And a poker player! Not just a poker player, but someone for whom poker inspired brilliant insights into human decisionmaking, someone who considered it the ultimate game for approximating the strategic challenges of life. I mean, think of John von Neumann! One of the great polymaths of the 20th century, father of the computer, one of the inventors of the hydrogen bomb, the creator of game theory. To my mind, the journey was well motivated: Of course people would understand that poker was an important way to learn about decisionmaking. And first among them is the very one I’m seeing from a stricken Baba Anya: equating poker with gambling. The world of poker is laden with misconceptions.
