Applying poker strategy to your life

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Professional poker player Annie Duke shuffles her chips during the US$50,000 buy-in HORSE event of World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Monday, June 25, 2007.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Professional poker player Annie Duke shuffles her chips during the US$50,000 buy-in HORSE event of World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Monday, June 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Guest: Annie Duke

After two decades, champion poker player ANNIE DUKE is used to the uncertainty and high-pressure decision-making that comes with the game. Now she’s taken the lessons she’s learned from playing at high stakes tables around the world, along with her graduate studies in cognitive psychology, and applied them to life in general. Her new book is Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. She comes in to talk with Marty about her career, her interest in psychology, and how to make better choices.

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