Playing Cards While the Oil Spews

The devil on my shoulder told me it was okay to blog about poker while the Gulf of Mexico is filling up with oil ... and I listened.

The 2010 World Series of Poker is underway.  Accordingly, I thought I'd pass on some poker news that might be of interest to readers of this blog.

Mint.com has an article on why some Wall Street firms are recruiting poker players.

Meanwhile, a recent book review brought The Poker Face of Wall Street to my attention.  The book is written by Aaron Brown, an executive director at Morgan Stanley (among other things), who is quoted as saying that "finance can only be understood as a gambling game."

Finally, over at The Huffington Post, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, provides an excerpt of his recent book wherein he describes "the lessons that I learned from playing poker and how I apply them in the business world."

SJP