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Bob Voulgaris

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
572 total appearances

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Average was like about 8 to 10, I would say.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

17 years.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Yeah, 17 years, 15, 17 years, something like that.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Too long.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

How about that?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Yeah, I made a lot of money, for sure.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

This isn't what I inspired, though.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

This is so far removed.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

I mean, I'm not to interrupt you, but this world right now is so far removed.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

The levels I had to go to bet on sports to get accounts, to find people, cash in duffel bags in Canada, dealing with shady individuals, and then later on in life dealing with VIPs who had access to large casino accounts is so different than people who are downloading an app.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

and clicking buttons and using their credit card.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

So when I first started betting, to be clear, it was through offshore sportsbooks.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

So it was through internet sportsbooks or telephone, like 1-800 numbers.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

But there would be like ads in Pro Football Weekly, some 1-800 number, you'd go get a money order through Western Union and send it to some jabroni in the Caribbean named like Victor Sanchez or something.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

And then I graduated from that, and I would say that continued for a very, very long period of time.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Online casinos, online sports books that were not legal in America, but they called them gray area until the World Sports Exchange guys got indicted.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

That was a big thing that happened.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

And then in addition to that, when I was in Canada, I was dealing with local bookmakers,

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Yeah, I mean, my competitive advantage is that I just have like a real, real good attention to detail when I'm doing something.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

And I probably am decent at pattern recognition.