Maria Konnikova

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Maria Konnikova, author and professional poker player, joins us along with panelists Demi Adejuyigbe, Amy Dickinson, and Alonzo Bodden.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Weight Weight.
0:08.2	Don't tell me the NPR news quiz.
0:10.9	Getting married?
0:12.2	Put me on your registry.
0:14.3	A nice set of bill verware.
0:17.4	I'm Bill Curtis.
0:18.8	And here is your host, a man who wore his best tailored mask just for this show.
0:24.3	Peter Segal.
0:25.3	Thank you Bill and thanks as always to our Faith Audience.
0:29.9	This week is a group of people on Twitter reacting when Bill slices into me to reveal that
0:34.9	I am actually a cake.
0:37.7	We've got a great show for you today because later on we're going to be talking to Maria
0:40.8	Connacova.
0:42.2	She's a PhD psychologist who went from not knowing how to play poker to winning 300 grand
0:49.1	as a player in just one year.
0:51.8	We have a lot of questions for her.
0:53.8	Like, what do you do if you hit the ace in the flop with your ace king unsuited from
0:56.9	the small blind but the button re-raises you as if he has the set?
1:01.1	Stuff like that.
1:02.1	We're willing to bet you can answer our question so give us a call.
1:04.7	The number is 1-triple-8 weight.
1:07.2	That's 1-triple-8-924-8-924.
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