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Season 3 Episode 2 - The Guest is Jeff

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Sports

3.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In a unique episode of Bet The Process, Rufus hosts and interviews Jeff about history with the game of BlackJack and how it shaped his career, became a book and movie, and helped him became the sports gambling expert that he is.

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0:00.0

On this week's episode of Betta Process, we have a very special episode where I put on my host shoes by myself, my big boy host shoes, and Jeff is our guest.

0:11.1

And we go over the history of Jeff as a blackjack player, famous author, mingler with celebrities.

0:18.6

I'm not sure that's proper English.

0:20.3

And we discussed the lessons Jeff has learned in Blackjack and what they tell us about probability in other situations. And it's a great podcast, so I hope you listen. And with that, let's start the topic. Bet, bet, bet, bet the process.

0:42.0

Bet the process.

0:44.7

Welcome to the podcast.

0:46.2

Bet the process.

0:47.4

It's not that typical cookie cutter nonsense.

0:49.9

If you came just for picks, you're in the wrong place.

0:52.1

Find a town with the narrative to make a strong case.

0:54.9

Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking.

0:57.6

We're looking for the edge of Massey P-Body rankings,

1:00.1

crunching all the numbers in a simulator system

1:02.6

that break down the data analytically driven.

1:05.1

Media coverage, and sports gambling is pathetic.

1:08.0

The bottom-backer-process, and this is a very special one because I am hosting by myself and I have a guest, a guest that you all know.

1:17.6

For those of you who don't know, Jeff Ma is the real life inspiration for the book Bringing Down the House in the Hit Movie 21, where he's portrayed as a white guy to the chagrin of the Asian community. So, Jeff,

1:28.0

let's be fair, your alias in the book Bringing Down the House was Kevin Lewis, which isn't exactly

1:33.2

an Asian name. So anyway, after working as an options trader, Jeff has been in the startup world

1:37.9

for nearly two decades. He's founded or co-founded three different startups that he sold. He's an

1:43.0

accomplished speaker, better even than

1:45.1

Serena Williams, and was ESPN's first ever predictive analytics expert. After sent working at

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