Sublime

Making a living at poker requires interpolating between the deliberative and reflexive systems. The best players must find ways to harmonize otherwise irresolvable conflicts.

if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you must be the sucker. I don’t think this is quite true: it may be that the game doesn’t have any suckers. It is emphatically the case, however, that if you can’t spot one or two bad players in the game, you probably shouldn’t be playing in it. In poker, the line between succe

Become your industry’s curator and do your work in public—these two principles increase your chances for becoming known as an expert in your field,

Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Popova describes herself as an “interestingness hunter-gatherer” and she writes Brain Pickings, one of the most popular

PioSolver—would

when I inevitably ask him the question he gets asked most frequently—what his single piece of advice would be to aspiring poker players—his answer is two words long: pay attention.

“To go straight for the jugular: it all comes down to confidence, self-esteem, identity, what some people call ego,” he tells me. This is at the heart of what he needs to identify. Who are you? What’s important to you? “When you sit down to play, you put yourself on the line. What you have to understand is you’re always a person first and a poker p

Over time, those world-class poker players taught me to understand what a bet really is: a decision about an uncertain future. The implications of treating decisions as bets made it possible for me to find learning opportunities in uncertain environments. Treating decisions as bets, I discovered, helped me avoid common decision traps, learn from re