Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm here I'm Sam Vassini. We are presented by The Athletic today on the show. It's just a little mini episode. We did essentially an hour and 40 minutes, two hours yesterday with Matt Penny talking about all of the NBA

draft prospects in the 2021 NCAA tournament. But today we're talking about something else just

near and dear to my heart. It's gambling. And there's no better person to have on to talk

gambling in college basketball than our good friend Jim Root from over at the three-man weave, Jim.

How you doing, man? It's good to have you back.

Oh, it's great to be back. I'm kicking my legs up, settling back in after we didn't have season-long pool this year,

so we didn't get to do that discussion. But, man, it's good to be back in tournament time,

talking to you. I'm very excited

right now. Yeah, I'm very excited for season long pool next year. I need it back in my life.

I just desperately need it back in my life. So we're going to talk for 30 minutes just about

gambling here on the NCAA tournament. And we're going to talk about, like, our favorite first-round matchups.

We're going to talk about picks.

This is not going to be like a crazy episode.

It's going to be like a little mini episode as much as anything.

So I guess that my first question for you, Jim, is going to be something that someone

asked me in the comments regarding my picks that I gave on the athletic.

He said, just curious how you balance

how you balance betting single tournament games

with having like multiple brackets and picks

and like money pools and futures.

That question came from Sean M on the Athletic.

So I'll ask you that question.

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