Episodit
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 42, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a two-part discussion with the professional player that goes by the Twitter/X handle of InsideThePylons (ITP).
2 β Anatomy of a bad ticket
10 β Building Equity
19 β Understanding Usage
21- Separating from the crowd
29- Leveraging a bad favorite
33- The right way to spread
35- Quality Control
49 β Exploiting biases in sequences
59 β Understanding the crowd
1:08 β Playing carryovers
1:10 β Playing smaller pools
1:17 β Donβt be afraid to pass
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 41, sponsored by AmWager, which is a special release about the National Horseplayers' Championship (NHC) with Paul Shurman.
3- Horseplayer Origin Story
13- Handicapping approach
15 β Playing in contests
19 β Playing in the NHC
26 - Choosing which horses to play in NHC
31 - Playing shorter-priced horses in the NHC
38 - The right time to panic at the NHC
40 β Beginning at the end
42 β Playing the final few contest races
46 β Playing mandatory races at the NHC
56 β Playing 2 entries at the NHC
1:10 β Playing to win
1:21 β Pick and Pray contest format
1:26 β Picking the right contest to enter
1:29 β Live betting contests
1:55 β More advice on contests
1:59 β It pays to be organized
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 40, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 2 of a 2-part discussion with professional computer horseplayer Dennis Montoro
3 β Pool Selection
8 β Market liquidity
10 β Living off CAW crumbs
14 β Market efficiency
15 β Betting to win
17 β Directional approach / Bayesian thinking
20 β Fair odds
30 β Is your edge too good to be true?
47 β Betting exacta-ly
53 β Fading favorites
1:02 - Projecting off odds
1:18 β Lessons from the CAW-free NYRA win pool
1:25 β How sports betting differs from parimutuel betting
1:33 β Contest betting
1:42 β Record keeping and pitfalls of back testing
1:48 β Why share insights with fellow players?
1:53 β Advice to new players
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 39, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a two-part discussion with professional player Dennis Montoro.
3 - What is a computer model?
10- Price discovery/estimation
11- Data with an edge
19 - Seesaw markets
24- Betting horses is like buying a microwave oven
30 - Man vs machine
35- Pools full of data
39 - Race selection β less is more
53 - Benefits of taking a vacation
57- Horizontal challenges
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 38, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 2 of a 2-part Deep Dive in which we talk in depth about speed and pace figures with Craig Milkowski.
2:30 β Making pace figures
10:00 β Run ups
13:00 β Combining speed and pace figures
15:00 β Sierra Leone or Fierceness?
20:00 β Ground loss
25:00 β GPS measurement
33:00 β Weight
43:00 β Difficult races for making figures
45:00 β Accuracy of speed figures
48:00 β Fastest figure he has ever given
49:00 β Flightline
50:00 β Service and Navarro
55:00- Using figures
58:00 β Track biases
1:05 β Betting
1:09 β Doubles
1:14 β Figure making is getting tougher
1:19 β Hong Kong figures
1:23 β Improving the game
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 37, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a 2-part Deep Dive in which we talk in depth about speed and pace figures with Craig Milkowski.
3 - Horseplayer origin story
16 - Making speed figures
26 - Using projection to make figures
31 - Splitting the variant for a day
35 - Projecting figs for 3yos
39 - Shrinking figures
41- Comparing historical figures
44 - Making turf figures
1:00 β Making synth figures
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 36, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part-2 of a 2-part Deep Dive with BCBC Champ and author of the book "A Bettor Way of Thinking," Matt Miller, about the Breeders' Cup and the BCBC.
3- BCBC Strategy
6- Minimum Bet Strategy
15- βValueβ in a contest
22- 3 reliable winners
33- Risk pyramid
34- Playing Doubles
37- Playing Exactas
45- The last race
59- How Matt won the BCBC
1:09 β Playing smaller contests
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 35 of the Bet With the Best Podcast (Sponsored by AmWager). Part 1 of a conversation with BCBC Champ and author of the book "A Bettor Way of Thinking," Matt Miller, discussing the Breeders' Cup and the BCBC.
4- βBettorβ Way of Thinking
10- Blackjack or Wheel of Fortune
12- Knowing your opponent
19- Addressing your weaknesses
22- Picking your spots
27- Set a target and play with monopoly money
45- 2>1
1:00 - Looking for Sunday Silence vs Easy Goer
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 34, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part-2 of a Deep Dive with computer model player Keith Bush about handicapping and betting on races from Hong Kong:
3 β Fed up with US Racing
7- Pivot to Hong Kong
11- HK Basics
15 - HK class system
30- Betting on HK
40- Watching HK Racing
41 β HK Computer Model
58 β Finding edges
1:08 β Trainer intent in HK
1:15 β racing.hkjc.com
1:18 β Jockey behavior
1:20 β What US can learn from HK
1:25 β Open Source Equus Model
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 33, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part-1 of a Deep Dive with computer model player Keith Bush about handicapping and betting on races from Hong Kong:
3 β Horseplayer Origin Story
10- Building a model from scratch
12- Start by understanding the data
13- The bad data blues
15 β Speed figures
20- Weight matters
37 β The two types of models
42- Building Equus
53- End of Part 1
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 32, which is Part-2 of a Deep Dive into handicapping and betting on races at Saratoga, with racing analyst David Aragona. Bet With the Best is Sponsored by AmWager:
2 - Horses for Courses
4 - Factors baked into price
6 - Trip handicapping
7 - Workouts
21 - Making a morning line
23 - Finding an edge
28 - Vertical bets
31 - Horizontal bets
39 - Trifectas
41 - Weak favorites
46 - CAWs and NYRA win pool
59 - Best advice for players
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 31, which is Part-1 of a Deep Dive into handicapping and betting on races at Saratoga, with racing analyst David Aragona. Bet With the Best is Sponsored by AmWager:
3 - horseplayer origin story
12 - Why Saratoga is a special place
19 - Saratoga Turf Sprints
24 - The one-mile Wilson Chute
30 - Kickback
35 - Saratoga Turf Course
37 - Off tracks
40 - Off-the-turf races
42 - 2yo races
50 - Trusting your gut
53 - Pointing to Saratoga
57- Saratoga class droppers
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 30, Part 2 of our discussion with guest Len Friedman (Sponsored by AmWager):
3- Turf Racing
15 - Synthetic Racing
20 - Vertical Betting
35 - The 4 quadrants of horseplaying
43 - Horizontal Betting
1:11 - Keeping Records
1:16 - Turf Sprints
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 29 Part 1 with guest Len Friedman (Sponsored by AmWager):
3 - Horseplayer Origin Story
6 - Intro to The Sheets
15 - Sheet patterns
19 - Condition Handicapping
24 - Why horses sometimes βbounceβ
27- Drug Trainers and the βbounceβ
30 - The Sheets impact on training methods
34 β Layoff Patterns
46 β Developing horses
1:05 β Finding horses to toss
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 28, Part-2 of a Deep Dive into how to watch horse races with Ryan Flanders Sponsored by AmWager:
3- The whip
12- Changing leads
24- The break
25- Kickback
27- 3-wide scenarios
31- Moves
33- Jockeys ride with their legs
35- Prat vs Irad
43- What makes a good rider?
49- Synthetic racing
59- Speed duel
1:02- Rail post
1:04- From bad start to big score
1:07- Race watching process/tools
1:16- Bias
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 27, Part-1 of a Deep Dive into how to watch horse races with Ryan Flanders Sponsored by AmWager:
3- Horseplayer Origin Story
14- Value of trips
16- Trips and CAW teams
19- Race watching basics
25- Pace makes the race
29- Dirt vs Turf
33- The fake-fast pace
36- Accordion flow
38- The 2-wide tracking trip
41- The 3-wide stalker
44- Jockey intent
59- Horse comfort
1:11- Gallop out
1:23- Stride cadence
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 26, Part-2 of a Deep Dive into how to bet the Kentucky Derby with Mike Maloney Sponsored by AmWager:
3 β Win bets
9- Place and Show bets
16- Exacta Bets
34- Double key Exactas and tris
39 - $1 min Derby Superfecta Bets
1:00 β Horizontal Bets
1:16 β Pressing a βliveβ P5 with a P4 or a P3
1:23 β Having a plan and sticking to it
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 25 Part-1 a Deep Dive into how to handicap the Kentucky Derby with Mike Maloney Sponsored by AmWager:
3 β General approach to Derby
8- Finding a key horse or horses
20 β Impact of the Derby Points System
23- Finding the βpush buttonβ horse
26 β Getting the Derby Distance
38- Finding signal in all the Derby noise
47- Running styles, post-position, and trips
1:01 β Great Derby rides by Jerry Bailey
1:08 β The dreaded rail post position
1:16 β The Trainer factor
1:32 β Workouts
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 24 sponsored by AmWager with guest Paul Shurman.
3- Horseplayer Origin Story
13- Handicapping approach
15:30 β Playing in contests
19:00 β Playing in the NHC
26 - Choosing which horses to play in NHC
31 β Playing shorter-priced horses in the NHC
38- The right time to panic at the NHC
40 β Beginning at the end
42 β Playing the final few contest races
46 β Playing mandatory races at the NHC
56 β Playing 2 entries at the NHC
1:10 β Playing to win
1:21 β Pick and Pray contest format
1:26 β Picking the right contest to enter
1:29 β Live betting contests
1:55 β More advice on contests
1:59 β It pays to be organized
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Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 23 sponsored by AmWager with guest Barry Meadow. A professional horseplayer and author of many publications including the books βMoney Secrets at the Racetrack,β and the βThe Skeptical Handicapper.β
3 - Horseplayer Origin Story
10 - From Harness to thoroughbreds
14 - Watching replays
17 - Rating horses
20 - Making a fair odds line
23 - Bet sizing
27 - Keeping records
30 - Exchange betting
37 - Vulnerable favorites
39 - Finding value
42 - Positive attitude
45 - Pick 6
58 - CAW
1:02 - Why are you playing?
1:04 - Getting started
1:10 - Factors that matter
1:14 - More on bet sizing
1:29 - What is a winning player?
1:33 - βTurning downβ a profit
1:35 - Testing your odds line
1:37- Blackjack
1:45 - ADW Promotions
1:49 - Improving the game
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