For poker players, understanding variance comes easily. It becomes second nature. On some days, aces get cracked and draws miss, while on other days, you leave with a bruise under your eye from ...

Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of “The Biggest Bluff.” She is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker, the author of two previous New York Times best-sellers, and a ...

For poker players, understanding variance comes easily. It becomes second nature. On some days, aces get cracked and draws miss, while on other days, you leave with a bruise under your eye from ...

Maria Konnikova graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, earned her doctorate in psychology from Columbia and has written two New York Times best-sellers — “The Confidence Game” and “Mastermind: How to ...

MARIA KONNIKOVA, an author and Ph.D in psychology had a run of bad luck, but oddly found that poker was the perfect vehicle for her to explore her interest chance, skill, and human behavior. She went ...

“Real Time” host Bill Maher last night welcomed “The Confidence Game” author Maria Konnikova to determine, once and for all, whether or not Donald Trump is, in fact, a con artist. Konnikova told Maher ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bonnie Marcus writes about women's empowerment and leadership. Konnikova took a break from the EPTParis tournament in February to ...

Poker is a woman’s game. New York Times best-selling author Maria Konnikova may have been the first to say this because, well, poker has almost always been a man’s game. There have been some ...

Ed. Note: This interview with Maria Konnikova originally appeared in The Forward on June 11, 2019. Her book, “The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win,” comes out ...

While writing The Confidence Game, her new book on con men, Maria Konnikova found how social media and oversharing have made scams easier While researching her book on con artists, Maria Konnikova ...