Ar the end of the day, Howard sat on the BOD of Full Tilt Poker which stole hundreds of millions of dollars from its players. Howard was a 9 percent owner of the company as well. Full Tilt took the players money and paid it out to its owners in dividends for over four years, along with passing it out to friends and allies (degenerate gamblers) in loans and sweetheart deals, and marking up lavish business expenses. But mostly the BOD just paid the money out as "dividends". The BOD of a company is responsible for dividend policy and it is implied they will look after the players money rather than saying "dividends!" and putting it in their pockets in what the US government called a Ponzi Scheme. ____ You can also read a well written chapter by Howard in the Full Tilt Strategy Guide where he claimed to explain a poker concept never before explained in print known as "Leveraging" a no limit stack. Problem is, the concept had been given a small chapter the year before in a Sklansky book and was referred to as The Hammer of Future Bets. ____ Prior to the plundering of Full Tilt, fine utube videos of Howard speaking on business and gambling ethics were produced ____ Howard also used to alude to having been a chess master, which simply never happened. ____ Lots of people talk the talk but...
I think chess player has a natural skill for stock trading (it doesn't mean one who plays chess would instantly make him a successful trader, but I think skill required for trading is there).