How playing poker can help you make decisions

How playing poker can help you make decisions

Podcast: Poker is the game we need now

On a mission to understand the nature of chance, psychologist Maria Konnikova decided to master a game that “involves just enough luck and just enough skill to resemble the messiness of reality”. Konnikova told the Nature Podcast how poker can help people make better decisions — and is just what we need in these uncertain times.

Nature Podcast | 27 min listen
Read more: Nature’s review of Konnikova’s new book by fellow scientist and poker player Liv Boeree. (2 min read)Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.