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Walter Stevens's avatar

Interesting piece Elmar. I've never had any interest in gambling. Although my father was a very good bridge player, he could never convince me to learn the game. I did however enjoy reading The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova. It follows a PhD psychologist as she takes a year to learn poker and play in the largest tournament in Las Vegas

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Elmar Conradie's avatar

Thanks Walter. The Biggest Bluff was actually my first book down this journey and some of these concepts did come through, but I enjoyed "Thinking in Bets" more from a practical advice point of view.

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Walter Stevens's avatar

I started a PhD once (and got too busy to continue with it) bur there is a lot very interesting research concerning managerial decision making under uncertain information (risk), because the classic works on strategy barely touch on it.

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Walter Stevens's avatar

Interesting piece Elmar. I've never had any interest in gambling. Although my father was a very good bridge player, he could never convince me to learn the game. I did however enjoy reading The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova. It follows a PhD psychologist as she takes a year to learn poker and play in the largest tournament in Las Vegas

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