Billy Walters, the most successful professional sports bettor of all time, shares his betting secrets and discusses his new book Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk.
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It’s Presidential pardon season! For obstructors of justice and launderers of foreign cash, the waning days of the Trump Administration might as well be the Super Bowl. Historically, this end-of-term bonanza has been the domain of a privileged guilty few, with the general public cut out of the action. But times change. Recently, a man named Pat Morrow surveyed the scene and thought, What if I gave you two-to-one odds on Giuliani?
Rudy Giuliani and Paul ManafortIllustration by João Fazenda
Morrow runs the odds-making operation at Bovada, an online sports book. This year, with the N.C.A.A. Tournament cancelled and the Olympics postponed, Bovada has cleaned up on political wagering. It has allowed bets on everything from Biden’s running mate (Kamala Harris led for weeks) to which word Trump would say first at a post-election press conference (“fraud” and “steal” lost to “count,” a heavy underdog). “If you are a patriotic American concerne