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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…. Place your bets! Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore the ins, outs, ups, and downs of sports betting with sports writer Brett Smiley, statistics expert David Beaudoin, and Todd Fuhrman, FS1 contributor and host of the Bet the Board podcast. Photo Credit: Baishampayan Ghose [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

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0:00.0	I'm Gary A'Reilly.
0:02.0	Yeah, I'm Chuck Nice.
0:03.4	This is playing with Sias.
0:06.0	Sport has always been about numbers.
0:08.4	And what are those numbers?
0:09.6	He's coming out of the shadows and that number is 150 billion.
0:15.0	I'll take it.
0:16.0	Yes, which is the total of US dollars that is waged illegally
0:19.6	on sports bets every year in the US.
0:23.0	Wow.
0:24.0	And in 2018, the US Supreme Court gave the green light
0:27.4	to legislate sports betting.
0:29.4	What is the downside?
0:31.2	And who will ultimately win?
0:33.2	Well, to give us his considered opinion is Brett Smiley,
0:36.4	a sports writer and a former commercial litigator from New York
0:39.6	who will certainly know a thing or two about it.
0:42.2	We will also hear from David Baudoir, a PhD in statistics
0:46.2	at La Valle University in Canada,
0:48.0	who developed a program to determine the outcome of both NBA and NHL games.
0:53.8	So stay with us and certainly pay attention.
0:56.6	And rounding off our perfect trifecta is Todd Furman,
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