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Only @newyorker writer ever to go on leave to play pro poker. Wrote some bestsellers (amzn.to/2qmaDAe). Co-host Risky Business pod. @PokerStars Team Pro
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Sucker or cynic?

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By Maria Konnikova
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If you’re even marginally connected to the world of gaming and gambling—and, honestly, even if you’re not—there’s a good chance you’ve either read or heard about the McKay Coppins piece in The Atlantic last week about his year as a sports bettor.
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Kylie Jenner does poker

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By Maria Konnikova
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Have you seen Kylie? My message notifications had lit up overnight with versions of that message. What had Kylie done—or was the more pertinent question whom she had done it with? Or where? I had not seen and my mind could not even begin to speculate. Ah. Ok. Now I’d seen Kylie. Kylie Jenner Teaches You How to Play Poker, the triumphant Vanity Fair headline reads. And there she sits, smiling at the camera in front of green felt, piles of poker chips at her side, a card deck in front of her.
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The fight for our attention

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By Maria Konnikova
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On Monday, I landed back in New York, after two lovely (though often quite rainy and cold) weeks in Paris. Poker was played (I hope the EPT never stops returning to this stop; losing becomes a pleasure when your backup is a Parisian adventure);1 many wonderful meals were consumed; too many croissants were sampled; fantastic art was seen; friends and family were visited. All in all, a beautiful trip.
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