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Peter Adkison — Building Gen Con, Empowering Game Designers, and the Thrill of Gathering the Gaming Tribe (#30)

Think Like A Game Designer

CHAPTER

The Importance of Strategy in Gaming

Poker tournament poker theory became a huge part of my business strategy. You don't want to necessarily go bankrupt even if it's a good quote unquote bet, right? The third of the time you're going to lose your money or whatever. We had over a thousand employees when I left. But that's because we had a retail arm and retail has lots of employees. And then you start to scale up again and it gets into the 30s or maybe the hundreds.

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