loop while ("profit") : Gambling, Software, and How to Win at Everything - Kerri Miller
Channel: Maitria Alex Harms
Date: 2016-06-14

If baseball is America's Pastime, then surely poker is America's Game. An iconic game of the Wild West, today it has emerged as a preeminent game of skill and intellect, dominated by mathematicians, stock brokers, and developers. What has software development brought to this American tradition, and what lessons does poker have to offer us in return? In this talk, I'll give you a crash course in poker, discuss statistics and odds, the psychological aspects of the game, how I've used poker to improve my development practices and my career, and how the skills of one profession can help us understand another.