Arda Zuber

Arda Zuber is a data and product leader in Silicon Valley. He spent a decade being paid to find out where the money actually goes, then pointed the same habit at his own $1/$3 game and did not much like the answer. He is the author of Live to Fold Another Hand: The Recreational Player’s Code, which counts the 15 small, repeated decisions that drain a recreational bankroll — almost none of which happen at a showdown.

The Leaks That Don’t Feel Like Leaks

By Arda Zuber

September 16, 2026

For more than a decade, my job has been finding out how a process actually goes. Not how everyone believes it goes — how it goes. It is unglamorous work. You take something the whole building has an opinion about, you count it properly, and roughly once a quarter the count says something nobody wanted […]