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Poker expert, Morgan Stanley executive, and author Aaron Brown offers in his new book, The Poker Face of Wall Street, the idea that finances can only be understood as a gambling game and that gambling games can only be understood as forms of finance.

There are probably a lot of reasons why author Des Wilson picked David Uliott at the headliner for his new book about the lives of professional poker players. First, the book centers on British poker players, and Uliott is one of the best there. Second, Uliott is a sharp dresser who owns a jewelry business, and is known as something of a shady character, although that may be promo fluff. Third, it's the nickname.

In the last four or five years the popularity of poker has gone soaring through the roof, thanks in large part to two factors; the televised episodes of the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker, and the Cinderella stories of the last four winners of the WSOP’s main event.