Warren Buffett’s Latest Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter – Thro Poker (and PR) Lenses

by MaskedFinancier on April 29, 2011

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Following on from the encouraging success of my ebook launch I have become re-invigorated about Texas Holdem Investing and its potential. Hence I thought it an appropriate time to draft a new blog post. And given the upcoming Berkshire [...]

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Silicon Valley on Tilt by Paul Kedrosky – An Analysis

by MaskedFinancier on March 19, 2011

Paul Kedrosky has an interesting post at his Infectious Greed blog about why he thinks that Silicon Valley has gone on tilt. (http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/03/the_top_ten_sig.html) I did try to post a comment with my feedback on Paul’s site but someone (maybe Paul) didn’t think it worthwhile. So, in classic Internet tunnel-around fashion I decided to turn my [...]

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Free Texas Holdem Investing Ebook; Tweets and StockTwits

February 23, 2011

Still trying to get back into the groove with the site. I’ve finally “spun out” of my full time job and am setting up my very own mini investment bank – prop trading included. Managing to get some tweeting done but still short on the article inspiration. However, I have made some changes to the [...]

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Bill Gross (PIMCO), Kevin Fong (3Par) and Learning to Invest with Card Games

November 9, 2010

The Masked Financier has been out of the game for some time owing to many interesting things going on in the “work” sphere.  I have finally managed to negotiate an amicable exit from my long-term employer and am in the process of setting up a new venture in the financial services space.  Hence the hiatus [...]

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You Don’t Need to be a PhD or an Investment Professional To Learn To Invest (you could be a Texas Holdem Poker player)

August 23, 2010

“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 trouble in investing.” – Warren Buffett ==== I have followed with great interest some of the [...]

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Texas Holdem Investing – Free eBook Coming Soon

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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