Chapter 1: What story does Nick Wright share about his poker night?
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Chapter 2: How did Nick's poker game impact his betting strategy?
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Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.
That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan Levitard Show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Zaslow has just returned from South Bend. I want to get some of his reporting.
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Chapter 3: What was the outcome of Nick's big bet at the poker game?
He says he was overtaken a bit, was surprised by the number of young people who are fans of the show in South Bend. Oh, so cool. That he bust in first class, bust in three hours. That was wild. Yes, first class. I was telling people about that all afternoon yesterday. Everyone loved that story yesterday. I'm glad no one thought it was like a bit or it was fake.
Like people were shocked by the story and it's completely real. Well, let's include Nick Wright on this conversation. The story is that Zaslow, who's gotten first class amenities as he deserves as part of college football coverage at the highest levels of ESPN, is expecting to fly into South Bend first class.
He gets there and it's a connecting flight because Chicago is not that close to South Bend. And the second half of his first class flight is a bus that is going three hours to South Bend. And he did not know that. And so he's looking around. Where's my first class seat? And he's on a bus.
Well, I'd love to feel badly for him, Dan, but I'm in a bad way. I'm in a bad way. Well, here.
OK, so no. So so Nick's feeling a bit.
I didn't really come. I didn't come on to hear about your stupid bus trip. To be totally honest, I came on. What happened?
What happened to Nick? No, well, what happened to Nick? So thank you, Nick, for correcting this. Nick had a big bet he made on behalf of the shipping container, and he wasn't able to cash it. He's an honorable gambler.
It's so much worse than that, Dano. It's really a lot worse. So here's the deal. It's important, I think. from a journalistic and public responsibility standpoint.
That if I'm going to come on this wildly popular show, as to your point, that young impressionable Notre Dame students are listening to, and talk about, you know, swaggering big bets with you, all these things, that they see the other side of it too. Because I imagine folks think right now I'm happy as a clam. Chiefs are back where they should be, the favorites across the board.
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Chapter 4: How does Nick reflect on his gambling experiences?
The now iconic play known as the tackle that turned the tide flipped the entire NFL season. So why am I... bordering on insolvency. Just follow me on a journey, if you would, Dan. Because I do feel badly for the shipping container. Because I really wanted them to win that $5,000 I won from you.
Such a gangster move by you and what you believe in spiritually to be able to just dump five grand cash here and there as you win big in public with big bets. I was proud of you for trying to give them a roll of gangster money.
Yeah, well, you know what we might be we might we might have to you know drop the stakes Again, I'm gonna try to get through this. So here's the full setting. Here's the full scenario I'm I am sitting on
a futures ticket that the expiration of is today that is a stone winner that was purchased at like 28 to 1 that I have I have cashed that money in my mind and it's a big enough winner that I am then giving myself the grace
to take some bigger shots like we're gonna try to run this up and so one of the shots was the poker game right after i won the lions bet with you and that poker game was bigger than i can play in i told you it was at a billionaire's penthouse that was not a lie i told you i thought i had an edge in the game that was not a lie but it was it was
bordering on irresponsible to play, but I have this piece of equity in this futures ticket that even if I lose, will cover almost all of that night. And I did lose. And because of that, I wasn't able to give the shipping container $5,000.
Which crushes you. It crushes me.
It crushes me even more when I knew it could have been Billy's goodbye present. I'm watching you cry, talk about Billy Gill. I'm getting emotional. And I almost, and thank God I didn't, I almost texted you after I saw that, just give the whole thing to Billy. I'll be fine anyway.
He's fine. He got Yeah, you can go to hell.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Nick provide about sports betting and risk?
Oh! Had I mentally spent that money? Maybe. Was I aghast and agog at so many things down the stretch of that game?
You've got to be shitting me, Nick.
I'm not. You were agog? I'm not shitting you. And here's the other piece of it that you need to understand. I take screenshots. of the cash out options and send them to my gambling consortium because I'll never cash out. Never, ever under any circumstances because it's not EV and I'm not going to do it.
But I'm texting my buddies, I'm texting your friend Adam Lefkoe, my friend Danny Parkins, look at these guys thinking I'm going to let them off the hook. But I lose. But again, it's okay. That was more what I could win than what I lost. Because I have this ticket that, again, is supposed to pay out.
Tony wants more information. Tony wants more information on this ticket that you can cash out.
Well, that's what I'm about to explain. That's what I'm about to explain, Dan. Because listen, I know this is a DraftKings show and I love DraftKings. I've done great stuff with them. I do stuff with Hard Rock.
This is, but there are certain types of wagers you can make that DraftKings and the traditional gambling outfits don't offer, which places like Kalshi and Polymarket have started to do, which is futures contracts. You can basically be like, hey, will Joe Buck say safety on Monday Night Football and you know, whatever it is. So I dabbled in that
about nine months ago and I hit a nice, nice win on a few things to where that was a real amount of money. And there's like a sports media piece of it that there's not, it's not a very vibrant market, but like for instance, the, you know, I smashed the over on Pablo Torre Peabody Award mentions post him losing it because the marketplace thought, well, he won't keep mentioning this.
He didn't win the award. So that was like over under five and a half in 2025. That cashed by August. So I've got a real amount of money in that account. And I bet no... on a bet that I will tell you what it is in just a moment. And no was trading it when I bet it at 7 cents a share. If you guys don't know how it works, a winning bet pays 100 cents, a losing bet pays zero.
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Chapter 6: What humorous moments arise from the discussion with Roy?
And as of two days ago, that was at around 91%. And this was how I was gonna pay off the poker debt. And that bet was, prior to the start of the 2025-2026 NBA season, will Stephen A. Smith do another media tour about how LeBron bullied him? And he couldn't wait a day. Another, and tour means more than one appearance. Can't just be said in passing. And the day before the start of the season.
I gotta watch this guy go on and say they didn't have the right camera angle. I gotta watch, I gotta see the pivot and then all of a sudden 7 p.m. in Brooklyn and realize my empire is crumbling because of one man's inability to take an L. And I just, Dano, I'm in a bad way.
So he suffers these things. Chris, if you think that Nick Wright is fooling around, he is looking for market inefficiencies unemotionally throughout sports.
Made a Chiefs parlay.
No, but it's a clinical business to him. It's not because he believes just that the Chiefs are that great. He thinks that he's exploiting an easy advantage.
The Chiefs bet is an emotional one. That's not analytical. I'll be honest. Most of the other bets are pretty analytical. The Chiefs parlay wasn't... Again, guys.
No, the Chiefs will slaughter a team and then be kneeling victory formation with four minutes left in the game, and they'll pull Mahomes out in the third quarter because everyone agrees, even Pete Carroll. Yep, yep, let's wrap this all up. They're a great deal better than we are. Yeah, you had all that coming, and I was loud wrong for three weeks in doubting that it would be back at all.
Yeah, but on the bright side of that, Dan, you're not broke. So, you know, I get to, I just, listen, we have to rebuild.
Okay, so you're going to chase it now because you're in... Well, you can't not.
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Chapter 7: How does Roy's experience with Tim Kurkjian illustrate his personality?
consider a ticket a winning ticket until it is won. Even if all you need for it to be a winning ticket is the biggest name in sports media to hide his utter shame and embarrassment that he got in his mind, I guess, punked on national TV nine months ago for one more day. Nick, just to put it in perspective, did you lose out on more or less than the cost of a human heart on the black market?
Well, I don't know what that cost. That seems... Well, Tony told us it's $500,000. $500K. Oh, under. Under. Did I though... Yeah, definitely under. I mean, it's not... But...
You live in a dirtier world than Tony. The human heart is more expensive than Tony. Look, I think, Tony, you might think you're more gangster than Nick Wright. Nick Wright is traveling through some regions where he could find out what a human heart costs because that's how desperate the people who are gambling against him are.
No, Dan. I lay my sword at the feet of Nick Wright. I lay my sword at the foot of Nick Wright in dirtier places than I've ever been or I can even fathom of going.
It's not just dirtier places. It's a dirty off. It's not just dirtier places. It's that Nick Wright, in order to bet an amount of money that hurts, like these stakes, he is caring deeply. He wants to be able to win so he can say, like Hellmuth, I can roll off five grand and just give it to my buddies because I took these suckers over here. It's the whole spirit of who Nick is.
Yeah, it's all true. Again, I can't tell this story publicly. I can kind of tell it. But this watch, I won in a card game.
Really? That's a presidential day date, by the way, for those watching. Day date, which means it's even more money.
Yeah, with the Onyx face and the baguettes. Yeah, I won this in a card game.
Are those factory or are those not factory? Are they aftermarket?
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the stories shared in this episode?
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