For poker players, understanding variance comes easily. It becomes second nature. On some days, aces get cracked and draws miss, while on other days, you leave with a bruise under your eye from ...

Maria Konnikova graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, earned her doctorate in psychology from Columbia and has written two New York Times best-sellers — “The Confidence Game” and “Mastermind: How to ...

Poker is a woman’s game. New York Times best-selling author Maria Konnikova may have been the first to say this because, well, poker has almost always been a man’s game. There have been some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bonnie Marcus writes about women's empowerment and leadership. Konnikova took a break from the EPTParis tournament in February to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, and Maria Konnikova, the author of The Biggest Bluff, are launching a new ...

Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of “The Biggest Bluff.” She is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker, the author of two previous New York Times best-sellers, and a ...

Ed. Note: This interview with Maria Konnikova originally appeared in The Forward on June 11, 2019. Her book, “The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win,” comes out ...