Q And why are you so good at poker? What makes a good poker player?
A So, um, unlike a lot of my colleagues in poker, um, I had a lot of great mentors. I would have flopped multiple times. There were close moments, but I had people that were better than me pull me through and coach me. That was super important. Um, but my coaches and a lot of the people that are better than me at poker are just naturally one 40 IQ plus people. They're just, they're geniuses. And I realized really quick that I was smart, but not as smart as them, and I started to kind of feel my own personal, like, boundaries. I mean, we're talking about, like, basically world-class chess, is what, what I like to think about it as. Um, it's, there are, there's a lot of similarities, uh, with enumeration and combinatorics, uh, the difference is that chess, you know all of the pieces and positions, and in poker, there's hidden information. Which brings in variables, and there's also variable outcomes because, you know, the cards are basically dealt their in. So, I realized that I was never gonna be, like, that grand master of chess, and there's a big problem with that because the best player at the poker table is the one that makes all the money. Um, the second, so it's like, it's a logarithmic scale. It's like, the best player makes, you know, twice as much as the second best player who makes twice as much as the third best player, and then everybody else doesn't make anything. The…
AI assessment note: “I had a lot of great mentors. I would have flopped multiple times.”