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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Maria Konnikova is a journalist and psychologist who learnt how to play poker as a way to explore luck, skill and human ...

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 ...

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 ...