Dear members—
Annie Duke’s career in poker began 30 years ago during a trip to Las Vegas, when her brother Howard wrote a list of hands she should play on a napkin. For a while, playing off that list worked for her—until it didn’t. Duke, who eventually went on to win the World Series of Poker, was approaching risk with a faulty model, one that had been designed for a beginner but that she’d come to believe was key to her success.
The final episode of our member-only show RISK covers Duke’s path to success in poker, which ultimately came down to understanding the difference between risk and uncertainty, and between risk models and heuristics.
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