Table of contents for The poker face of Wall Street / Aaron Brown.

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Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 The Art of Uncalculated Risk
	
	Risk
	Risk Rules
	Finance and Gambling
	An Example of the Trading Game
	Gambling and Finance
	Opponents
	Hold' em Aces
Truth
2 Poker Basics
	
	Poker Hands
	Betting
	Limits
	Mechanics
	You gotta know when to ...	
	And He Answers: "Omaha"
	Stud
	Draw
	Basic Strategies
	Calling
3 Finance Basics
	Econospeak
	Commercial Banks	
	Investment Banks
	Exchanges
	Theory	
	Financial Challenges
4 A Brief History of Risk Denial
	I'm Shocked - Shocked to Find that Gambling is Going on in Here!
	Hedging Bets
	A Random Walk Down Wall Street
	Foreign Interest
	Futures and Options
	The Crash of '87
Flashback: Gardena and the Single Heterosexual Male
	No Stud-Horse Allowed
	The Subculture
	Never Ask of Money Spent, Where the Spender Thinks It Went
	A Miniature Global Economy Laid Out on a Baize Oval Table
	Nor Tie to Earths to Come, Nor Action New
	You Took Little Children Away From the Sun and the Dew ... For a Little Handful of Pay on a Few Saturday Nights
	
5 Pokernomics
	Law and Money
	Dutch Treat
	The Trouble in Scotland ... and New Orleans
	Savage Money
	Networks
	Adventurers and Planters	
	Pokerbank
Flashback: My First Hand of Commercial Poker
	Cheating
	The Betting
	The Draw
6 Son of a Soft Money Bank
	
The Stormy, Husky, Brawling Laughter of Youth
	Triage
	A Tall Bold Slugger Set Vivid Against the Little Soft Cities
Flashback: The Education of a Poker Player
	Frank's Gradnma
	More Games and the People Who Play Them
	Harvard
	Pangs of Conscience
	Meeting Mr. Dixie
	The Book
7 The once-bold mates of Morgan
	The Crash of '79
	Bridge Bums, Chicago School and the Pit
	Withered These Latter-Days to Leaf-Size From Lack of Action
	History's Beaten the Hazard
	And He Burned Them as Waste Paper
Flashback: The Education of a Trader
	Pit
	The Options Floor
	Playing the Hand
	Parity, Verticals and Calendars
	Bonds
	Poker at Lepercq
8 The Games People Play
	When Luck Has Something to Do With It
	God Gave You Guts: Don't Let Him Down
	Guessing Games
	Master of the Bluff
	Bluffing Mathematics
	Game Fact	
	Small Mindedness
Flashback: Liar's Poker
	How to Succeed in Trading
	Liar's Rules
	Cooperative Liar's
	Destroy the Game
9 Who Got Game
	This Guy Says the Horse Needs Race
	Rocket Scientist
	Chairman of the Board
	Learn by Experiment What Argument Taught
	Those Who Have Knowledge, Don't Predict - Those Who Predict, Don't Have Knowledge
	If I Have to Fall, May it Be From a High Place
	Ivory Tower Risk
	Do Not Limp Before the Lame
	Fierce as Bluff King Hal
	Next Time Stop at the Ethyl Pump
	My Way is Multiway
	Do Traders Care?
	Learning About Learning
	Hammurabi's Rules of Poker
10 Utility Belt	
	I Ponder the Psychology that Roots Them in Their Place
	Safer Than Suicide
	Five Out of Ten to Pass
	Aplomb in the Midst of Irrational Things
	Let's Make a Deal
	More Patient Than Crags, Tides, and Stars: Innumerable, Patient as the Darkness of Night
11 Annotated Bibliography
	History and Meaning of Poker
	History and Meaning of Gambling
	Finance and Gambling
	Specific Sources
	

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Stocks.
Finance.
Risk.
Poker.