Finance and risk education from a CFA charterholder with 15 years in the markets and 20 years at the poker table. Learn to size your bets, protect your bankroll, and stay off tilt — whichever table you're playing.
Markets, poker, sports books — the names change, the math doesn't. Everything here teaches the same three disciplines: find your edge, size your bet, keep your head.
Trading and investing without the mysticism. How to read a company like a hand history, why process beats prediction, and how to be wrong half the time and still make money.
EXPLORE →Poker, sports betting, and casino math for people who'd like to know exactly how much fun costs. Pot odds, implied odds, closing line value, and the house edge on everything.
EXPLORE →The bridge between them, and the part nobody wants to study. Position sizing, Kelly and why you should bet less than Kelly, drawdowns, and tilt control — the real edge.
EXPLORE →History's greatest gambles, graded honestly. Some paid off. Some ended in flames. The best ones did both — and every episode ends with the lesson you can actually use.
Payroll due: $24,000. Company account: $5,000. Fred Smith flew to Vegas and put the company on the blackjack table. "Without funds, we couldn't fly anyway."
One man beat the casino with math and compounded for fifty years. The other ran $50 into $40 million on pure fire — then gave back every dollar. Why one curve compounds and the other evaporates.
The smartest man alive FOMO'd back in at the top and lost a fortune. An accountant with a YouTube channel held through a 90% drawdown and won. Conviction and FOMO look identical — until the bill comes.
The calculators and reports I actually use — free to run, built to make the odds visible before the money moves.
Full interactive tear-sheets — moat, financials vs. industry, analyst consensus, 5-year chart with RSI. Eighty-four S&P 500 names and counting.
BROWSE THE REPORTS →Pot odds, parlay truth-teller (spoiler: the book loves your parlay), and house-edge lookups for every casino game you're pretending is a strategy.
Kelly, fractional Kelly, and drawdown simulators — how much to bet when you have an edge, and what happens when you think you do but don't.
Position sizing, concentration, and risk metrics on your actual portfolio — the trade journal, graduated.
I answered a classified ad and became a prop trader. I sat down at a poker table and became a student of variance. Fifteen-plus years trading and investing, twenty-plus playing cards, and a CFA charter later, I noticed something: the people blowing up in markets and the people blowing up at casinos were making the exact same mistakes — with different vocabulary.
The Tilted Gent is the course I wish someone had handed me before either table took my money. Story first, math second, lecture never. Be wrong half the time and still profit — that's not a slogan, it's an expected-value calculation, and I'll show you the arithmetic.
Ours, that is. Branded kit for people who take the game seriously and themselves less so.