Pablo Torre

ESPN called Bob in 2013, quote, the world's top NBA gambler.

Meaning that, yes, he is the only NBA better who became an NBA executive in large part because of his success betting.

He also is a highly competitive poker player and now the owner and operator of that European soccer team that he mentioned in Spain.

But what is crucial to establish here is that Bob Vulgaris got insanely rich off of gambling long before the U.S.

Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in May 2018.

meaning that when Bob was becoming the guy that every legal sports gambler you know is now striving to be, there were no betting slips, no legal receipts for his millions to frame.

Right.

Okay.

So for about how long?

I'm trying to do the math.

But we're getting into very clearly the nine-figure winnings territory is what we're talking about.

Yeah, just like the trajectory of guy without money who is desperately trying to get some to guy who uses sports gambling, particularly on the NBA, to get more than he ever dreamed.

And now he's in this position in front of this fake-ass bookshelf in which you can survey the world that you kind of inspired on the internet, people trying to be like you.

The way, though, that you had to do it, put us in the timeline here.

When did you place your first NBA bet so we can get a sense of what you had to do from there?

But the idea that the NBA is the thing you're going to start putting these bets on such that you have a facility with it.

What was the reason why you chose the NBA?

And what was, if you were to diagnose it in retrospect, what was your competitive advantage?

Why were you actually good at this?

You're trying to find patterns in all of these games and you're sifting through as granular data as you can get.