The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business

Ma, Jeffrey; Mezrich, Ben [Foreword]

ISBN 10: 0230622720 / ISBN 13: 9780230622722

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2010

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0230622720-3-30978421

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As part of the notorious MIT Blackjack Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House , Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three different companies - the latest of which, Citizen Sports, is an innovative marriage of sports, betting and digital technology - and launched a successful corporate speaking career. The House Advantage reveals Ma's cutting-edge mathematical insights into the world of statistics and makes them applicable to a wide business audience. He argues that numbers are the key to analyzing nearly everything in the world, from how to spot and profit from global market inefficiencies, to having multiple backup plans in anticipation of every probability. Ma's stories and business lessons are as intriguing as they are universally applicable.
From the genius card-counter who inspired the movie 21 , these simple yet brilliant mathematical insights can be used to control probability in business

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Jeffrey Ma was a member of the MIT blackjack team, which utilized sophisticated card-counting strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide in the mid-1990s, and was the basis for the main character of the book Bringing Down the House and the film 21. He has been the technology lead for two internet startups and was an options trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. He co-founded PROTRADE, a sports stock market website, and consults for professional sports teams including the Portland Trail Blazers and the San Francisco 49ers. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

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Titel: The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win...
Verlag: St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good