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)