Gambling With an Edge

Sid Wyman — Life is a Gamble

Guest: Sid Wyman — pool player, golf gambler, poker player, and what they used to call a rounder (or cross-roader).

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00:00 Growing the show — please subscribe and review
02:45 Meet Sid Wyman: pool player, golf gambler, rounder
03:54 Fort Smith kid: the bookie umpire and the CB radio
05:24 Bou...

This is a throwback episode that I cut from 2 episodes in 2019.

Vagabond has played in over 100 countries. A former Air Force interrogation analyst who spent five years at Fort Meade working for the NSA. He talks about how that training shapes the way he questions dealers, how he moves cash across borders.

Show Notes
00:00 Introduction — Vagabon...

Mark Billings — author of The Ultimate Edge — joins Bob Dancer and Richard Munchkin to talk about beating blackjack in the 1980s: shuffle tracking, hole-carding, and computers strapped to players' legs. Mark tells the stories behind the plays, from the "slicing and dicing" cut-card move to the shoe computer busted at the Desert Inn — including the gaming agent who went on TV and...

This week we sit down with Gina Fiore to discuss her new book, "Advantage Player: A Memoir of Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings".

Get the book - https://amzn.to/3W7mZyL

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