Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold
Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold By Mason Levinson Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
- BRANDON ADAMS Brandon Adams taught undergrad economics courses at Harvard for nine years in game theory, behavioral finance, and international macroeconomics. He's a regular in the biggest poker cash games and tournaments, and has appeared on Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, and multiple televised final tables.
- Brandon Adams is ranked #44 overall on RotoGrinders for Daily Fantasy Sports. Brandon was Harvard University lecturer in economics for nine years. His career live tournament poker earnings exceed $3.5 million.
- 'With a clear and cold ey, BA helps chart a course through the sweetest and nastiest inflection points — for degenerates, Harvard MBAs, and not a few of the rest of us.' – Jim McManus, author of two of most influential and successful poker books of all time: Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker.
- Harvard professor Brandon Adams proved to his Poker Masters opponents that smart guys finish first this weekend. The former Full Tilt pro took the series lead after scooping Event #2 for $400,000.
Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold
By Mason Levinson
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
'They've essentially been the survivors in the system, a very difficult system where 95 percent of people lose money,' the 30-year-old Adams, who plays at the site, said in a telephone interview. 'Anyone smart enough and disciplined enough to survive that system is probably going to do very well in the trading world.'
An increasing number of hedge funds and brokerages are scrutinizing professional poker to find talent and analytical tools, according to financial recruiters including Options Group, a New York-based executive-search company. Susquehanna International Group LLP, the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based options and equity trading company, uses poker to teach strategic thinking.
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