Easy Quote by Maria Konnikova Download Open image “To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.” — Maria Konnikova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Easy Eye Poker Seems
Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics,… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
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While sophisticated plays can work in poker, if attempted by an inexperienced player, they'll usually backfire. Elaborate bluffs and check-raises are best left to… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Playing tricky poker doesn't have to mean making bizarre moves or playing way out of character. Rather, it's simply about taking advantage of what… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that half of poker is reading people. When you're reading well and you're making counterintuitive plays, a strictly math player… — Phil Hellmuth Copy Share Image
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human… — Charlie Ergen Copy Share Image
“All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics,… — Dan Harrington Copy Share
The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people on his… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Las vegas shouldn't exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“a failure to use all senses equals a scene not seen to its full potential, attention that has not been allocated properly, and subconscious… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
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It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
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People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
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I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it. — Ted McGinley Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't… — Kim Clijsters Copy Share Image
