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9780470127315

The Poker Face of Wall Street

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470127315

  • ISBN10:

    0470127317

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-07-27
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

Wall Street is where poker and modern financeand the theory behind these "games"clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

Author Biography

Aaron Brown is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard and finance from the University of Chicago. He has been a finance professor and a trader as well as a portfolio manager and risk manager for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
The Art of Uncalculated Risk
Poker Basics
Finance Basics
A Brief History of Risk Denial
Pokernomics
Son of a Soft Money Bank
The once-bold mates of Morgan
The Games People Play
Who Got Game
Utility Belt
Annotated Bibliography
Index
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