Gambler Billy Walters on the Sharp's Life

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Michael Lewis sits down with Billy Walters, one of the most famous sports bettors of all time. They talk about Walters' impoverished childhood in Kentucky, and his transformation from an auto dealer to a professional poker player in Las Vegas to a sobered-up millionaire who's been indicted five times.

For further reading: Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk by Billy Walters.

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0:39.2	Why is Miami, Miami?
0:41.3	What does the heartbreaking fate of the Cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children?
0:45.9	Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports?
0:49.6	I'm Malcolm Gladwell.
0:50.7	In my new audiobook, Revenge of the Tipping Point,
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1:00.1	Find Revenge of the Tipping Point wherever you find audiobooks out now. Michael Lewis here, welcome back to Against the Rules.
1:18.7	You might have noticed from the early episodes of this season that I've got a weakness for the old school sports gambler.
1:24.5	The kind who found a hard way to make an easy living, and then somehow made it even
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