HONGYI GU
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
Quant trader-track candidate focused on futures/options and market‑making. Columbia M.A. in Economics; Berkeley B.A. in Applied Math & Economics. Strengths: fast mental math, probability/EV reasoning, order‑book intuition, and disciplined risk limits from high‑stakes poker. Progressed from $1/$2/$3 to $100/$200 NL, scaling risk responsibly via bankroll rules, table selection, and post‑session review. Seeking desks that emphasize trading judgment, microstructure intuition, and risk management over heavy software engineering.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Poker Player
High‑stakes Poker ("GG")
New York, USA
10.2024 - Current
- Overview: Professional Poker Player, Competitive Decision‑Making; live-stream results on highrollpoker.com/tracker/players/4000.
- 10 streamed episodes on Bally Live Poker with Phil Laak and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, net winnings $107,575, ~$2,561 hourly.
- Stakes progression: $1/$2/$3 → $100/$200 NL (live). Scaled risk with Kelly‑aware bankroll rules, strict stop‑loss/quit criteria, and session hand reviews.
- Decision discipline: Rapid EV/odds computation, range‑vs‑range reasoning, and tilt control; transferable to quoting, inventory control, and drawdown management in trading.
- Public record: Highrollpoker tracker — GG
Intern
Houlihan Lokey
Beijing, China
06.2023 - 08.2023
- Company Overview: M&A (Intern)
- Supported >10 processes; distilled market color, comps, and catalysts under tight timelines—useful for event‑driven trading context.
- Prepared deal theses and risk maps for senior bankers; sharpened valuation judgment and asymmetric‑payoff thinking.
Intern
Bank of China (Los Angeles Branch)
Los Angeles, USA
06.2021 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Portfolio Management (Intern)
- Analyzed borrower financials and monitored portfolio credit health; exposure to rates/credit risk, liquidity, and stress‑test logic.
- Communicated findings to management; reinforced disciplined, checklist‑driven risk control.
Education
M.A. - Economics
Columbia University
New York, NY12.2024
B.A. - Applied Mathematics, Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA05.2023
Skills
- Equity index futures
- Energy options
- Metals options
- Trade execution
- Futures trading
- Market research
- Quantitative reasoning
- Risk assessment
- Statistical analysis
- Put-call parity
- Tick math
- Fee math
- Inventory trade-offs
- Adverse-selection trade-offs
- Mental arithmetic
- Probability
- Fast hypothesis testing
- Trade journaling
- Excel
- Python
Timeline
Poker Player
High‑stakes Poker ("GG")
10.2024 - Current
Intern
Houlihan Lokey
06.2023 - 08.2023
Intern
Bank of China (Los Angeles Branch)
06.2021 - 08.2021
M.A. - Economics
Columbia University
B.A. - Applied Mathematics, Economics
University of California, Berkeley
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