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Thursday, June 23 • 5:15pm - 5:45pm
Keynote - Games Reveal Decision Biases: Poker - a Lab for Studying Irrationality, w/ Annie Duke

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When Annie abruptly changed careers from behavioral scientist to poker player, she was mindful of the challenges that kept many poker players from continually learning and improving. Along the way to becoming a champion player, she made some valuable connections between common decision-making errors and learning (or lack thereof). She will share some of what she learned and habits she formed, and how she has applied it in her non-profit, HowIDecide.org. How I Decide is particularly interested in using entertaining games to create and improve healthy habit formation for decision making in youth. They teach how to decide…not what to decide.

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Annie Duke

Co-founder - HowIDecide.org, World Champion Poker Player
Annie Duke has won over $4 million in tournament poker. She has won a World Series of Poker bracelet, the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She has written four books (with a fifth on the way, about learning and decision... Read More →


Thursday June 23, 2016 5:15pm - 5:45pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium