{"id":8193,"date":"2018-08-12T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:30:10","slug":"nyt-konnikovas-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/nyt-konnikovas-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Konnikova’s Long Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you remember Maria Konnikova? The young researcher who has turned a love for science into a love for cards. Luck has always fascinated her. And so, she wanted to write about it. Luck, she argued, was pure randomness. She may have been right at the time, but as she started studying the cards, it turned out that randomness can be mastered and subdued to one\u2019s own fancy, even if only up to a point.<\/p>\n
In her latest profile put together by New York Contributor Claudia Dreifus<\/a>, Ms. Konnikova talks at length about her decision to plunge into poker without really having any prior knowledge. But the perennial prey of her philosophical quest \u2013 luck, has been too strong to resist. And the search has grown into a passion, and the passion, into a second job.<\/p>\n Ms. Konnikova has admitted that she had no understanding of how poker worked before she met with her teacher, a Hall of Fame professional, Erik Seidel. Mr. Seidel was polite and to-the-point saying that he will take her up as a student. Ms. Konnikova seemed thrilled.<\/p>\n She quickly started picking up the game. Not only that, she\u2019d allocate 9 hours of her day just to poker. Unpicking odds, mastering the outcomes and introducing some order to the whole wild affair of luck. <\/p>\nMs. Konnikova Has the Felt<\/h2>\n