Tom's Gambling Special
A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan
Tom Vann & Dan Dennis
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
**Tom & Dan's Special Gambling Show with Guest Jeff from "The Sharp Square" Podcast**
**Today's Highlights**:
- Introduction to the **Books available in Florida**: Bovada, My Bookie, Bet Online, X bet, PPH account.
- **The Bitcoin Advantage**: The recommendation to utilize Bitcoin for transactions.
- **Shopping for Prices**: Emphasize the importance of price shopping.
- **Using Bonuses Wisely**: Exploring the strategy of not cashing out but rather using the bonuses to understand the betting system better.
- **Understanding the NFL Market**: Discussing the efficiency and shaping of the NFL betting market.
- **Do's and Don'ts of Betting**: Avoiding large uncorrelated parlays, the dangers of chasing bets to break even.
- **The 2% Rule**: Advising to bet only 2% of your total bankroll.
- **Approach to Betting**: Exploring the Top down vs. bottom up methods.
- **Key Betting Numbers**: Highlighting essential numbers in betting - 3, 7, 6, 10, 14.
- **Introduction to Wong Teasers**.
**Podcasts to Boost Your Betting IQ**:
- [The Sharp Square on BuzzSprout](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1836527)
- Circles Off Podcast: Sharp insights without the picks.
- [Even Money NFL Betting Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/even-money-nfl-betting-podcast/id898834847)
- [RJ Bell's Dream Preview](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rj-bells-dream-preview/id340903074)
- [3 and Out with John Middlekauff](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-and-out-with-john-middlekauff/id1352730623) for top-tier NFL news.
- [Deep Dive Gambling Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dive-gambling-podcast/id1270364139)
- [The Simple Handicap - NFL & Sports Betting Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-simple-handicap-nfl-sports-betting-podcast/id1435717525)
**Further Highlights**:
- The logic behind sports betting.
- The value of the closing line.
- Understanding positive EV (Expected Value) and negative EV.
- Fun betting formats like Survivor pools and super contests.
- Final Advice: If you're just in it for fun, wait until just before the game starts and then make your pick. That's when the line will be most efficient.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a show about gambling. |
| 0:03.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:04.7 | You should call it getting it out with time. |
| 0:07.2 | This is not really corporate times. |
| 0:09.7 | This is not really a mediocre time, which is our podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | It's a gambling time. |
| 0:13.8 | But this is a show that I talked to Daniel about doing just about the stuff that I've learned in gambling the past three, four years. I've really been studying. Can I use a word that I know you're not comfortable with, but I will, and then we'll get started. I feel like this is sort of a passion of yours, and I know you don't like that word. Yeah, yeah, but it's there, dude. I see you. It's my biggest hobby. It is your biggest hobby. And we have a guest on the line. |
| 0:38.4 | I think that's really cool. |
| 0:39.3 | You came prepared with notes, a guest, and this should be kind of fun. Yeah, Jeff is on the line from a Sharp Square podcast and show that he's been posting that show on our BDM gambling page for a while. And I've listened to it. And I know Jeff kind of is in the same mindset as I am when it comes to gambling. |
| 0:57.0 | Jeff, welcome to getting it out. page for a while and I've listened to it and I know Jeff kind of is in the same mindset as I am |
| 0:55.6 | when it comes to gambling. Jeff, welcome to getting it out with Tom Ben. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you. Thank you. I've been a getting it out fan for a long time now. |
| 1:03.4 | It's a huge. It's huge in the gambling space. So real quick, Jeff, what is your relationship with gambling and your show you've been doing? |
| 1:14.4 | Tell us about your background. Well, for me, gambling was my bonding with my father. He's still |
| 1:22.0 | alive. But when I was younger, eight, nine years old, he took me to the sports bars because he was betting |
| 1:29.4 | on games. And I mean, this is the late 80s, smoke-filled giant satellite dish on the roof |
| 1:36.8 | in the building. And he taught me about point spreads. And that was, as long as I've been watching football, the point spread has been in play. |
| 1:48.2 | And just, it's a skill to be able to handicap and to bet games. And it's just always fascinated me |
| 1:55.9 | to this day. And it's led to doing a lot of writing about it and doing the podcast. And it's |
| 2:05.0 | been a lot of fun. That's awesome, man. So a little bit about like, I started really getting |
| 2:10.9 | deep diving into gambling and like what, how to become good at it. Probably about 2019. |
| 2:17.3 | I'm taking it seriously right would |
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