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The Poker Player's Guide

Books that develop the quantitative intuition and mental frameworks poker players rely on.

1. 1

   The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

   Michael Craig

   An account of billionaire Andy Beal’s high-stakes poker matches against a group of elite professional players in Las Vegas.

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2. 2

   Liar's Poker

   Michael Lewis

   Lewis recounts his years at Salomon Brothers, examining the culture and excesses of Wall Street's bond trading in the 1980s.

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3. 3

   The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

   Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien

   Introduces foundational mental models, including first principles, inversion, and probabilistic thinking, to improve reasoning and decisions.

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4. 4

   Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

   Simon Singh

   Traces the centuries-long effort to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, culminating in Andrew Wiles’s breakthrough.

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