Playing poker professionally and raising a family with kids? Forget it! It’s hard to find two universes that collide more. Poker with its combination of chance and skill and the everlasting pressure to do well and deal with anxiety in a stressful casino environment is a huge contrast to the …
Maria Lampropulos must be the owner of one of the most impressive learning curves in poker. Back in November 2014 the Argentine cashed in her first tournament. It was the R$3000 BSOP Millions Main Event in Sao Paulo, and Lampropulos wound up taking 188th place for R$ 7,350 ($2,913). Since …
In the spring of 2017 Maria Konnikova began her poker journey in Monaco. The Ph.D. in psychology and writer for magazines like The Atlantic and The New York Times and author of two best-selling books Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (2013) and The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It …