Interview with Bill Chen

[iddqd]

An audio interview with Bill Chen, pro poker player and quant at Susquehanna International Group. He talks quite a bit about his workplace and his views on the connection between trading and (educated) gambling.

Two Plus Two Pokercast Browsing

(Starts at about 37 minutes).

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Nice. I have my speaker phone off but I like how the listen and browse approach works. Aren't these Susquehanna guys very big on poker thing?
I read on QuantNetwork some time ago that if you play poker and interview there, they will spend more time talking about your poker skill than your quant skills.

 

[Scooot]

http://www.phillymag.com/shopping_style/articles/beating_the_odds/

This link is a long and extremely interesting story of Jess Yass who was one of the founders of SIG. In it, they detail quite about about their thoughts on poker.

Also, Bill Chen wrote the bible for Limit Poker that is probably the most indepth and acedemic poker book ever written thus far. The game of HU LHE, and LHE in general is now very solved and "efficent" which is directly or indirectly due to this book.

Sorry for the random thread bump. Was just searching and came across this and wanted to post the link if it's not floating around here somewhere.

 

[groundbounce]

Interesting stuff. I played poker for a living to pay my way through college and I wonder if I should even bother to bring it up during an interview. Only reason I would think to is I know a handful of poker players back then who ended up in the financial area because of contacts they made through poker.