I love public transport and when I lived in Europe (bounced around Schengen for a year or two), I probably took Uber only once (when I was buying an office chair from Ikea). And while I would love more public transport in the United States, the reality is that in big cities the level of safety compared to the level of safety in European or Asian cities is just not up to par.

How were you compensated? You mention 'shops', so I'm guessing this was in the UK?

~£50,000 a day in trading volume, that's a lot! What markets were you trading on?

Pinnacle (not sure it's 'Asian', I believe their main offices are in Toronto) takes a lot of action on major markets. For smaller markets such as player props, Pinnacle takes very little. If you were confident in beating major markets, such as EPL or NFL, Pinnacle will very regularly take $50k a click, with rebets possible. However, if you're betting major markets, even the 'softer' books such as DraftKings would probably be willing to take a lot as well.

The soft books usually kick out or limit players if they are beating smaller markets such as player props, team props, derivatives (for example, a 1Q team total, etc). A 'sharp' book such as Circa or Pinnacle might not explicitly limit an individual player, but in general they don't offer as many markets, so it's not an apples to apples comparison.

SICP, that brings me back to the freshman year CS course I took at Berkeley five years ago.