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...increasing numbers; players with a mathematical mind, focus, drive and a keen sense of risk honed in professions like academia, the law or finance. These hobbyist bounty hunters were bound to start showing up at the Main Event, where the game's popularity has pushed up the stakes nine-fold over the past decade - a period that has seen folks with a knack for numbers, like math whiz Chris Ferguson and accountant Chris Moneymaker, claim mountainous paydays...
...along comes Begleiter, an investment banker who has grabbed a coveted place in the "November Nine." He wouldn't be there if not for the implosion of his longtime employer Bear Stearns, where he headed corporate strategy and helped wind down the firm's business amid the financial panic of 2008. The demise of Bears Stearns marked the rise of Begs the poker player. After the firm was sold to JPMorgan in March of 2008, Begleiter was without work and looking for someplace to let off steam. "I decided what the heck," he recalls. "I'm going to play...
...nine-member legislative body of Cambridge, the Council votes on city ordinances and also hires the City Manager, the city’s chief executive. In January, the councillors will choose one of their number to serve as mayor...
...ways in which policy-making could address the problems raised by “The Wire.” Bobo spoke of the “the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs” and the need to reassess incarceration policy at a time when one in nine black men are in prison, often for crimes that would not have resulted in a jail term for a white person. “We need to ask ourselves, did it reduce crime? And did it make us all safer...
...going on one heck of a book tour. How many cities are you going to? Fifty-nine. I think I must have been heavily medicated when I agreed to that schedule...