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Will be showing this to my kids & having a discussion tomorrow morning. A lot of depth to this very simple gif♥️
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n 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 was Bill Benter.
He realized horse racing was just another counting problem same math, more moving parts.
He and a partner built a computer model that estimated the true odds of each horse. If his numbers showed an edge, he bet. If not, he skipped it.
That’s the whole trick:
Expected value.
EV = p · b − (1 − p)
Only bet when the probability of winning × the potential payout is greater than the chance of losing.
What’s even crazier is that Benter once gave a 45-minute lecture explaining the math behind his system.
That recording was never supposed to become public.
And almost nobody knows it exists.
This is the lecture that professional bettors and hedge fund analysts studied.
The answer is in this video.
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Seal finding out lizards exist.... Highly dramatic interaction between a harbor seal (often misidentified as a sea lion) and a large lizard (specifically a Tegu)
The seal swims up, locks eyes with the reptile, and stops dead in its tracks. Its eyes widen in complete, comical disbelief. It blows bubbles, floats backward, and swims in a confused circle before coming back to stare again—as if it cannot comprehend what kind of creature it is looking at.
