In 1986 a guy got kicked out of every casino in Vegas for counting cards. So he flew to Hong Kong with $180,000 and started betting on horses instead. He walked away with almost $900 million.
It's Bill Benter. He figured horse racing was just another counting problem. Same math, more moving parts.
He and a partner showed up with $180k and a computer. Benter spent years teaching that computer to guess one thing, the real chance each horse had to win. If his number was better than the odds the bookies gave, he bet. If not, he skipped it.
That's the whole trick. Expected value.
EV = p · b − (1 − p)
Only bet when your win chance p, at odds b, is worth more than your chance of losing.
This recording was never meant to be some hidden gem. Nobody expected Professor Tsitsiklis to hand the whole foundation away in 45 minutes, but that's exactly what happens on the board. Students in that room pay over $80,000 a year to sit through it. It's free right here. It's free right here.
Every quant, every professional bettor, every hedge fund analyst started with this exact hour. Benter just watched it and actually did the homework.
Almost nobody knows this lecture even exists. Watch it before it gets taken down.
The answer is in this video.
BIG WEEK.
Happy Monday from Tokenization Tower.
CLARITY...or not? Tokenization exemptions...or not? Fed rate hike...or not?
Friday's hot CPI has the market pricing 85%+ odds of a Fed hike this week, the first in three years.
That's the kind of thing that used to send crypto straight down.
Except it's not. Could it be a bullish hike?
Bitcoin is holding $78K, ETH up around $2,500, even with $108 / barrel for oil and the 10Y bond yield pushing 5%.
This market is chaotic.
The Senate's cloture vote is tomorrow, Trump just caved on the crypto ethics provisions to unlock bipartisan support, and the whole timeline's screaming "giga send" if it clears.
Regulation certainty is the catalyst everyone's been waiting on.
Stacked show to break it down.
1inch's Orest has been briefing Congress on the DeFi carve-out, Plume's Ryan just launched onchain invoice factoring
Great show today, the line-up is in:
1:30PM ET @OrestGavryliak - @1inch
2:00PM ET @TripleVodkaSoda - @plumenetwork
See you on the show.
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The tide is turning.
From Denver to SF, the first AI conference of the year for us awaits.
We will be livestreaming on the floor at NEARCON two days back-to-back with AI entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Then, were off to NYC to introduce you to The Nest ™️
A billionaire oncologist just went on national television and said the words millions have been waiting to hear publicly.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong – the surgeon who invented the nanoparticle chemotherapy Abraxane, sold companies for billions, and now owns the LA Times – appeared on NewsNation’s primetime special “Killing Cancer: The Power Within” with Chris Cuomo.
He looked straight into the camera and said:
“When you actually biopsy these new aggressive tumors, we are finding spike protein inside the tumors.”
Chris Cuomo: “From Covid?”
Dr. Soon-Shiong: “From Covid.”
He then described patients he’s seeing in 2025:
- 10- and 11-year-old children with colon cancer
- A 13-year-old who died in his clinic from pancreatic cancer
- A close friend whose thymoma was dormant for 30 years – got Covid/vaccinated – now widespread metastasis
- Jim Johnson: beat HPV-related throat cancer, 7 years clean, got vaccinated, then became the first known case of HPV spreading to the liver. Doctors “had no idea why.”
This is not a podcast guest. This is the man whose new FDA-approved drug Anktiva is training the body’s own natural killer cells to destroy bladder, lung, pancreatic, and other cancers – with patients in full remission who were sent home to die.
Watch this 59-second exchange from the NewsNation special. Decide for yourself.
Questions deserve answers.
Why the explosion of rare and pediatric cancers since 2020?
What role does persistent spike protein play?
And why are we finally on the verge of making chemotherapy obsolete with therapies like Anktiva?
No hysteria. Just a world-class doctor describing biopsies and patients he’s treating right now.
If this matters to you or someone you love, share it. Tag a cancer fighter. The truth doesn’t need shouting – it just needs daylight.
Southwest Airlines is changing its policy for plus-size passengers.
Starting January 27, 2026, passengers who encroach upon neighboring seats will be required to proactively purchase an additional ticket in advance to guarantee space. The definitive boundary for the seats is considered to be the armrest.
WATCH: With a drizzle falling on Camp Mystic, the flood-ravaged Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a father navigates the debris in search of his eight-year-old daughter.
"My daughter was here," he says, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a family photo. She is among 27 girls who have yet to be found after powerful waves of water rushed through the riverside camp in the pre-dawn hours after torrential rainfall. | Gianrigo MARLETTA / AFPTV / AFP
#GuadalupeRiver #Texas #DailyTribune
WATCH: With a drizzle falling on Camp Mystic, the flood-ravaged Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a father navigates the debris in search of his eight-year-old daughter.
"My daughter was here," he says, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a family photo. She is among 27 girls who have yet to be found after powerful waves of water rushed through the riverside camp in the pre-dawn hours after torrential rainfall. | Gianrigo MARLETTA / AFPTV / AFP
#GuadalupeRiver #Texas #DailyTribune
Kerrville, Texas city council just recently approved construction of a $175 Million Natural Gas Power Plant. 🚨🚨🚨
Out of curiosity, I looked to see if there were any “smart city” or major construction projects slated for Kerrville, Texas in the near future…
Lo and behold…
Is it possible that weather modification is in play in Kerrville, causing Biblical levels of flooding, because a LAND GRAB may be necessary to build this plant?
Much like Asheville, NC when it was found that the Government (DoD) was trying to confiscate the lithium mines there, and the flooding was apparently caused from the off shoot of a tropical storm/hurricane.
JUST like today in Kerrville…
I think the possibility of Asheville repeating in Kerrville more PROBABLE than not.
The pattern and precedent exists, many times over…
Whenever the Government wants land, they either find a way to flood it out catastrophically, or burn it all down.
🚨 BREAKING:
Just watched the new Ondo Finance commercial (Ripple partner) — and I absolutely love it. 🔥🎥
🎙️ CEO Nathan Allman breaks down how settling OUSG on the #XRPLedger using RLUSD is transforming institutional finance. 🏦
$XRP is leading the way.