# Polymath Poker
> https://polymathpoker.com

Paul Gibbons is an AI adoption strategist, keynote speaker, and author of 8 business books. He has also competed deep in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Polymath Poker is the intersection of those two careers.

## The Book

**Polymath Poker: Why AI Strategy Fails — Lessons from High-Stakes Poker** — /book
A field guide to judgment under uncertainty for leaders, founders, investors, and serious competitors. High-stakes poker has evolved from colourful characters and soul reads into a discipline grounded in game theory, probability, risk psychology, bankroll discipline, emotional control, and ruthless review of mistakes. Those are the habits AI strategy now requires.

Chapters:
1. The Hand Everyone Remembers — visible outcomes and hidden decision errors
2. The Poker Laboratory — luck, samples, and the amateur's delusion
3. Smart Is the Ante — why intelligence needs a harness
4. Stop Using McKinsey's Vocabulary — poker words that help strategists
5. The Game Has Changed — from solvers to cognitive athletics
6. You Have No Moat — the only durable moat in the AI economy is rate of learning
7. The Staking Economy and the Capital Structure of AI — circular capital, shared upside, and hidden systemic risk
8. Calling Consultants' Bluffs — bluffing, signalling, and strategic communication
9. The Adaptive Fold — survival means folding sooner so you can bet harder later

Key arguments:
- AI adoption is intelligence realization, not technology acquisition
- A clever AI model is useless without tools, memory, permissions, feedback, evals, governance, and human judgment
- There is no abstract right strategy — only the right move given who else is at your table
- If everyone is using the same consultant playbook, the playbook has no alpha

## Pages
- /book: Book landing page — chapters, argument, author, join the list
- /wsop-2026: Public WSOP 2026 rail — live schedule, results, public updates, and available action from SweatMe
- /polymath: Paul Gibbons — boardroom and card room biography
- /corpus: AI-powered knowledge corpus — Q&A across Paul's body of work
- /ai-tools: Poker decision tools and AI strategy calculators
- /tools/table-scout: WSOP Table Scout beta — upload a WSOP table screenshot, extract visible names and chip counts, and create a scouting sheet with research links

## Author
Paul Gibbons — AI adoption strategist, keynote speaker, author of 8 books on leadership, organizational change, and AI adoption. PhD in Organizational Behavior. Competed in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Ranked Top 50 globally in AI, Top 5 in Culture Change.

## Entity Links
- Author site: https://paulgibbonsadvisory.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139044022
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulggibbons/
- Hendon Mob: https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=132057
- Substack: https://substack.com/@thinkbiggerthinkbetter