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Definitely not luck. Bill runs with the same crowd that wrote the bible on advantage play (James Grosjean, etc). They are exceptionally talented.



Bill originally worked with a team of people doing this in HK (that later broke up, some of the people involved were...characters). There was a whole group of people doing this in the 90s (some of these teams also did Japan). I believe he did stuff in casinos but parimutal obviously had a lot more scale.


Exactly right. Impossible for individuals to operate at this scale. Bill led a large operation. Similarly, advantage play frequently requires teams to execute as you are often hoping to land a specific seat with a specific dealer.




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