Dan Thomson

COO of Imawhale PM TX. Christian. Husband. Father.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

Proud of what we are building.

[Shane Sigsbee @ssigsbee]

Today we @ImawhalePM crossed 1B in lifetime volume traded on Kalshi.

8 months ago this was just an idea.

A few things about us:
• We’re a delta-neutral, opinionless market making operation
• Our focus is tight spreads, fast pricing, and deep liquidity across fragmented event markets
• None of this volume came from RFQs
• We make markets across everything from Cricket and Esports to NFL and WNBA
• We recently tripled the size of our trading team
• 2 months ago we launched a live trading division
• We’re still a tiny team relative to the opportunity

Most importantly, we definitely do not have all the answers yet.

We’ve had wins, mistakes, painful lessons, and plenty of volatility along the way. But this is the most intellectually fun problem any of us have ever worked on.

Excited for the next 1B to come a lot faster.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@JerryBarkcia Cmon zero bottom 5? Gotta be bait

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@SatsMcgee @JerryBarkcia ball knower

[クロズキング @peronation_lab]

Japanese elementary schools have NO janitors. None.

Every single day, after lunch, all the kids — from tiny 6-year-old first graders to 12-year-old sixth graders — stand up, grab brooms, mops, rags, and buckets, and clean their entire school together.

They sweep the classrooms, wipe the desks, mop the hallways, clean the blackboards, and yes… even scrub the toilets.

No one complains. No teachers are yelling. It’s just what they do.

This daily 20-30 minute cleaning time teaches them:

• Responsibility
• Teamwork
• Respect for their environment
• That there is no such thing as “someone else’s job”

By the time they graduate elementary school, they’ve spent hundreds of hours taking care of their school. That’s why Japan feels so incredibly clean — the habit starts at age 6.

Foreigners who visit Japanese schools are always shocked. “The kids are cleaning?!”

But for Japanese people, it’s completely normal.

This small cultural practice might be one of the secrets behind Japan’s orderliness and discipline.

What do you think? Should more countries do this? 🇯🇵🧹

#Japan #Education #Culture

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@EchoesofWarYT Nice post never knew this

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@Amo4sho @KatieStonePoker @WSOP This is absurd by them. Out of curiosity could you have bought into just that specific tournament with cash and not deposited more?

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@mikemayer22 One of my favorite sports videos of all time.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.

Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@markleggett not a ball knower

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@owroot Our two year old loves Little Bear! It’s super chill.

[Jim Breuer @JimBreuer]

Playing the victim is easy. Getting up, finding God, and becoming somebody worth following, that’s the hard part

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@BartHanson The impossible hand / changing cards dream is common among players.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@mitsevox @quentinJpapert @VanjaPoker I rank game difficulty by how much profit can be extracted. If a player is an expected loser in a game I would say that game is difficult for them.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@quentinJpapert @mitsevox @VanjaPoker The point is nl100 online players would not win at 10/20 live.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@LloydLegalist What’s so bad about making it fun, relevant and comfortable?

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@mitsevox @VanjaPoker Of course you would. You’d make 10x more money if you were a winning player. You think nl100 regs want to struggle to make rent and simply choose not play in a far more profitable game?

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@mitsevox @VanjaPoker These are all components of competence. Theoretical knowledge is only half the battle the ability to perform and execute your A game is equally if not more important. And that’s where it will fall apart.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@VanjaPoker You can’t take someone and throw them into a game 20x larger and play 1/10th the hands per hour and interact face to face with opponents and be totally out of their comfort zone and expect them to be able to execute their A game and avoid meltdown. Different skill sets.

[Dan Thomson @DanThomson22]

@ZENofLEN @berkey11 THANK YOU thought I was going crazy lol