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.

• 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.Index.

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