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Rated The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win 8/10

Really well done. Over the course of researching and writing this book, the writer became a genuinely successful professional poker player, and there's lots about poker in here, but she also achieves her goal of extracting from poker valuable lessons about psychology and decisionmaking. It's well-written and engaging, though with some repetitiveness. When Konnikova gets an insight she really works it over - I definitely found myself highlighting some points only to see them rephrased a few pages later. Highly recommend; admittedly, you may need to already be open to the idea that poker is interesting and that its principles are transferrable. I was already there on both points. <br/><br/>I much preferred this book to the similar [b:Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts|35957157|Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts|Annie Duke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1513351600l/35957157._SY75_.jpg|57513167], which felt much less like memoir or analysis and much more like a business self-help book.

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Published 2026-08-18 14:45 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere