Gambling With an Edge this week
Our guests on the GWAE podcast this week are Professor David Schwartz, who is on to talk about his new book, Tales From the Pit. Then we talk with Anthony Curtis about things happening around Las...
View ArticleWhen Experts Say Opposite Things
When I was in graduate school 45 years ago, plus or minus, I heard about an incident many years prior to that at the University of Chicago. It appears that there was an elevator for a campus building...
View ArticleDaily Fantasy: Friends & Family Angle
You will notice this football season that the daily fantasy industry is hitting the marketing reset button with kinder, gentler approaches to recruiting new customers. As many of us recall, the DFS...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guests David Schwartz & Anthony Curtis
Our guests this week are Professor David Schwartz, and Anthony Curtis. We talk with David about his new book Tales From the Pit. The book contains interviews with about 20 different people that have...
View ArticleExpanding Your EV
Even the novice advantage player is familiar with the concept of EV. For the player unfamiliar with the jargon; EV stands for expected value. It is the set of equations that gives a player a way to...
View ArticleDFS: New NFL Injury Reporting System Stinks
Tracking NFL injuries is essential for daily fantasy football participants. For the 2016 season, the NFL has streamlined the injury reporting requirements for NFL teams. However, the bottom line for...
View ArticleDoes it Matter?
You’re at your favorite casino. You’ve played a lot all month and are now there for the big drawing. Here’s the way it works: Ten winners get called — they have a minute and a half to show up and...
View ArticleDFS: Drew Brees Freeroll
As fans of advantage play, we should always take advantage of a “freeroll.” As many folks reading this already know, a freeroll is an opportunity for gain when there is no risk – and we do have those...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest Terry King
The guest this week is Terry King. Terry came to Las Vegas in 1972, and became one of the first high-stakes women players in poker. She has worked as a professional player, dealer, and card room...
View ArticleDFS: Exploiting Week 1 Pricing Inefficiencies
I had been planning to discuss daily fantasy pricing inefficiencies that can found in NFL Week 1 following the third game of the preseason even before Cowboys QB Tony Romo suffered still another...
View ArticleFantasy Sports Lounge in Vikings Stadium
Among the things reported and previewed in our daily fantasy book, Fantasy Sports, Real Money, was how major sports venues were embracing fantasy sports and integrating fantasy sports into the game-day...
View ArticleI Was a BMX Voyeur
This likely will be a one-off column. It’s not about video poker. For me it’s not even about gambling, although I did make a few bucks betting on it. For me it’s about some kid I’ve known about for 20...
View ArticleDFS: Bridgewater Injury Implications
The catastrophe that befell the Minnesota Vikings yesterday in practice when starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered what is surely a season-ending knee injury (torn left ACL and dislocated) in...
View ArticleFootball Contest Details Up
Every year we break down the football contests and post the details somewhere. I say “somewhere,” because it seems like we’re forever trying to find the right spot for this information. I’m pretty sure...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest poker legend Billy Baxter #2
Our guest this week is 7 time WSOP bracelet winner Billy Baxter. Billy is one of the old-time players kicking around Vegas for 40+ years. We talk poker, sports betting, golf, pool hustling, a little...
View ArticleKaplan on the Illegal Card Rooms of NYC
Check out the latest feature for the NY Post by gambling writer Michael Kaplan, that delves deep into what he describes as the “seedy the world underground NY poker clubs” and which provides some...
View ArticleDFS Week 1: Eagles New Train Wreck Candidate
As always, the sands are shifting in the NFL and that means daily fantasy football players have to be nimble. Last week, it looked like the Minnesota Vikings were headed for a train wreck after...
View ArticleWhat Are You Trying to Get?
My niece Jessica, in her late 20s, recently married Blake. They live in Southern California. I asked them beforehand to choose their wedding present from me — either a check or a Vegas weekend. They...
View ArticleDFS: Overlay Watch Week 1
It’s hard telling whether a massive daily fantasy contest will fill up but as of Thursday morning, one of the first major DraftKings guaranteed prize pool contests of the NFL season was tracking toward...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guests Frank B and Anthony Curtis – Football Season!
The guests this week are Frank B of LVA Sports, and Anthony Curtis of the Las Vegas Advisor. It’s football season so we talk football, the new sports book apps available, and the weekly football...
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