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Poker Night on Wall Street – Watch Wall Street’s Heavyweights Tangle at the Green Felt
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2013-10-23 06:28
Bloomberg Television’s “Poker Night on Wall Street”, a poker show hosted by Trish Regan, featuring some of the biggest Wall Street tycoons tangling at the green felt, can only be good for the game. After all, it gives it another jolt into the mainstream because people who have never really thought about actually buying into a game themselves will doubtlessly be interested in how the top investors’ Wall Street techniques translate into poker strategy.
The
poker tournament will feature a single buy-in of $50k and it will take place at Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ.
The participants are Jim Chanos from Kynikos Associates, Mario Gabelli, from Gabelli Asset Management, Bill Perkins from Skylar Capital Management, Steve Kuhn from Pine River Capital Management, John Rogers from Ariel Investments and David Einhorn from Greenlight Capital.
While each and every one of the players from the above lineup is well-recognizable for financial people, two names stand out for poker connoisseurs: Bill Perkins and David Einhorn.
Perkins is an amateur poker player, but don’t let that fool you: he’s no lightweight in poker or in whatever else he’s involved with. He has amassed more than $2.4 million in tournament winnings. In the 2013 WSOP’s $111,111 One Drop High Roller, he finished third, taking down $1.96 million. He’s logged appearances on the popular televised poker show High Stakes Poker and on
PokerStars’ Big Game.
Einhorn is a billionaire and an avid poker player, well known for donating his winnings to charity. In 2012, he played in the Big One for One Drop and made the final table, picking up $4.3 million for his efforts, money which ended up donated to the City Year Foundation.
In 2006, in the largest ever
WSOP Main Event, he finished 18th, picking up $659.9k, which he then donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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