Episode 67: One-on-One with Pro Sports Bettor Rufus Peabody
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with Rufus Peabody, one of the most successful professional sports bettors of the last decade. They discuss modeling, the sports betting ecosystem, player props, parlays, the Sports Betting National Championship and lots more. Bettors of all types, from pro to recreational, will likely benefit from the conversation.
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TIMESTAMPS: Rufus’ experience with COVID-19 (1:53) | Life without sports (9:46) | Changes since gambling legalisation (11:44) | The war on touts (16:35) | Books limiting sharps (20:29) | DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship (27:09) | Betting Player Props (35:15) | Does Defense Matter? (43:05) | How big is home field advantage? (46:57) | Listener Questions (59:28)
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| 0:00.0 | And Oh, Hello and welcome to episode 67 of the official Establish-The-run |
| 0:33.0 | podcast. My name is Adam Levitan and I'm one of the co-founders here at ETR and today |
| 0:38.0 | we have a very very special guest this is a young man who's made his living |
| 0:42.4 | betting on sports for the last |
| 0:43.7 | decade he's the confirmed undisputed third best sports better in the world as we found out |
| 0:49.6 | at the sadly controversial drafting sports bay national championship |
| 0:53.9 | He has a dog's name as he's often reminded by Jeff Ma of course it is |
| 0:57.8 | Rufus poo bat peaufus pebody |
| 0:59.9 | Rufus has a go |
| 1:02.0 | Uh oh rufus pew body Jeff is never Rufous, how's it going? Uh-oh, Rufous Puyabody. |
| 1:04.0 | Jeff is never going to let that go. |
| 1:06.0 | Man. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, if you're interested in Rufus's background, I interviewed Rufus about a year ago on Daily Fantasy Edge Pod. |
| 1:17.4 | If you go to episode 261, you can hear about that, how he went to my arch rival, T.C. Williams High School. I went to W.T. Woodson and |
| 1:26.5 | their school embarrassed us repeatedly. You can hear about how Rufus went to Yale and |
| 1:31.5 | then wasted his genius brain and Yale degree by betting on sports every day for the last 10 years. |
| 1:39.0 | But anyways, episode 261 if you want to hear about that. |
| 1:42.0 | Today... |
| 1:43.0 | I would say I did the best I could with my brain, which is in a smaller market, you know, |
| 1:48.0 | I couldn't cut it with the big boys, so I had to go sports betting. |
| 1:52.0 | Anyways, we're going to skip all that background stuff. boys so I had to go to sports betting. |
| 1:58.0 | Anyways, we're going to skip all that background stuff today and mostly focus on some current issues. Again, if you want the background episode 261 on Daily Fantasy Edge. |
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