Day: August 23, 2016

Poker

Don’t let confirmation bias affect your play

Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psychological literature, connotes the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations or a hypothesis in hand. In other words, confirmation bias is interpreting information to match already held beliefs to prove one’s bias. Someone may think an older, […]

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Washington

Venetian DeepStack still shines in Las Vegas

The main event at Venetian’s DeepStack Extravaganza III in Las Vegas went to Jonathan Turner of Myrtle Beach, S.C., earning him $536K. Ukraine’s Artem Metalidi took home $330K for second and Dan Heimiller of Las Vegas received $238K for third. The $5K buy-in drew 537 players, creating a $2.4M prize pool, easily surpassing the $2M […]

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