This week we interview long-time professional gambler Adam aka BeagleBets (https://x.com/thebeaglebets).

Adam quickly rose to the top of the Heads Up SNG ladder, playing $5k buy-ins before dropping out of college to pursue poker full time. From there his career spanned many eras, which got him to where he is today: betting NBA Player Props and betting live sports. Adam is a very kind to share an honest account of the ups and downs of life as a professional bettor, along with advice to those who want to do this full-time but maintain a family and personal life. So much fun to record this one.

0:00 Intro

2:30 Start with advantage play

5:00 Full-time poker

13:15 Adding sports when poker got tougher

22:30 Building sims & scaling sports betting

30:15 Manually betting NBA player props

50:30 Transition to live betting

1:04:20 How to have a long betting career

1:21:40 Q&A

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In this episode the boys talk about how to go about selecting props & derivatives markets to focus on and how to get started w/ modeling these. The Pick6 past-post scandal takes up a good chunk of the news and the Q&A is very meaty!

0:00 How to Pick Props to Bet

27:00 DK Pick6 Past-post

45:45 Other News

1:01:45 Q&A

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You may know him from Bet The Process. You may know him as Dogname atop the Kalshi leaderboard. You may know him as the best golf bettor (RIP GP) around...

Rufus Peabody joins the show this week to talk about his betting philosophy and his recent adventure into prediction markets. He's been winning at sports betting since 2008, and is still at the very top of the betting ecosystem today. Must listen!

0:00 Intro

2:00 Starting in Betting

17:00 Going out on Own

23:00 Getting Started w/ Golf

28:30 Exploring New Sports

43:00 What is Rufus' edge?

1:101:15 Prediction Markets

1:32:55 Q&A

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We cap off the year with a fun episode where SP and GP recap their 2025 betting year before setting some 2026 goals. The episode ends with 2026 industry predictions and some sappy feelings.

0:00 Intro

6:00 2025 Recap

22:10 2026 "Ins & Outs"

1:07:30 2026 Predictions

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We did it. We bagged another big guest's first ever podcast appearance. You may know Louie from Twitter (https://x.com/LMastro99) - but if you don't, he has had great success on both sides of the counter as a sportsbook trader and NBA originator. He started at FanDuel before being one of the first people to join NoVig and growing their trading team w/ former guest BigBuckHunter.

0:00

1:30 Getting started with FanDuel

22:30 Leaving FD for NoVig

30:50 Internal Market Making

46:45 Modeling Philosophy

1:13:00 The 3 P's Of Betting

1:17:00 Tout Thoughts

1:32:20 Biggest Exchange Money Makers

1:41:00 Q&A

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Today we rip a hot takes episode and talk about how Kalshi has just invented the Parlay. Tons of great questions at the end - thanks for all those who asked a question!

0:00 Intro

2:20 Hot Takes

35:00 News

58:30 Questions

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This could be consider our first full Prediction Market focused guest. CSP Trading was an early MM on prediction markets before we had even heard of them. He walks us through the history of PMs through his experience trading on them and growing with the space to where they are now.

0:00 Getting Started in PMs

13:24 Early Prediction Market War Stories

37:45 Insider Trading in PMs

45:00 Getting Into Sports

56:30 Market Making Strategies

1:33:00 Q&A

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SP and GP talk about times being manual has made them more money than being automated and have a huge post-mortem on the old version of Pick6 where they both lay out most of their strategies. News is crazy as always - Poly US coming, Kalshi & Robinhood breakup, Prime plays it straight w/ winning bettors.

Then a big Q&A!

0:00 Intro

1:15 Why Being Manual is Sometimes Better Than Being Automated

22:20 Pick6 Tell-All

44:00 News

1:23:15 Q&A

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