Professional poker player and best-selling author Maria Konnikova returns to the show to discuss focus, multitasking, the progress of her career, and her new book The Biggest Bluff. Maria’s first appearance on Episode 247 is one of our all-time favorite ... Read more...

Professional poker player and best-selling author Maria Konnikova returns to the show to discuss focus, multitasking, the progress of her career, and her new book The Biggest Bluff. Maria’s first appearance on Episode 247 is one of our all-time favorite shows!We’ll be donating all June proceeds from The Nitcast Store to Give Directly. Get yourself a Weekend Warrior or Play Optimal Poker and help folks living in poverty while you’re at it!Timestamps0:30 – Strategy 28:27 – Maria KonnikovaStrategyIgnition – $0.10 NL (6 max) – Holdem – 6 players Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com Hero (BTN): 111.3 BBSB: 105.8 BBBB: 100 BBUTG: 80.6 BB.  MP: 160.9 BBCO: 118.4 BB SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB.    Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB)         Hero has Kh Qh UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold Flop : (7.5 BB, 2 players) Ac 2h 2cUTG bets 5.4 BB, Hero calls 5.4 BB Turn : (18.3 BB, 2 players) 7cUTG checks, Hero bets 13.1 BB, UTG calls 13.1 BB River : (44.5 BB, 2 players) 7sUTG checks, Hero checks MARIA KONNIKOVA Maria Konnikova is a poker player, a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and the author of The Confidence Game, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, and the new The Biggest Bluff. Twitter Link