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Penn: At the time when you at college, were you thinking about a Wall Street,
a finance-type of career, or a trading type of career?
a finance-type of career, or a trading type of career?
Brown: I've been trading for some time. The book that really got me into it was
Ed Thorp's Beat the Market. He was the mathematics professor who wrote,
Beat the Dealer on blackjack card counting. Sheen Kassouf was the co-author on
Beat the Market. In college I thought of poker, trading, and games like bridge,
backgammon and gin rummy, all in the same terms, things you could do to make a
living and have some fun, while you did whatever else you wanted. I never thought about getting a job.
Ed Thorp's Beat the Market. He was the mathematics professor who wrote,
Beat the Dealer on blackjack card counting. Sheen Kassouf was the co-author on
Beat the Market. In college I thought of poker, trading, and games like bridge,
backgammon and gin rummy, all in the same terms, things you could do to make a
living and have some fun, while you did whatever else you wanted. I never thought about getting a job.
Aaron Brown: The Poker Wizard of Wall Street
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif](Dead link: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/index.cfm/06102005-43909/) _By Aaron Brown_[/FONT]
TradingMarkets.com
June 20, 2008 4:24 PM ET
[FONT=Arial,]Aaron Brown has been involved in finance and speculation for decades - since his college days as a trader and poker player to his current "day job" with the hedge fund AQR Capital Management. In between he was head of mortgage securities for a New York investment bank, a teacher of finance at Fordham and Yeshiva Universities, and a risk management professional at a Who's Who of Wall Street firms including JP Morgan, Citigroup and, most recently, Morgan Stanley.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,]He is the author of The Poker Face of Wall Street, a book that is part autobiography, part critique of contemporary finance, and part exploration into the world of professional poker, where many of Aaron Brown's ideas about life, creativity, risk and ambition seem to merge. In a brief explanation of what led him to write the book, Brown reflects: "I wanted (the reader) to take my ideas as an integrated whole, not a series of contentions to be evaluated one at a time. I don't expect anyone to accept everything in the book, but I hope everyone who reads it looks at finance, risk and poker a little differently afterwards."[/FONT]
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