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Trading stock options is a high-risk business. That is why Jack Keller of Winnetka, Ill., took up the trade: compared with his previous career as a professional poker player, being a market maker looked low key. Keller, the No. 2 U.S. money winner at poker -- $300,000 this year -- has traded a seat at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one on the Chicago Board Options Exchange...
...induced to make the move by Jerry Krause, a friend in the options business. Krause staked Keller to $50,000 and guaranteed to cover all his losses in return for half his winnings. After two months on the job, says Krause, Keller is "up 100% on the original investment...
...part because she speaks with unusual candor, in part because Co-Author Kenneth Turan tells her story with artful artlessness. A child champion on The $64,000 Challenge who confessed at a congressional hearing that the show was rigged, Duke grew to win an Oscar at 16 as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker and one of her three Emmies as Annie Sullivan in the 1979 TV remake...
...committee took significant steps toinclude as many viable candidates as possible andpart of that was an effort to include minoritiesand women," Keller said, adding that both of thetop outside candidates were women...
Ultimately the best man won, committee memberssaid. "Jewett was an extraordinary candidate and avery tough act to beat," Keller said. "[Hisselection] shouldn't reflect negatively on theothers...