Dylan Weisman is a professional poker player and executive performance coach. He has been playing poker professionally in some capacity since he was 16. While studying probability theory at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dylan became more in tune with the non-game theory aspects of what it takes to be a solid poker professional, such as self-knowledge, self-care, emotional control, and life sustainability. Most recently, Dylan has grinded from $2/$4 to $10/$20 online, and he’s played in the largest live PLO cash games in Las Vegas. Recent notable wins include the U.S. Poker Open 25k and a 2021 WSOP bracelet. On the business side of things, after graduating with a degree in financial math and statistics from the University of California Santa Barbara, Dylan started his career in analytics and has done it all from project management and operations, to large-scale product developments. Throughout his career, Dylan was drawn to problems relating to operational efficiencies - in other words, human-centered problems. Poker was all about using analytics on people and he was using those skills into business. Today, Dylan focuses his time on product development and executive performance coaching. His clients range anywhere from CEOs of mid-level startups, Esports athletes, and managers at fortune 500 companies. Additionally, he consults with his portfolio companies on operational efficiencies, hiring practices, and digital analytics infrastructure.

What you can expect to hear on this episode:

What you can take from your poker game and apply to building and executing a business

What winning the game of life is really all about

Developing the superpower of empathy to find success and change the world

Searching for solutions to a poker feud

Different coaching for different types of poker players

Hiring and running a team and how it relates to poker

Are poker players built for business?

I hope you find this episode as fun and informative as we have. Dylan Weisman is winning the game of life!

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Connect with Dylan “Dr. GTO” Weisman:

Website: https://www.dylanweisman.com/

Instagram: @dr.gto

Twitter: @Dweisman13

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