Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
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Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Poker is meant to be enjoyed.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.