Lee Davy takes what he has learned in Brene Brown’s Gifts of Imperfections: Let go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to be And Embrace Who You Are and applies it to the world of poker.

Italian poker player, Andrea Dato, and I are sitting in a restaurant in San Remo talking about life. Dato starts talking about his past, specifically how he would alter certain facts when recalling hand histories during conversations with his peers. Dato wanted to learn from his mistakes, but he didn’t want his peers to leave with the impression that he was a terrible poker player.

He was smiling at the idiocy of his behaviour.

I was smiling too, because, at that moment, I wanted to be his friend.