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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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  • Summary

  • Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.

    Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.

    Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.

    Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.
    2024 Pushkin Industries & iHeartMedia, Inc. 2024
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Episodes
  • Mistakes and Unknowns: Election Polls, Poker Tournaments, and the NBA Finals

    Mistakes and Unknowns: Election Polls, Poker Tournaments, and the NBA Finals
    Jun 6 2024

    This week on Risky Business, Nate gives his analysis of what Trump’s guilty verdict may mean for the election, Maria shares the biggest mistakes she’s seen at the World Series of Poker so far, and Nate reveals an interesting ripple in the sports betting ecosystem ahead of the NBA Finals.

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    “The Leap” from Maria Konnikova

    “Silver Bulletin” from Nate Silver

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    49 mins
  • WSOP Kickoff, Crypto ETFs, and Airfare Refunds

    WSOP Kickoff, Crypto ETFs, and Airfare Refunds
    May 30 2024

    Nate and Maria are in Vegas for the first week of the World Series of Poker. On today’s show, they share their top tips for acing the World Series, explain the politics behind last week’s approval of a new kind of crypto ETF, and unpack new rules for airline delays.

    Further Reading:

    “SEC Unexpectedly Expedites ETH ETF w/ Eric Balchunas” from Galaxy Brains

    “Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees” from USDOT

    To Buy Into Maria’s WSOP Action:

    Visit “StakeKings”

    Or “PokerStake”

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    “The Leap” from Maria Konnikova

    “Silver Bulletin” from Nate Silver

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    41 mins
  • A Backup for Biden

    A Backup for Biden
    May 23 2024

    Nate and Maria start with something light: p(doom) and the possibility that AI will bring about the end of life as we know it. Then, Nate breaks down the news about the presidential debates and makes a shocking recommendation to the Democratic Party. And – most importantly – our hosts preview the upcoming World Series of Poker in Vegas.

    Further Reading:

    “OpenAI: Exodus” by Zvi Mowshowitz

    “Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden” by Ezra Klein

    “21 Tips for Acing the World Series of Poker” by Nate Silver

    To Buy Into Maria’s WSOP Action:

    Visit “StakeKings”

    Or “PokerStake”

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    “The Leap” from Maria Konnikova

    “Silver Bulletin” from Nate Silver

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    43 mins
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