Ace in the hole... Raise the stakes... When the chips are down... Sweeten the pot... Play your cards right... The English language has a surprisingly deep affection for poker terms. Even if we have never actually played poker, we acquire a certain intuitive grasp of the game thanks to our linguistic inheritance.

Which is a bit strange, isn’t it? Our everyday parlance isn’t peppered with idioms from roulette, for example, or other games you might find in a casino. Is it possible that there’s something special about poker, something that allows it to reflect and pervade real life like no other game can?

Maria Konnikova would likely answer with a resounding yes. As a New Yorker writer with a PhD in psychology, she has spent years studying how people deceive one another, solve complex problems, and make good (or not-so-good) decisions under pressure. And in The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, Konnikova takes on perhaps her biggest challenge yet: Starting as a total novice, can she use her knowledge of human behavior to become a professional poker player? And in the process, can she learn to minimize uncertainty, manage risk, and harness the fickle power of luck?

Equal parts scientific deep dive and just-crazy-enough-to-be-true storytelling,The Biggest Bluff is an insightful, inspiring, downright fun tour through the human mind and into the heart of elite poker. Ready to get started? It’s time to ante up.

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