The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast
Leisure:Games
In This Week's Episode:
Maria Konnikova is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and author of the best selling books The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes.
Maria gained notoriety in the poker community when she won the 2018 PCA National Championship for $84,000, plus a $30,000 PSPC Platinum Pass.
What makes Maria’s story so fascinating is that a year before her victory, she had no clue how to play poker, and admittedly didn’t even know how many cards were in the deck.
Maria’s books focus on psychology, and it’s application in the real world. She chose poker as the subject of her next book, The Biggest Bluff, to try to understand the nature of luck vs. skill and figure out if we can learn how to tell the difference.
To research the book she chose to fully immerse herself in the game and attempt to make it on the live tournament circuit. With the help of Erik Seidel, her story has been one of outstanding success, and she’s going to continue with the journey at least until next year when she’ll play the $25,000 PSPC at the 2010 PokerStars PCA.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
10:52 - How Maria landed Erik Seidel as a coach before she ever read a poker book (and why she targeted him as her ideal coach). 26:36 - The high leverage skill that Maria learned through poker which she now applies to her most important decisions. 28:11 - The 3 reasons why Maria achieved rapid success even though Erik Seidel labeled her as "not naturally suited to poker."Resources:
Maria Konnikova:
MariaKonnikova.com Twitter Instagram The Confidence Game Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock HolmesAdrienne "Talonchick" Rowsome:
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141 - Patrick Leonard - AGPM & Pads on Pads Summer Sale Q&A
140 - Vanessa Kade - The Power of Putting It All Together
139 - Paul Otto - From Poker to Crypto
138 - Shakti Chauhan - The Treasure Hidden in Your Network
137 - Robbie Strazynski - The Poker Writer
136 - Peter Clarke - The Philosophy of Poker
135 - Wayne Yap & Nick Howard - Beyond Poker
134 - Melissa Burr - Mental Health in Poker
133 - Michael Acevedo - Humanizing GTO
132 - Incze Zoltan - The Poker Mindset
131 - Marle Cordeiro - Poker Punchlines & Playing for Houses
130 - Adam Neal - The Pressures of Becoming a Poker Personality
129 - Kristen Bicknell - Expectations VS. Reality of Winning Big
128 - Tadas Peckaitis - Focus on the Fundamentals
127 - Ranno Sootla - Getting Out of Your Own Way to Success
126 - Benjamin Rolle - Climbing to High Stakes and Keeping a Beginner’s Mindset
125 - JackStack99 - Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster
124 - Johannes Mansbart - From Professional Sports to Pokercode CEO
123 - Fedor Holz - The Comeback, GG Poker, and WSOP Online
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