Raise Your Game

Poker

Q+A with High-Stakes Poker Player and Susquehanna Trading Intern, Jens Kyllönen

August 24, 2017 by Jens

Jens Kyllönen is known online as “Jeans89” and is widely regarded as one of the top Pot-limit Omaha players in the world. Jens joined Susquehanna this summer as a Trading Intern in our Bala Cynwyd office. He was nice enough to answer a few questions and provide insights into one...

Crucial Games and Tactics for SIG’s 1st Place NACCL Chess Team

Gaming

Crucial Games and Tactics for Susquehanna’s 1st Place NACCL Chess Team

June 7, 2021 by Justin B.

Over 6 Thursdays in late January and February, the inaugural online North American Corporate Chess League took place, with over 400 players and 40 teams competing on lichess.org. The league awarded prizes to both the top 15 individuals and the top 5 teams, with each team’s score equal to the...

Gaming

Ladies Knight Podcast Appearance

February 11, 2022 by Ella

As part of Susquehanna’s sponsorship of U.S. Chess, I recently joined Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, on her chess podcast, Ladies Knight. Tune in to hear our conversation, where we talk about gender in chess, rating distribution, differences between human chess players and AI chess players and how...

Interesting Insights from SIG’s 2022 Super Bowl Square Probabilities

Sports

Interesting Insights from Susquehanna’s 2022 Super Bowl Square Probabilities

February 23, 2022 by Zach

Every year at Susquehanna, we celebrate the Super Bowl with a firm-wide Super Bowl Sweepstakes. This year, every employee was randomly assigned Cincinnati or Los Angeles as the winner and the last digit of each team’s final score. In order to win, both the team you were assigned needed to...

Q&A With SIG Trading Intern Andrew Tang aka penguingm1

Gaming

Q+A with Bullet Chess Player and Susquehanna Trading Intern, Andrew Tang

August 29, 2022 by Emily

Andrew Tang is known online as “penguingm1” and is widely regarded as one of the top bullet chess players. Andrew joined Susquehanna this summer as a Trading Intern in our Bala Cynwyd office. Hi Andrew! We’re so excited to have you interning with us this summer. Can you tell us...

Gaming

Rolling in Teamfight Tactics

September 16, 2022 by Andy

A note from Susquehanna: Andy is a Duke University graduate and Quantitative Trader at Susquehanna. Despite starting TFT only a year ago, Andy had the best average placement in NA across all three Dragonlands events and has become first North American representative for the Dragonlands Championship! Introduction Before going into...

Sports

It’s a Philly “Sign”

February 24, 2023 by Ella

Football is a big deal in Philadelphia, and this year’s Eagles season was nothing short of memorable. I was so grateful that Susquehanna’s founder Jeff Yass was taking me and about 50 other employees (and a guest!) to this year’s Super Bowl. In the days approaching our big trip, I...

Susquehanna at FIDE Corporate Chess Championship

Gaming

A Recap of Susquehanna’s Performance at the World Corporate Chess Championship

August 19, 2024 by Ella

Susquehanna recently competed in the World Corporate Chess Championship. The tournament – run by FIDE, the governing body of international chess competition – brought participants from over 350 companies across 55 countries to compete to be considered the “smartest company in the world.” Teams were required to have at least...

Did the US beating Pakistan peak your interest in Cricket?

Sports

Two strategic elements of T20 Cricket to think about during this World Cup

June 18, 2024 by Hriday

As the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is taking place in United States, we’ve seen some incredible upsets – like Afghanistan beating New Zealand, Canada beating Ireland, and the United States beating Pakistan. I wrote a primer about the sport and two strategic elements that can greatly impact the...

Sports

Did Kyle Shanahan make the right OT coin toss decision?

February 23, 2024 by Jeff G.

In this year’s Super Bowl we were all introduced to a new playoff overtime format that boils down to The Coaches’ Differing Strategies The 49ers won the coin toss and took the ball first. Coach Shanahan of the 49ers told the media after the Super Bowl “We wanted the ball...