Kit Chellel

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486 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 May

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · Sharp or Square - Covering The World's Best Gamblers with Writer Kit Chellel · 13 May 2026 podcast

Lots of very smart young people coming to Vegas to make a living, having read books about card counting, but also the ready availability of computing equipment for the first time.

and a sort of general niche interest in the science of probability for the first time.

I want to tell people about this amazing conference that happened in

in lake tahoe in 1981 and it brought together like some of the greatest minds in in science and probability and mathematics of the era and they were talking about blackjack you know there were guys there were european phd professors presenting statistical analysis of every card counting system to see which one was fractionally more effective than the other um

And so the very top end of this activity, they came from that.

That's the world they came from.

I kind of wanted to understand how they came to exist.

And hopefully I do a decent job in the book of showing what it takes to reach that top level at least.

Yeah, there's definitely a type, I think.

Maybe a type that is common in any area of endeavor where there are exceptional people, whether it's academia or politics.

But so the obvious ones would be very technically minded mathematical people.

They're math nerds, right?

They're the guys who score very well in math school throughout high school.

Often they're guys who have studied physics or one of those technical subjects at college.

They have that level of ability.

But what makes them unique, I think, is that they can't just be ivory tower academics.

They have to be able to apply their skills in a real world setting, a casino or a betting market.

And that's a whole other world.

So you need psychology for that.

You need street smarts for that.

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