Talk:John Larry Kelly Jr.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm inclined to take out the last two paragraphs in Las Vegas connection
The connection to Kelly is remote. Ed Thorp used Kelly's criterion to size his blackjack bets, years later the MIT card counting team used blackjack techniques built on Thorp's (but not the Kelly criterion), then Ben Mezrich wrote a book about the MIT team that got made into a movie. I suspect I could plug pretty much any book or movie using logic chains of this length. On top of that, there are no citations.

Anyone object?

AaCBrown (talk) 19:45, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, I did it. While I was at it, I moved the reference to his Kelly Criterion paper up to the top.


 * AaCBrown (talk) 16:42, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

"Winning at Roulette"?!
The article currently states that Kelly, Thorp and others "made very successful forays in roulette and blackjack" but roulette is a negative-expectation game. Kelly's system of bet sizing is only valid for positive-expectation games, since the Kelly-optimal bet size for negative-expectation games is strictly zero. There is something seriously wrong with this bit of "information" and since it lacks any specific citation must be deleted. -The Gnome (talk) 23:47, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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