However, it is a closed system and all participants are visible, whereas poker has hidden surprises. It still has known rules. In real life (eg business, investing) the game rules are vague guidelines and you have power laws and pandemics that resemble chaos far more than any game.
> In game theory, a sequential game has perfect information if each player, when making any decision, is perfectly informed of all the events that have previously occurred, including the "initialization event" of the game (e.g. the starting hands of each player in a card game)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
I don’t disagree with your point about our capability to use that information, but that’s what the game is about. If you have perfect information and perfect capability to predict what a move will mean in the future, what’s the point of playing at all? Anyway just wanted to point out exactly what the comment you replied to means by perfect information.
Parent is using "perfect information" as a particular term-of-art in economics and game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
It's not perfect knowledge in the sense of Laplace's Demon where future values will be predicted with determinism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
Huh? Chess is fun, but deals in perfect information at all times. Poker teaches a person how to make decisions with imperfect information, which is how most life decisions will be made.