Kit Chellel
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486 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 May
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And by that, I mean he took $150,000, moved to Hong Kong, where he'd never been before in his life.
He was living in Vegas at the time, and started his business.
And 50 years later, 45 years later, however long it is now, he's still doing exactly the same thing.
He's still using a computer to bet on horses, which tells you that he's onto something.
He didn't just have a couple of good seasons.
His total profits over 20, 30 years, easily a billion dollars.
So he's kind of the king of computer-assisted wagering.
Yeah, in the UK, there's less stigma about gambling.
I mean, we'd be doing it a lot longer.
And we never had the extent of organized crime involvement in betting as you guys did, particularly in Vegas, when the mob were all over it in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
So it had a kind of stigma of criminality and darkness to it.
It never really had that here.
So it's much more mainstream.
That said, the two guys you mentioned, Tony Bloom, owner of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club,
Matthew Benham, owner of Brentford Football Club.
Those guys are professional gamblers.
They made their money using tech driven bets in the 1990s, particularly on international soccer.
Now,
Most people in the UK don't know that that's how they made their money.
They're sort of vaguely described as doing sports analysis or sports data.
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