McKay Coppins

So it's even more, right?

So the whole thing is already slightly rigged against the average gambler.

And then...

you know, as he looked through those early bet slips, he said, one of the key mistakes you're making in this first week is that you're only using draft Kings to really have any chance of coming out ahead when you're gambling on sports.

It's a game of kind of exploiting microscopic edges.

So you have to shop for the best lines on any given game.

You have to look at all the different sports books, uh,

See what the lines are.

See what the VIG is.

That means like how much they're charging you for a given bet.

So one book might charge you $110 to win $100.

Another might only charge you $106.

And so you have to really pour over all these numbers and make kind of the most rational bets that you can.

But the thing that he said to me in that conversation that kind of floored me was when I asked him, if I'm starting with $10,000, what would be a successful season, right?

And I was expecting him to say, well, if you win $15,000, then you can count that as a win.

What he said to me was, he was almost confused by the question.

He said, if you win one penny, you will be in the top 2% of sports bettors.

Oh, my gosh.

And you know what?

It should have made me more nervous.