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Eric Siu explains how poker mirrors business: both involve real stakes, rules, and incomplete information. Over many hands, you learn to read opponents' tells through timing and behavior patterns, then exploit them.

Eric Siu explains how poker mirrors business: both involve real stakes, rules, and incomplete information. Over many hands, you learn to read opponents' tells through timing and behavior patterns, then exploit them.
The beauty, I think, of poker is it's like a microcosm of business for sure, because you have real stakes. Like, you have a buy-in, you're playing, there's rules to the game type of thing going on. And then it's a game of imperfect information. Like, you know what you have, and I know— let's say I'm playing you heads up— like, I know your personality over 100 hands. I'll start to understand, oh, I can tell he's acting faster on the flop, turn, and river, and he's also losing. He might be more mad right now. So you start recognizing weird patterns