The BashCast

The BashCast Episode 194 - Handicap Spot

Agenda:

 

• Tom suffers a warm up injury ahead of Mindless Wanderers v Wychbold Old Boys Charity match
• Bookiebashing support system gets a revamp
• New model – Handicaps tool
• England Women v Switzerland Women – is the lack of confidence in modelling a good thing or a bad thing?
• Tom wins a $7.50 1,068 person heads up hyper turbo bounty tournament for $1,360 in bounties whilst babysitting

 

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The BashCast Episode 193 - Blissful ignorance

 Agenda:

• Tom goes camping and doesn't know he hit a winner in the golf for days
• Tom meets a group of 6-a-side lads discussing their terrible recreational mug bets on the PGA, doesn't know what to say
• Bookiebashing Charity 7-a-side to be held on the 24th June: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mindless-wanderers-ukraine-fundraising
• 20 DDHH bets at 90% ROI to review
• Both Bologna and Verona score in each half with outrageous value on the shop coupons
• Why NatWest want to kill babies

 

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The BashCast Episode 192 - Charity is a coat you wear twice a year

Agenda:

1. Tom goes to turkey and gets annoyed by British tourists and then scammed
2. The SBC Betting Awards:T Pete Ling joins us for a chat
3. Golf betting: why you can't trust anybody
4. Double Delight Hattrick Heaven: how to calculate the EV
5. Why you're a prick: Part 4

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The BashCast Episode 191 - CraftKings and Augusta

 Agenda:

• Tom experiences a -EV trip to HobbyCraft after flirting with a 75 year old
• A BookieBashing subscriber hits the largest win of his betting career
• FTSIncome hold a networking event in Manchester and we were invited to join them
• The art of Edge Identification – 5 different types of Edge in Sports Advantage Play
• US Masters preview – Metrics, each way betting, to win, first round leader and Fantasy Draft Golf selections

 

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The BashCast Episode 190 - In God we Trost

Agenda

1. Neil Channing writes about a once in a generation chance to get things right
2. We don’t lose golf playoffs! But what percentile are we running hot on them?
3. A breakdown of how to quantify the risk of a player not starting
4. Jason Trost joins us on the BashCast to discuss a heap of Smarkets related topics
5. Smarkets and Bookiebashing both experience Cheltenham Day 1 downtime

 

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The BashCast Episode 189 - Lucky 15s, Headbutts and FGS

Agenda

1. Tom gets headbutted by a three year old
2. Tom gets threatened by a guy in a polo shirt
3. Tom gets threatened outside a club in a skiing resort
4. Nathan from OddsHawk joins us to discuss the Oddshawk API feed for horse racing - available to all
5. Are multiples better than singles? What is the best multiple?
6. Value betting First Goalscorer on the exchange

 

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The BashCast Episode 188 - Chilli Margaritas and Problem Gambling

Agenda

1. Problem gambling and restrictions
2. Tom orders 3 chilli margaritas in Bali
3. Malaysian businessman sues Aspinalls for £3.9 million
4. Stephen Chidwick is better at poker than you are

 

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The BashCast episode 187 - Several Standard Deviants

Agenda:

1. Tom is fed up with the all the new gambling prohibition groups that have cropped up

2. A trip to Simply Red involves a -EV experience with a tout

3. The Player xG model evolves, goes backwards, but makes money regardless

4. Bet365 enter the boosts market, value around for those providing liquidity to the arbys

5. Win both Halves celebrates its 1,000th bet birthday so we look at ROI and potential improvements

6. Something quite extraordinary happens across the last 7 golf tournaments

 

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The BashCast Episode 186 - A Brief History of Bashing

Agenda

1. After 2.5 years Tom is wearing glasses again, and has a disaster on Day 1
2. Coronavirus hits the team
3. A history of BookieBashing and a timelines of tools and trackers
4. How we create an edge in Shots on Target bets both at bookmaker and on exchange
5. Bankroll Management - an analysis of Unit Loss, Unit Win and Kelly staking plans on real life betting histories
6. Why You're A Prick returns

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The BashCast Episode 185 - The African Cup of Unders 2022

In this weeks Agenda:

1. Stupid bike guy tries to ruin Toms Christmas
2. Losing runs through the festive period
3. Virtual Doubles and insane variance
4. The FA Cup 3rd Round re-capped
5. Unlucky Lucky 15 (horses) and an £18,000 change of mind
6. Lucky Lucky 15 (football)
7. The African Cup of Unders 2022
8. Andrew Woodman off of Politics joins us for a chat about Single Customer View, Source of Wealth and changes in legislation

 

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The BashCast Episode 184 - Christmas Special: Trench Warfare

A Festive BashCast Christmas Chatter with Matthew Trenhaile:

1. Modelling expected goals
2. Modelling BTTS in big fav/dog games
3. Market compilation and why you can't be a hero
4. Artificial Intelligence in profiling customers
5. Markov Chains in Tennis Modelling
6. Winning without beating the closing line
7. Rebasing inplay
8. The softness of half time numbers
9. ROI vs Odds Magnitude
10. Exactly how did East 17s Brian Harvey run over his own foot

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The BashCast Episode 183 - Probably the most annoying opening podcast audio of all time

Agenda

1. Tom wins the Selly Oak Shield for the first time in history
2. Success on the #WhatOddsPaddys in the World Cup Qualifiers and why we should be looking forward to these games
3. Ireland vs New Zealand
4. Portugal vs Serbia
5. Three different concepts for managing runners - the Orwellian, Thatcherite and Marxist forms of managing a gambling team
6. 180s and 170s in the PDC World Championship 2022

 

 

The BashCast Episode 182 - Joseph Buchdahl - Monte Carlo or Bust

Betting analyst and author Joseph Buchdahl joins the BashCast for a chat about:

1. The Monte Carlo Casino, August 18th 1913
2. Monte Carlo or Bust - the writing process
3. The Wisdom of the Crowd Betting Theory
4. Bias - is estimating bias Maths, Science, Art or a bit of all?
5. Monte Carlo Simulations and why every bettor should choose them
6. Where the Sharps are - using a Weibull probability distribution for estimating goals in football
7. Pinnacle Articles - the writing process
8. Libertarianism vs gambling - should we be free to decide how much we can bet?

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The BashCast Episode 181 - McLovin Never Existed

Agenda

1. DraftKings Equity in Golf and the FBWC Farcical Betting World Championships 2021
2. England vs Andorra - calculating BTTS in difficult markets when a team is very unlikely to score
3. Interview with McLovin - bookiebashing member McLovin joins us to discuss technology, artificial intelligence and OCR and how we can see a vast improvement and increase in the value and equity from coupons moving forward

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The BashCast Episode 180 - I Fought the Law & the Law of Entropy Won

Agenda

 

1. Tom is involved in a near car crash and loses his cool
2. Busting a bankroll - it happens to the best of us
3. RIP Great Sports Offers
4. Experimental Coupons - on the search for value in new markets
5. Patterns in randomness and the horse racing tracker ROI
6. Why You're a Prick Returns

 

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The BashCast Episode 179 - Keeping The British End Up

This weeks agenda

1. Tom discusses his weekend from hell
2. Mistakes in betting - accuracy vs volume
3. 0 letters in the mailbag. Please send any praise, questions, critique or money to tom@bookiebashing.net
4. An insane tweet and a need for an Institute amongst gamblers
5. The next Bond - an update!

The BashCast Episode 178 - Gaius Appuleius Diocles

This weeks agenda

1. Cristiano Ronaldo returns to the Premiership - we discuss options for modelling Player xG and AGS prices, and a huge exchange price on the Newcastle match
2. The flip side of golf - a downswing in results recently.
3. 2 letters in the mailbag. Please send any praise, questions, critique or money to tom@bookiebashing.net
4. NFL Half TIme Points

 

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The BashCast Episode 177 - Calm people live, drunk people cry.

This weeks agenda:

1. Wolves vs Man Utd - wolves are dominant

2. Super Sunday - low volume, high variance in August

3. Tom is furious with a £3k Lucky 15 winner

4. Toms wifes drunk friend turns up at a wedding

5. Two golf winners on the same day

6. Mailbag + a discussion of Discord as a communication platform

7. Betting football coupons for profit 

8. Salerntina vs Roma in Serie A

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The BashCast Episode 176 - A National Service

This weeks Agenda

1. A history of golf at the Olympics
2. Korean Military Service
3. Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery
4. Glorious Goodwood and Favourite Friday

 

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The BashCast Episode 175 - William Hill Litigation

This weeks Agenda

1. Freedom day arrives, but has anything changed?
2. A new bet tracker to be unveiled at bookiebashing capable of tracking a heap more live lines
3. William Hill Court Case - BookieBashers ? - William Hill ?
4. Reasons why you're a pick

 

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The BashCast Episode 174 - Ooooh yes sir

This weeks Agenda

1. A recap of FGS steamer hunting in Week 1 of the Euros
2. Quick betting at Ascot, and another Lucky 15 a horses whisker away from a quarter million
3. Another winner in the golf - we look at Variance and ask are we running hot, and if so by how much?
4. Yes Sir
5. I can boogie
6. All night long

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The BashCast Episode 173 - Euros 2021 Preview

Agenda 9th June 2021

 

1. Wizard of Odds Tweets out a each way betting exam challenge
2. Each way betting on horse racing
3. Each way betting on golf
4. Euros 2020 Preview Segment
5. Angry man Joey Knish gets restricted by Barstools supports
6. A class action lawsuit from gamblers vs PayPal
7. Upcoming sport

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The BashCast Episode 172 – Your Mother is a Tropical Cyclone

The BashCast returns with a fresh look

 

Agenda 28th May 2021

 

1. The Stamford Experiments + Toms local landlady
2. Golf Singles, Doubles and Cink+Catlin land on the same day
3. DDHH with Joelinton
4. Shop Coupons – 500/1 clean sweep
5. Lucky 15s; we miss out on £218,000 by a single place
6. Tom gets into an altercation with an elderly man in a car park and has to run away
7. Cryptocurrencies – volatility, Elon Musk and legitimacy as an investment strategy

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The BashCast Episode 171 - I want to know Zalatoris

A short recap of the 2021 Masters and then we look at the performance of Lucky 15s on the horse racing tracker - both my recent form and an independent viewpoint. After the break; Matchbook behaving like arses, and arbers behaving like arses. Is there any point to them? Is there any point to any of this? Hate it or love it just bet at 100.1 and above.

The BashCast Episode 170 - Anytime Goalscorer Steam

This week we chat about steams and drifts in the AGS market and how Tom is using this to explore possible edges in a Player xG model. This is followed by a brief chat about the shops reopening next week. After the break - a judgement in the Betfred Casino case, and a US Sportsbettor has funds confiscated by William Hill. #bettingat100.1andabove