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Self-made billionaire says she could have saved ‘10 years of losses’ if she had learned this skill sooner from playing poker

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If you bet money on last night’s Super Bowl, one self-made billionaire said there might be a lesson there. Jenny Just, cofounder of financial services firm PEAK6 Investments, is a believer that gambling (specifically at the poker table) is a crash course in making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information—a skill that she said could have sped up her success.

“I think I could have saved 10 years of losses off my career if I had learned poker sooner,” Just recently told CNBC.

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