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105: Brendan Poots – How a Former Punter Pioneered a Premier Sports Betting Hedge Fund

Chat With Traders

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The Importance of Disdiscretion in Betting

A lot of the people that come to us they're gamblers they don't and this the other thing about American sport is that because America has been effectively a binary sports betting nation since eternity you either win or you lose. We haven't found anyone good that matches us as yet okay so here you're talking about PhD quants you'retalking about statisticians how much discretion do you use versus quantitative methods in regards to your bets? "Most of the time when there's an external factor like that even if there's perceived value in the market based on our output we'll steer clear of of that event purely because of the unknowns"

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