Iconic sports bettor Billy Walters chats with Trey Elling about GAMBLER: SECRETS FROM A LIFE AT RISK. Topics include:
- Intro (0:00)
- Why Billy wrote it (1:10)
- His grandmother’s importance (2:14)
- Pool hall childhood (3:43)
- Billy’s first bet (4:55)
- His grandmother’s death (7:12)
- Becoming a teen husband/dad (9:03)
- Getting good at selling cars (14:27)
- The first trip to Vegas (18:36)
- Near-death experience (19:44)
- Why his wife Susan is so important (22:00)
- Fighting Guy Clark (24:24)
- Getting into bookmaking (27:57)
- Moving to Vegas in 1982 (30:11)
- Money management lessons (32:51)
- The Computer Group (36:23)
- Becoming enemies with Steve Wynn (41:32)
- Giving up casino games (50:37)
- Favorite golf tip (53:04)
- Winning the Pebble Beach Pro Am in 2008 (56:12)
- Being found guilty of insider trading (1:02:13)
- How prison was like sports betting (1:10:10)
- Why he shared his sports betting secrets (1:11:40)
- Working for prison reform (1:20:51)