
This week GP & SP talk about how they keep an eye on their automated PM trading via alerts and dashboards. Golf tournaments getting shortened is back in the news with the same spot popping up as Pebble Beach 2024. And the NBA softens on prediction markets. 0:30 — Introduction 1:44 — Monitoring prediction-market activity 6:18 — Building a trading dashboard 10:06 — Managing positions and risk 16:38 — Trade tapes, alerts, and market flow 29:15 — Prediction Markets News 55:12 — Listener Quest...
Oct 28
1 hr 48 min

Today we are joined by Liam Kane of Kane Analytics to discuss his grind from a Bet365 trader to a market maker providing liquidity on multiple exchanges. 0:00 - Introduction 1:41 - How Liam Got Started 10:33 - The Life Of A Sports Trader 31:23 - The Process of Scaling Up 39:34 - Succeeding Now And In The Future 1:09:10 Listener Questions Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best...
Oct 21
1 hr 56 min

The lost tapes. A lot of people have asked for the BetBash episode as we did sell out the Sphere and only 20,000 people could see it live. This is the episode & a short intro. Interesting to see how out of date some of the takes could seem seeing as they are only two months old. Just a note - thank you to Spanky for letting us do this live pod. It was the highlight of a great event. We would recommend Bet Bash to most of our audience and hope to see everyone there next year! Welcome to T...
Oct 14
1 hr 9 min

This week GP and SP get deep on questions about morality and if work life balance even is real. Then we discuss injury protection coming to PMs! 0:00 - Introduction 3:30 - Learning To Be Content With Performance 22:05 - The Morality and Ethics of Sports Betting 38:28 - This Week in Projection Market News 54:59 - Web Scraping & Terms of Service 58:04 - Explaining How Strikeout Markets Make Money 1:02:25 - Preventing Chasing Bets Into Addictions Welcome to The Risk Takers Podca...
Oct 7
1 hr 10 min

Join the Predictions Cup: https://predictionscup.com/ Today we are joined by Ric Best, who runs one of the biggest prediction market desks in the world - Susquehanna Predictions. If you have ever wanted to get a peek behind the curtain on how the big boys operate, this is your chance. Please consider joining Susquehanna's Predictions Cup - a prediction market contest for students that carries a $30k top prize! 0:00 Ric's background 15:32 Betting on prediction markets 36:15 Building the ...
Sep 30
2 hr 23 min

In this episode - GP & SP drop some hot takes. GP thinks his are actually hot takes this time. And a big news week that includes the Kalshi wash trading allegations, Polymarket & DraftKings in the news for the wrong reasons and the bizarre ACR withdrawal terms that locked up customer funds. 0:00 Hot takes 35:30 News 1:15:00 Q&A Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This podcast is the best bet...
Sep 23
2 hr 14 min

Pre-Order "Advantage Player": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826945/advantage-player-by-gina-fiore/ This week GP and SP sit down w/ Gina Fiore, one of the most prolific winners in the history of advantage play. Gina has won counting cards, hole carding, edge sorting, playing slots, poker, sports, casino bonus play and other moves across a successful AP career. A career so interesting that HBO is making a show out of her memoir "Advantage Player" that is being released next month. Pl...
Sep 16
2 hr 2 min

SP and GP go through all of the software they are currently using in the prediction market trading and why they think it's useful. News is spicy with the incorrect settlement of the Mich/WMU that lead to absolute chaos on Kalshi and the long downtime of Poly US on the first college football saturday. 0:00 Tech Stack 30:30 College Football PM Chaos 1:12:28 Underdog Announcement 1:23:15 Listener Q&A Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (Gol...
Sep 9
2 hr 5 min

GP & SP sit down with Richard Lee - a PM trader that came a different route than most of our guests. Richard built his trading firm before PMs as a market maker of meme coins back in the 2017 crypto boom. After that he tried to build his own prediction market, before deciding the better decision was to just trade on the existing ones. 0:00 Intro to Advantage Play 11:00 Crypto Market Making 33:45 Transition to Prediction Markets 1:13:00 Listener Q&A Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast,...
Sep 2
1 hr 37 min

GP and SP start the episode off by listing 6 things they are focusing on for NFL this year on prediction markets. Then they get to the news - which includes Kalshi putting RFQ maker fees on and ETR & Rufus taking some public projections/ models private for use on prediction markets. 0:00 Keys to NFL on PMs 22:30 News 47:00 ETR & Rufus go Private 1:08:45 Welcome to The Risk Takers Podcast, hosted by professional sports bettor John Shilling (GoldenPants13) and SportsProjections. This p...
Aug 26
2 hr 1 min
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