Episode · Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova · 2025-12-10

Books mentioned on What Movies Get Right and Wrong About Poker

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Maria finally gets to reveal a project she’s been working on that’s been kept under wraps, and then it’s movie night on Risky Business! Nate and Maria talk about their favorite poker movies and explain why portrayals of poker for a movie audience often don’t get the game quite right.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   21 Bringing Down the House

   Ben Mezrich · at 14:40

   Discussed

   “the movie 21, which is based on the book Bring Down the House by Ben Mezri, that came out kind of right when I was getting into poker and like that I guess the book had come out, the movie was maybe later, right?”

   Nate Silver What Movies Get Right and Wrong About Poker 2025-12-10 Listen at 14:40

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