Former poker pro Liv Boeree examines how chance affects us, and whether success—in poker or elsewhere—is within our control. About Liv Boeree Liv Boeree is a writer and science communicator.

With her victory at EPT San Remo, Liv Boeree has become the third woman already in 2010 to have captured a major title. Boeree, a previous guest on ESPN Inside Deal, outlasted 1,239 other ...