Brand new details on the credit trader and cardplaying chessmaster who sandbagged JPMorgan's London Whale

More details about credit trader Boaz Weinstein:

He grew up in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

• He earned the title of chess master when he was 16. At a recent auction, he paid $10,500 to play chess with legend Garry Kasparov. He plays online games with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
• He won a stock-picking competition as a student in New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School.
• When he was 18, he failed to land a job at Goldman Sachs. But then he was able to get more interviews after playing chess with a senior partner, whom he ran into at a bathroom.
• He studied philosophy at the University of Michigan.
• As a credit trader at Deutsche Bank, Weinstein booked profits in 10 out of 11 years
• In his heyday, he booked around $40 million in profits each year.
• He earned the title of managing director at age 27. At the time, he was the youngest MD in Deutsche Bank history.
• During the height of the financial crisis, his team had lost around $2 billion.
• In 2005, he won a Maserarti at a poker tournament sponsored by a unit of Berkshire Hathaway. He still drives it.
• He's banned from Las Vegas' Bellagio casino for counting cards at blackjack.
• His hedge fund Saba Capital, has $5.5 billion under management and his offices are located on the 58th floor of New York City's Chrysler Building.
• His wife, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, is a lawyer with the Justice Department.
• In the hedge fund industry, Weinstein is known as a 'monster,' an unusually aggressive trader.
• He's currently in talks to buy a $24 million apartment on Fifth Avenue.

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