The Risk Takers Podcast

The boys get political in this one, as Liam (https://x.com/iabvek) takes us through the world of election betting while wondering the streets of Peru.0:00 - Introduction1:50 - How Liam Got Into Election Prediction Markets4:20 - Understanding The Trading Process14:12 - How This Year’s Midterms Transpired18:23 - What Does Probability Represent In Election Markets?20:19 - Separating Political Beliefs From Biases24:44 - Liam’s Trading Process Timeline30:40 - Thoughts On Public Election Models34:52 - Interpreting The Polls38:01 - Closing Questions42:04 - SP’s Experiences in Election Prediction MarketsWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

This week GP & SP talk about how they keep an eye on their automated PM trading via alerts and dashboards. Golf tournaments getting shortened is back in the news with the same spot popping up as Pebble Beach 2024. And the NBA softens on prediction markets.0:30 — Introduction1:44 — Monitoring prediction-market activity6:18 — Building a trading dashboard10:06 — Managing positions and risk16:38 — Trade tapes, alerts, and market flow29:15 — Prediction Markets News55:12 — Listener QuestionsWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

Today we are joined by Liam Kane of Kane Analytics to discuss his grind from a Bet365 trader to a market maker providing liquidity on multiple exchanges.0:00 - Introduction1:41 - How Liam Got Started10:33 - The Life Of A Sports Trader31:23 - The Process of Scaling Up39:34 - Succeeding Now And In The Future1:09:10 Listener Questions Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

The lost tapes. A lot of people have asked for the BetBash episode as we did sell out the Sphere and only 20,000 people could see it live. This is the episode & a short intro. Interesting to see how out of date some of the takes could seem seeing as they are only two months old.Just a note - thank you to Spanky for letting us do this live pod. It was the highlight of a great event. We would recommend Bet Bash to most of our audience and hope to see everyone there next year!Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

This week GP and SP get deep on questions about morality and if work life balance even is real. Then we discuss injury protection coming to PMs!0:00 - Introduction3:30 - Learning To Be Content With Performance22:05 - The Morality and Ethics of Sports Betting38:28 - This Week in Projection Market News 54:59 - Web Scraping & Terms of Service 58:04 - Explaining How Strikeout Markets Make Money1:02:25 - Preventing Chasing Bets Into AddictionsWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

Join the Predictions Cup: https://predictionscup.com/Today we are joined by Ric Best, who runs one of the biggest prediction market desks in the world - Susquehanna Predictions. If you have ever wanted to get a peek behind the curtain on how the big boys operate, this is your chance. Please consider joining Susquehanna's Predictions Cup - a prediction market contest for students that carries a $30k top prize! 0:00 Ric's background15:32 Betting on prediction markets36:15 Building the team53:16  How SIG trades1:45:33 Big positions and what's next Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

In this episode - GP & SP drop some hot takes. GP thinks his are actually hot takes this time. And a big news week that includes the Kalshi wash trading allegations, Polymarket & DraftKings in the news for the wrong reasons and the bizarre ACR withdrawal terms that locked up customer funds.0:00 Hot takes35:30 News1:15:00 Q&AWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

Pre-Order "Advantage Player": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826945/advantage-player-by-gina-fiore/This week GP and SP sit down w/ Gina Fiore, one of the most prolific winners in the history of advantage play. Gina has won counting cards, hole carding, edge sorting, playing slots, poker, sports, casino bonus play and other moves across a successful AP career. A career so interesting that HBO is making a show out of her memoir "Advantage Player" that is being released next month. Please pre-order to help Gina out because we promise you will be reading this book - it's so good!0:00 Intro07:00 Card Counting15:00 Hole Carding & Advanced AP50:30 Edge Sorting1:01:30 Team Play1:14:00 Going Public & AP Life1:39:00 Q&AGina's Substack: https://substack.com/@rxgamble?r=3xlh0k&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=lightWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

SP and GP go through all of the software they are currently using in the prediction market trading and why they think it's useful. News is spicy with the incorrect settlement of the Mich/WMU that lead to absolute chaos on Kalshi and the long downtime of Poly US on the first college football saturday.0:00 Tech Stack30:30 College Football PM Chaos1:12:28 Underdog Announcement1:23:15 Listener Q&AWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013

GP & SP sit down with Richard Lee - a PM trader that came a different route than most of our guests. Richard built his trading firm before PMs as a market maker of meme coins back in the 2017 crypto boom. After that he tried to build his own prediction market, before deciding the better decision was to just trade on the existing ones.0:00 Intro to Advantage Play11:00 Crypto Market Making33:45 Transition to Prediction Markets1:13:00 Listener Q&AWelcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best betting education available - PERIOD. And it's free - please share and subscribe if you like it.Follow SportsProjections on Twitter: https://x.com/Sports__ProjFollow GP on Twitter: https://x.com/goldenpants013