Aaron Brown – The Poker Face of Wall Street

Author:Aaron Brown

Named one of BusinessWeek’s top 10 paperbacks for summer reading: “The Poker Face of Wall Street is a sprawling, idiosyncratic, and sometimes poker-obsessed work filled with nuggets about American history and finance.”

The Poker Face of Wall Street

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Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

Chapter 1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk.

Chapter 2. Poker Basics.

Chapter 3. Finance Basics.

Chapter 4. A Brief History of Risk Denial.

Chapter 5. Pokernomics.

Chapter 6. Son of a Soft Money Bank.

Chapter 7. The once-bold mates of Morgan.

Chapter 8. The Games People Play.

Chapter 9. Who Got Game.

Chapter 10. Utility Belt.

Annotated Bibliography.