Spanky, a professional sports bettor and creator of the Bet Bash conference, joins the show for a wide ranging conversation. Highlights include:

• The reason for the Bet Bash conference (2:28)
• The definition and origin of the term beard (5:00)
• Key events at Bet Bash 2023 (18:48)
• College football betting (27:06)
• Billy Walters (31:50)
• The state of the union in sports betting (35:55)
• Tricking DraftKings (42:05)

I also really enjoyed talking with Spanky about how he’s a World Champion in the board game Twilight Struggle (47:38). To listen to the entire episode here, click on the right pointing triangle:

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Captain Jack Andrews, professional sports bettor and founder of Unabated, joins the podcast for a wide ranging conversion. Highlights include:

• An early example of a sports betting edge (5:15)
• The difficulty in finding a good book maker (8:13)
• Analytics and book making (14:19)
• Educating sports bettors (23:09)
• Betting NFL football (33:37)
• Top down versus bottom up approaches to betting (40:12)
• The bright future for sharp sports bettors (49:46)
• How exchanges work (55:06)
• How to get casino comps (1:08:11)

Jack has such a wide range of knowledge in sports betting that this conversation could have been double its actual length. To listen here, click on the right pointing triangle:

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You should also check out all of their great tools at Unabated. I’ll be talking about these in future newsletter.

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On this episode of The Football Analytics Show, I’m joined by Doug Kezirian of ESPN. As their sports betting analyst, he’s the host of Daily Wager. Among other topics, we discuss:

• How a Los Angeles guys arrived at ESPN in Las Vegas through Missouri and Iowa (2:45)
• Live basketball betting (15:26)
• NFL betting (31:30)
• Saints, Packers, Chiefs (38:21)
• Sports books and limiting sharps (46:43)
• Doug’s big win on the 2021 NFL draft (56:51)

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On this episode of The Football Analytics Show, I’m joined by Mark Scalley and Mike Craig, two long time professional sports betting partners. Among other topics, we discuss:

• Starting a partnership in 2009 (4:20)
• Getting accounts in 2009 (9:00)
• Getting accounts in 2022 (16:50, 44:44)
• The key to sports betting relationships (26:07)
• Is Twitter a good thing for sports betting? (36:00)
• Getting limited at sports books (46:54)
• Origination and why no one discussed it at Bet Bash (55:31)

While Mike has appeared on this podcast multiple times, I was thrilled to have Mark on to talk sports betting. To listen here, click on the right pointing triangle.

The Raw Craft series by Anthony Bourdain mentioned towards the end of the podcast.

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