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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week marks the 7th anniversary of the repeal of PASPA, ushering in the widescale legalization of American sports betting we enjoy today. This week on the show, Action Network hosts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter dive into a subject we’ve talked a lot about on this show the last couple years, especially this past NFL season: the decline of the underdog for bettors across multiple sports. Since the repeal of PASPA, and especially in the NFL, historically profitable underdog situations have become quite hte opposite. To help us dive into the numbers behind this trend, Evan Abrams, statistical maven and Action Network Director of Research & Media, joins the show. #Volume
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0:00.0 | You're listening to an IHeart podcast. |
0:13.9 | Welcome to the favorites, the podcast, part of the volume podcast network. |
0:17.9 | I am Chad Millman of the Action Network. |
0:19.9 | Today, I'm joined. As always, by my |
0:22.3 | co-host, my companion, my compadre, my BFF professional better. Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon. |
0:28.4 | Chad, what a magical week. The release of the schedule. It's one of my favorite weeks of the year |
0:32.6 | for a football fan. Simon, I know that over the weekend, you had planned on playing in a poker tournament |
0:42.4 | that began at 11 p.m. On Mother's Day. On Mother's Day, which is fine. Like, you know, |
0:49.1 | your mom was probably long past sleeping and you had done your duty as a son throughout the day to honor your mother. |
0:57.8 | Did you play in the poker tournament? How did it go? It did. It was the final table. That's why I was |
1:03.6 | at such a weird late hour. And there was 10 of us. I unfortunately took 8th. But going in, I was a |
1:09.7 | short stack. And I basically, I'm a weird |
1:12.7 | person with numbers chat, as you know, and 7-4-suited is my lucky favorite hand. |
1:17.8 | I think I was the fourth blind in, so I was maybe two guys already been knocked out, and |
1:24.7 | then I was at this point to small blind, so I'm already invested and get the seven four suited had to shove guy at pocket tens and basically got very |
1:34.9 | lucky on the river I basically flop trips and this guy rivers the 10 so it's fun it's gambling |
1:41.9 | yeah but it was just a classic B2 where as soon as I saw his hand and I got the trips on the flop, |
1:48.0 | I go, well, this is a dead hand. |
1:49.0 | I'm going to lose this. |
1:50.0 | There's no way. |
1:51.0 | It never, you never want to flop it. |
1:53.0 | But yeah, it's something I love doing the off season and we'll see. |
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