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Um, what else we got going on?

So coming up on the show today is we talked about it a little bit last week.

Author Maria Conakova, she wrote a book. Well well she was already a bestseller for the New York Times

bestseller writing two time bestseller what's that two time bestseller yeah and then

she she was reading about game theory and then that

got her into reading about poker and she was like fuck I'm gonna become a

professional poker player so she got under the sort of she she She was looking, kind of going through some life variance, it seems like,

she was kind of going through some life variance, it seems like, and she wanted to understand it more and somebody told her to look in a game theory and

You know I think that kind of naturally it will obviously talk to her but that that kind of naturally, will obviously talk to her,

but that kind of naturally goes with her way

of thinking as a psychologist

and some of the books that she had written about.

And someone told her to look into poker and we'll find out if she was friends with Eric Seidell before or she reached out to him randomly, but that's who she used as her mentor.

Yeah, I was going to say under I was going to try to use a big word under the

toilage is that the word?

Toodle it's tootelage. It's Tootle, oh like Tudor.

What did you even say?

Toilage?

Yeah, we'll go with Toilage? We'll go with toilage.

Under the toilage of Errik Seidel, she ends up going down to PCA and winning some tournament

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