Author gives financial pros, poker players tips of the trade
Pokernomics,” the title of the fifth chapter of this extraordinary and tantalizing tour de force on high finance and gambling, would have been a more fitting title for the entire tome. The one given it by Morgan Stanley executive and poker adept Aaron Brown, The Poker Face of Wall Street , risks suggesting to potential readers that it is just a rhapsody on the same ‘’law of the jungle'’ theme
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Useful poker information:
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- RIDER BACK (TM) - A brand of playing cards that feature a bicycle rider on the back of the cards. Often used in home games. Compare: BEE No. 92.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- ALL-IN - To have all of one's chips in the pot. A player who is all-in cannot be forced out of the pot by more betting, but is only eligible to win that portion of the pot he has contributed to. Generally, a SIDE POT is created each time a player is all-in.
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