Raising the Stakes: Professional Poker Strategies for Winning in Business and Life

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Pasha Esfandiary

Raising the Stakes

Professional Poker Strategies for Winning in Business and Life

Pasha Esfandiary

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English

Advantage Media Group
30 July 2025

Investment & securities; Advice on careers & achieving success; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Poker; Gambling: theories & methods

Most of us don't play to win in life-we play not to lose. So argues Pasha Esfandiary, who rose from humble, unhappy origins to found a wildly successful company and achieve happiness using techniques he learned playing high-stakes poker.

In this riveting narrative-part memoir, part personal development guide-he shares the secrets and strategies top poker players use to make optimal decisions under intense pressure. In colorful language, Esfandiary demonstrates how poker pros control emotion, read people, leverage money, and weigh risk versus reward. His clear, practical steps for applying these and other techniques to living allow readers to establish and meet goals with the determination of a poker champ. ""Lifetime expected value,"" the touchstone of top poker players, can be used to make better decisions on a daily basis, building our expertise and intuition.

Learn how to go all-in in every part of life, from business and investing to health and family, with such proven poker strategies. Using compelling examples from his storied poker career, Esfandiary shows readers how to get comfortable with risk, make better decisions, raise the stakes, and play to win.

By: Pasha Esfandiary
Imprint: Advantage Media Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798891880238
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

PASHA ESFANDIARY grew up in San Jose, the son of a single father who gave up a fortune to immigrate to the US with his two sons. After a troubled childhood, Esfandiary was broke and unhappy until he stumbled onto the world of professional poker. He studied poker and personal development intensely and rose to play some of the highest-stakes games in the world. Applying poker strategies to life, he overcame obstacles to marry Jessica, the love of his life; amass a nine-figure real estate portfolio; and found Evoke Capital, a rapidly growing real estate company, with 2,500 units under management as of this printing. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their adorable twins, Zoe and Taj.