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The Girlies Guide To Gambling Pt 2 with Motoi Pearson | INTERVIEWS

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

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For part two of The Girlies Guide to Gambling, Haley and Jordan sit down with Motoi Pearson, senior trader at Wynn Bet. Motoi is part of the team that actually sets the gambling lines for Wynn Bet. Haley and Jordan ask him about how he found himself in the line-setting business, what he takes into account when setting lines, and decompressing from sports during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all had really good points.

0:01.5

Okay.

0:02.0

Probably except for Harry, I would say.

0:08.0

Welcome to spinsters, a podcast where we love to talk about gambling and walks.

0:12.7

This is Matoi Pearson.

0:14.5

That was great.

0:15.1

That was like 10 out of 10.

0:16.4

It's great job.

0:18.3

You're a podcast host.

0:20.4

Oh, my goodness. We were all betting for you.

0:25.1

Okay. Well, okay, so do you, can you introduce yourself? And then I want to know before anything,

0:32.2

how does somebody get into this job? Oh, well, my name is Matoi Pearson. I'm a senior trader at Winbet.

0:41.0

Somehow I got this job, which is I think I'm pretty fortunate to have it in the first place.

0:45.2

Number one, you know, I'm from Las Vegas originally. So, you know, I'm not really too

0:52.1

prone to, you know, I wasn't gambling when I was young or anything, but my dad kind of, you know, he, I love sports my whole life and my dad got me into it. And I think I was in like third or fourth grade when, like, he taught me about, you know, I think the Packers and Raiders were playing like a Monday night game. He's like, yeah, I got, I got some money on it, you know, something small. I said you could bet on the games and he's like, yeah, like he's showing me this sheet of paper with like the point spreads

1:14.7

and the games. And he's like, yeah, like, he's showing me this sheet of paper with like the point spreads and totals. And like, I was like, this can't be right. You know, I was actually more entertained with like, who made these numbers? Like, how could the Packers be a six point favorite? He goes, oh, I don't really know. You know, he's like being honest with me.

1:27.7

I'm a kid. I'm doing like my homework next to him while he's watching the game. He's drinking a beer.

1:43.9

And, you know, I was kind of hooked from then on out. I wasn't gambling at the time, but I was like paying attention to it while my dad was doing it. And when I got into high school, that's when I kind of started getting to some, you know, like pools and stuff like that for betting.

1:46.0

And, you know, a lot of my friends love sports too.

1:44.7

So that grew into me. I started getting to some, you know, like pools and stuff like that for betting. And, you know,

1:50.4

a lot of my friends love sports too. So that grew into me, you know, getting out of college.

1:58.8

I worked like a bunch of retail jobs before. I was 21. And then I applied for like 15 casino jobs to be a writer, a sports writer. Oh, okay.

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