High stakes become everyday stakes—if you’re Sameh Elamawy.

Remko Rinkema sits down with Sameh Elamawy for an episode of Face the Ace that looks behind the high-stakes façade.

Elamawy, a Silicon Valley executive, shares how his rapid ascent into bigger and bigger poker games made enormous risks seem almost mundane.

According to Elamawy, “enormous stakes can start feeling surprisingly normal,” a sentiment likely foreign to most of us.