In this Win-Win Podcast Episode, Liv and Igor chat to one of the world's most successful sports bettors: Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris. Revered for his hyper-analytical, data-driven approach to gambling, Bob soon became known as one of the most prolific NBA bettors in the history of the basketball, a reputation that even got him hired by Marc Cuban to run strategy for the Dallas Mavericks!
As well as exploring his various secrets of success (and failures!), we also hear about his most recent undertaking… buying the 3rd division Spanish football team CD Castellon to see if his strategic formula can bring them to the 1st division. Ambitious stuff, and one of the many reasons why Haralabos offers a unique perspective on sports, the often seedy world of gambling, and zero-sum competition itself.
Oh and apologies for Igor's mic! I seemingly forgot to plug it in and thus his sound is bad (so we had to cut a lot of his questions). Sorry Igor. 
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:10 Formative Games
00:04:42 Betting on Basketball
00:08:43 Finding Edges
00:18:52 Building Models & Using Data
00:23:46 Floyd Mayweather as a Beard
00:25:27 Ethics in Gambling?
00:30:03 Addiction to Pressure
00:33:44 Dallas Mavericks
00:47:09 Buying CD Castellon
00:57:20 Passion in Sports
01:04:00 Data Diven Approach to Football
01:11:19 AI & Sports
01:18:23 Advice for Younger Self
Links
♾️ Haralabos’s X (Twitter) https://x.com/haralabob?s=20
 ♾️ Ridge Regression https://www.mygreatlearning.com/blog/what-is-ridge-regression/
♾️ CD Castellon Football Club https://www.cdcastellon.com/
♾️ Meditations by Marcus Aurelius https://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
♾️ The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins. 
Credits
♾️ Hosted by: Liv Boeree & Igor Kurganov
♾️ Produced & Edited by: Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by: Keir Schmidt