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"What life lessons can poker
teach us? I would say all of them," states Annie Duke, professional poker player
and author of the book Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted,
Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker. "What basically happens
is that you really can see in a very magnified way [how] our irrationalities
play into our decision-making."
Duke, who won the 2004 World Series of
Poker Tournament, double-majored in English and psychology at Columbia
University and studied cognitive linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
And she is the author of several poker instruction books that teach game theory
and the importance of probabilistic thinking.
"The problem is once we’ve
formed a belief—which we haven’t vetted really well—we notice information that
reinforces this belief.
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