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The Poker Player: Vanessa Selbst and John D. Mayer

How do you deal with being dealt a bad hand? Personality psychologist John D. Mayer gets some tips from star poker player Vanessa Selbst about how to avoid a bad read, limping in, and when to bluff the pot. And above all: how to maintain focus without appearing that you are.

Vanessa Selbst is a professional poker player and the highest earning female poker player of all time, with more than $8 million in winnings. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Vanessa has been playing poker for more than ten years. Selbst hopes to earn enough money to eventually fund a foundation dedicated to the creation of national civil rights projects.

John D. Mayer is a professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and a key innovator in intelligence research. He has written more than 125 scientific articles, books, and psychological tests, including the internationally known Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT™). He has lectured around the world and has appeared on NPR and BBC-TV. His work has been covered in The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. His new book Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives is published this February. He lives in New Hampshire.











When: Sun., Mar. 16, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Where: Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St.
212-620-5000
Price: $25; $22.50 members
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How do you deal with being dealt a bad hand? Personality psychologist John D. Mayer gets some tips from star poker player Vanessa Selbst about how to avoid a bad read, limping in, and when to bluff the pot. And above all: how to maintain focus without appearing that you are.

Vanessa Selbst is a professional poker player and the highest earning female poker player of all time, with more than $8 million in winnings. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Vanessa has been playing poker for more than ten years. Selbst hopes to earn enough money to eventually fund a foundation dedicated to the creation of national civil rights projects.

John D. Mayer is a professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and a key innovator in intelligence research. He has written more than 125 scientific articles, books, and psychological tests, including the internationally known Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT™). He has lectured around the world and has appeared on NPR and BBC-TV. His work has been covered in The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. His new book Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives is published this February. He lives in New Hampshire.

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