Comment by AnotherGoodName

I'm always skeptical of these "i totally made money gambling i just stopped for other reasons" type of claims and for good reason.

Looking him up it looks like he managed to start and subsequently close (due to low returns) hedge funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp#Stock_market

So it seems he was full of shit right? He was saying what he needed to say to get investors and when those investors fell for it he did not deliver.

Sold a lot of books though...