THIS IS NOT FROM THE ONION

(h/t Gawker)
But it may be used by a future Gibbon to help explain the fall of the American Empire.

Trading firms put their money on poker experts

A new breed of Wall Street recruit gets ahead not through connections or business experience, but through demonstrating a head for numbers, quick thinking and risk-taking – skills from the card table.

By Nathaniel Popper, Los Angeles Times

May 16, 2010