Women’s Chess Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade discusses parallels between chess and gambling, teaching kids probabilistic thinking through poker, embracing risk-taking, accountability, and exploring new terrains in midlife with a focus on strategic thinking and calculated risk.

Nate and Maria debate Biden's debate performance, suggesting he should drop out. They discuss potential successors, unity in the Democratic Party, and the impact of debates on polls and candidates' performance.

Nate Silver unveils his 2024 election model predicting a potential Trump win. They discuss challenges for Biden, insurance pricing risks, and navigating insurance challenges. The conversation delves into risk perception, forecasting errors, and decision-making misunderstandings.

This episode dives into Macron's snap elections in France, the link between heat waves and climate change communication, and the looming Sriracha shortage. The key theme is assessing long-term risks and strategies for addressing global challenges.

Debates on Justice Sotomayor's retirement, MLB player banned for betting, Roaring Kitty's market influence. Ethical concerns in sports betting, GameStop's resurgence. Meme stocks impact on financial markets, reflections on poker events.

Maria Konnikova shares poker tournament mistakes, Nate Silver analyzes Trump's guilty verdict impact on polls, and sports betting insights for the NBA Finals are revealed on Risky Business.

Nate and Maria share World Series of Poker tips, crypto ETF approval politics, and new airline delay rules. They discuss poker decision-making, business growth strategies, and political implications of the SEC's ETH approval.

Nate and Maria discuss the end of the world by AI, presidential debates, and a shocking Democratic Party suggestion. They then dive into a preview of the World Series of Poker in Vegas, sharing tips and insights for acing the tournament.

Professional poker player and author Maria Konnikova shares lessons from a recent poker tournament in Monte Carlo. Nate Silver discusses the implications of RFK Jr.'s polling numbers for Biden and Trump. They also delve into the gender pay gap in sports using Caitlin Clark's story.

Launching on May 16, Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions. Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro. Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk. Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.