Kit Chellel
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486 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 May
Kit Chellel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you, Chad.
And can I just say how much I enjoy your British accent at the start of the show?
Well, you may not know it, but London is kind of a hub of gambling tech.
You know, the explosion has happened in the US in the last, what, five, six, seven years.
You know, that happened a long time ago in the UK.
We've got a very developed betting market.
There's lots of betting startups.
You know, some of the biggest online bookmakers are British.
British Run and British Headquarters.
So I sort of stumbled into this world because of my proximity to all that.
And my first story about Bill Benter, the horse racing genius billionaire out in Hong Kong, there was a London connection to that too.
Quite a famous London investor had invested in one of the companies that came from the Hong Kong betting scene.
So it's kind of by accident, but also a little bit, you know, where I'm from.
Yeah, Bill Benter, you can think of him as the godfather of computer assisted wagering.
I mean, I think he really was the first to do it in a horse racing setting, bearing in mind that when he started in 1980, I think he first started looking at this,
You know, most people didn't even have access to a computer, but he he was a card counter at the time and he was a very mathematically, technologically minded guy.
And his big idea was, you know, let's apply that big data methods to horse racing.
It's horse racing is is driven by numbers, performance, speed.
as you guys know.
But he was the first one to really take it seriously.
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