgrid.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.6

We'll talk at you soon. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Takecast.

1:20.0

My name is Davis-Matic.

1:22.2

You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

1:29.7

In this episode of the show, I'm joined by Maria Konnikova, who has one of the most interesting career paths of any human being you'll ever find. She was a professional writer living in New York, a graduate of Harvard with a

1:37.1

PhD, who decided that she wanted to experiment in the world of poker. She wrote a book that we

1:42.9

discussed today entitled The Biggest Bluff

1:45.4

It is Coming Out Soon. There will be a link to pre-order it in the description of this podcast. I found

1:51.4

Maria's story incredibly fascinating. One of the best books that I have read in 2020 thus far,

1:58.0

and I know that everyone who really enjoys this podcast will really enjoy the book as well.

2:03.5

Maria was coached by none other than poker legend Eric Seidel.

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