About

I started as a professional poker player.

What initially attracted me to poker was competition and strategy. What kept me there were the deeper questions.

Poker is one of the few environments where reality constantly provides feedback. Good decisions can lose. Bad decisions can win. Ego gets punished. Certainty gets challenged. Few places in life will argue with you that honestly.

Over time I became fascinated by the broader patterns hiding beneath the game — the same forces that shape poker also shape business, history, relationships, organizations, and everyday life. Information and its asymmetries. Deception and the price of a credible lie. Incentives, equilibrium, exploitation. Once you see them at a table, you see them everywhere.

Beyond Range is where I work those ideas out in the open. The library is the strategy, built from first principles and marked honestly where the verification isn't finished yet. The Forces are the argument underneath it. The Laboratory and the trainer are where you test yourself against it.

Poker remains the laboratory. The lessons extend far beyond the game.

The part I care most about now is the part most players hide from: the mental game — staying clear-headed while the money is live. If that's the work you want to do, that's what Private Counsel is for.