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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I mean, imagine you're a smart guy.
You've got a college education.
You could do anything you want with your life.
Imagine leaving a normal life behind, moving to Vegas, moving into a small apartment with six other dudes and spending all day counting cards in the casino.
It's a weird career choice, right?
So something is making them do this and something is keeping them in the game for decades at a time.
And they describe the sort of, not the addiction of winning, because they're not addicted to the feeling of making money from a bet.
In fact, they switch that part of their brain off.
When they win a bet, they feel nothing.
That's the whole point.
They turn that side of their brain off.
But what they get a positive feeling from is coming up with a new idea, testing it, quantifying it,
taking it into the casino and then seeing their idea born out in reality.
That's an incredibly satisfying feeling, especially when you know you're the only one doing it.
And then when you walk home at the end of that period, which might take a year, two years, and you've got a million dollars in your pocket, you feel like a superstar.
I mean, a lot.
I think there's a symbiotic relationship between advantage gambling and financial markets.
It always has been.
The inventor of card counting, Ed Thorpe, as you may or may not know, went on to start an auctions trading hedge fund out in Los Angeles.
He did.
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