Steven L. Heston

Steven "Steve" L. Heston is an American mathematician, economist, and financier. He's also prominently active in the field of gambling-related research, where he sometimes uses the pen name Kim Lee.

Education Heston studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Maryland, where he obtained his B.S. In 1985, he completed his M.B.A. studies in Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. From the same university, Carnegie Mellon, in 1987, he received his M.S. in Finance and in 1990 his Ph.D. for analyzing options with stochastic volatility.

From 1998 to 2002, Heston worked as Vice President of U.S. Arbitrage and also of Quantitative Equities, in Goldman Sachs, New York.

Gambling-related research Heston, under his own name or the pen name "Kim Lee," has written extensively on issues related to the games of poker and casino blackjack, and gambling-related issues, in general. He is also active in online message boards on issues related to the mathematics of gambling.

Heston is the author of numerous articles and texts on the game of blackjack, often participating in teams' strategy formulation, on issues ranging from simple card counting books on tournament poker: Along with Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson, of Kill Phil, and, with Lee Nelson and professional poker tournament player Tysen Streib, of the subsequent Kill Everyone. The titles are a word play combining the title of the Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill and the name of Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player and winner of multiple tournaments, with a significant number of WSOP bracelets.