The Great Lantern, by Maria Konnikova

Writer before she was a poker player, Maria Konnikova He arrived at the card game game from the drive of every narrator who wants to approach a new narrative setting to soak up the context. We add to the matter his doctorate in psychology and we find a sophisticated version of the Pelayo Russian version.

For the initial rush, Maria read books on everything that can be disclosed around poker. His interest in that balance between chance and the ability to make psychology the essential weapon with which to play bad cards or invite the opponent to think otherwise. Some say that the game it boils down to math and there are those who know that, above all, the question is, precisely, to add and subtract wills on either side of the table.

In 2016 Maria Konnikova became interested in the role that luck plays in our lives and to what extent everything that happens to us can be controlled. To find out, he decided to dive into the world of poker from scratch and see if the dynamics of this game were useful in our day-to-day lives. She could not suspect that in a very few months she would go from not knowing how many cards there is in a deck to becoming an international poker champion and winning more than three hundred thousand dollars in a fiercely competitive and predominantly male arena.

While we accompany the author through the ins and outs of the game to the top, we discover everything that poker is capable of revealing about human behavior, decision-making, the management of frustration or the role of chance in our lives.

Between the epic adventure and the best popular literature, Konnikova opens the door to a fascinating world and invites us to get to know each other more and play our cards in the best possible way. A brilliant storytelling that has become one of America's literary surprises.

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