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Begleiter says his poker success, which includes a ninth-place finish in another World Poker Tour event last August, hasn't been about some special mastery of probabilities and risk. "There are plenty of people who are very good poker players who never worked on Wall Street and may have even dropped out of their community college," he says. To him, success is more about reading the opponent. He likens entering an all-in Hold 'Em showdown to a bidding war against some other investment firm trying to buy the same assets he wants to buy. You don't want...
...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...
...existence won’t change because of his relatively remote decisions. However, West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s decision about the creation of a retail area around our town train station will directly influence day-to-day life in the place I go back to every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and summer...
...were given the choice between registering in our hometowns and Cambridge, so supposedly we have some connection to the place where we vote. If you root for the Yankees or Mets, get angry when someone says Boston is the cleaner city and can’t go to ‘Nochs without saying, “You know the best place for pizza is really New York,” then you should probably be voting in the mayoral election this fall. Along the same lines, anyone who cares about their hometown can best demonstrate this by helping...
Foreign Minister Bogollagama said he had made his government's concerns clear to the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Patricia Butenis. "The U.S. authorities should not exert procedures on [Fonseka]," Bogollagama said. "The interview should not take place." The Sri Lankan government believes that despite Fonseka's status as a green-card holder, the U.S. does not have any jurisdiction over him at this point because he entered the country on a Sri Lankan passport. "General Fonseka is a citizen of Sri Lanka and he holds a diplomatic passport from Sri Lanka," said Bogollagama. The minister said that Fonseka could...