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The Poker Face of Wall Street By: Aaron Brown Normal price: 16.99 Our price: 14.44 + postage Bargain: save £2.55 ! Product code: 23007 ISBN: 0471770574 304 pages Format: Hb Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2006 There are no reviews available for this book

Description of The Poker Face of Wall Street

An engaging look at how the culture of poker and modern finance on Wall Street are inextricably linked Since the 1800s, the world of poker and world of commerce and finance have lived in each other's long historical shadow. Truth is, even today it's hard to pull the two apart. The Poker Face of Wall Street captures the color of both of these worlds and highlights the real lessons that risk-takers on Wall Street and the high rollers in Vegas can learn from one another. Financial professional and lifelong poker player Aaron Brown knows how fine the line is between risk-taking skill and ruin. Now, in The Poker Face of Wall Street, Brown enlightens and bedazzles serious risk-takers about the odds and skills underlying their mercurial crafts, and shows where the cultures of poker and Wall Street meet. Whether you're walking the walk on Wall Street, or talking the talk on the Vegas Strip, this entertaining book reveals why the modern game of poker and modern finance have more similarities than differences, and discusses what this means for those on both sides of the aisle. The Poker Face of Wall Street recounts how Wall Street has always been where modern finance and poker - and the theory behind these "games" - clash head on. It explores how in both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heartbeat, and why neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. The Poker Face of Wall Street is a one-of-a-kind book that will show readers the real meaning of risk and reward. Financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a must read, as will poker players searching for an edge by applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

The Poker Face of Wall Street - Chapter headings

Foreword Preface 1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk 2. Poker Basics 3. Finance Basics 4. A Brief History of Risk Denial 5. Pokernomics 6. Son of a Soft Money Bank 7. The once-bold mates of Morgan 8. The Games People Play 9. Who Got Game 10. Utility Belt 11. Annotated Bibliography

Authobiography of Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown, MBA (New York, NY), is a columnist for Wilmott, the leading journal serving the quantitative finance community, and Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. A well-known Wall Street quant, Brown is also a lifelong serious poker player who stays in regular touch with the top academic poker researchers. On Wall Street, he has been involved in trading and portfolio management with such firms as Prudential Insurance, JP Morgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard (where he played against the future richest man in the world and a future President of the United States) and finance from the University of Chicago (where he played against two future and one current Nobel Prize winners). Since graduation, he has played against Wall Street tycoons and World Champion professionals.