Episode 42: One-on-One with Taylor Caby
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with Taylor Caby, a nosebleed-stakes NFL DFS player and a co-founder of Establish The Run. They touch on Taylor's rise to the top of the poker world, starting successful businesses in the gambling space, running a DFS site (RIP DraftDay), the current state of the DFS/sports betting industry and lots more.
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TIMESTAMPS: Taylor’s Poker Beginnings (3:42) | Transition to DFS (7:44) | Are games getting tougher for pros? (13:19) | Challenges to the industry (19:44) | The State of the DFS industry (27:30) | Taylor’s Sportsbook background (34:50) | The future of Sports Betting (42:25) | Establish The Run (44:14)
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| 0:00.0 | And So, Hello and welcome to episode 42 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. My name is Adam Leavitan. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm one of the co-founders here at ETR and today we are joined by one of the true trailblazers in the gambling streets. |
| 0:45.2 | This is a young man who reached the top of the high stakes online poker world about 15 years ago |
| 0:50.5 | as green plastic. |
| 0:51.6 | Young man who started one of the first poker |
| 0:53.8 | training sites in card runners, young man who started the DFS site, draft |
| 0:58.6 | day, been playing nosebleed stakes DFS since shutting that site down held the title of |
| 1:04.7 | director of sportsbook for Rust Street Gaming has his own Wikipedia page for |
| 1:09.8 | goodness sakes and now his greatest challenge yet helping Evan and I on the business side of |
| 1:15.7 | established and run.com it is of course Taylor Kaby. Taylor what's going on |
| 1:20.2 | buddy? Thanks for the introduction and I'm glad you called me a young man because going on |
| 1:23.3 | but I'm glad you called me a young man because that makes me feel good but I feel |
| 1:26.7 | like I'm a grizzled veteran of the gambling industry by now. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, we're gonna get into of that. I got to know or became aware of Taylor when he was climbing to the top of kind of the heads-up-no-limit world in poker and then we started card runners I got to know him a little bit there by doing actually an interview which is wild but I did an interview with one of my first jobs was at Metro newspaper. We ran like a gambling page |
| 1:53.7 | and I was obviously into poker and I did an interview |
| 1:56.5 | with Taylor way back then and fast forward. |
| 1:59.3 | I don't know, 12 years or something like that. |
| 2:01.7 | And now we're working on established and runs together. |
| 2:03.8 | So life comes full circle sometimes. |
| 2:07.2 | The goal of this pod, this interview, this discussion, |
| 2:11.2 | is just to talk through some of the industry stuff that's going on also |
| 2:13.5 | get to Taylor's background but talk through a lot of the industry stuff that's going on obviously the state of |
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