If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! “Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into [...]

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Texas Holdem Investing – Free eBook Coming Soon

by MaskedFinancier on August 9, 2010

To my band of dedicated readers: Firstly, thanks for spending some of your valuable time reading the material at TexasHoldemInvesting.com. I’ve gone through a hiatus in posting and tweeting recently. The main reason for this was that I have exited my full time job to start my own financial advisory and investment business. It has [...]

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Practice (with Poker?) Makes Perfect (Trading)

April 7, 2010

The Kirk Report once again produces an impressive post entitled “Reading Less, Practicing More & Getting Experience” that reinforces the need to practice actually putting capital at risk to learn trading effectively. The thrust of the article brings into focus many of the benefits that the Texas Holdem Investing method brings to learning how to [...]

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Garry Kasparov – Poker is better than chess to learn about taking risks

February 2, 2010

Garry Kasparov, the legendary chess champion has written a fascinating article entitled “The Chess Master and the Computer” in the New York Review of Books. The main subject of the article is a precis of a book entitled “Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind” which is written by Diego Rasskin-Gutman. However, despite the [...]

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Kiplinger – Texas Holdem Helps Your Investing – But Don’t Play “Free” Poker

January 11, 2010

There have been a number of articles about poker and investing since the start of 2010 which is always great reinforcement for the Texas Holdem Investing concept. Kiplinger recently posted three articles about poker and investing which I felt were very comprehensive on the subject.  This post reviews the Kiplinger articles through the lense of [...]

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TexasHoldemInvesting.com – Popular Posts & Pages in 2009

December 31, 2009

As part of the year-end activities at TexasHoldemInvesting.com this post contains the top blog articles and online book pages from this 2009. Top 10 Blog Posts Beating the Odds with (Texas Holdem) Poker Investing – Jeff Yass and Susquehanna The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Investment Banker – Steven Begleiter David Einhorn – Hedge Fund [...]

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TexasHoldemInvesting.com – 2009 Review and 2010 Objectives

December 31, 2009

All good investment practitioners should review performance at the end of each year compared to expectations at the start of the year and set goals for the next year.  My expectations for 2009 were low since I hadn’t even started despite 2 years of thinking about it, so that is the benchmark.  So here goes [...]

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“This Time It’s Different” – It never is – In both poker and investing (ref Kid Dynamite)

December 30, 2009

Kid Dynamite of the Friday In Vegas blog posted an excellent article – “Synthetic CDO’s, Spanish 21 and Sports Betting” (also posted on SeekingAlpha and Clusterstock) – which uses gambling, sports betting, and even references to Susquehanna in an effort to explain why perhaps Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions are not totally at fault [...]

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Texas Holdem Investing – Tweets Update – 2009-12-13

December 13, 2009

Two Texas Holdem Investor titans working together Vs Donald Trump – Carl Icahn & Andy Beal – what a poker game! http://bit.ly/6A1rSb Suckers of the Future Groomed With Stock Game – they should be groomed with poker to learn about risk properly – http://bit.ly/7QI1hs Like a good poker player, the best investors avoid playing when [...]

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Hedge Fund Managers & Poker – Texas Holdem Hedgies (guest post at MarketFolly)

November 25, 2009

This article was originally a guest post at MarketFolly.  Many thanks to Jay and MarketFolly for the kind opportunity to post at such a widely-read site. The hedge fund literature is full of references to the poker exploits of some of the great hedge fund managers. This part of hedge fund lore is one of [...]

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