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Originally Posted by rickroll
i know a bunch of people who went...
the panels are pretty worthless - basic stuff you'll find anywhere because anyone with real nonpublic edges is quietly betting themselves and not giving a panel on it - whereas if you attended MIT's Sloan conference you could see a panel where someone discovered a previously unknown correlation and then you, not the PhD student who likes baseball figure out how that can applied profitably to the betting markets
to borrow from rodney dangerfield, you don't want to listen to anyone who's willing to speak in this this industry...
I didn't attend the MIT Sloane conference, and I don't even bet sports, but I did meet Rufus Peabody, when he was still a student at Yale, "solving" baseball.
My understanding is that Rufus has done quite well applying his research to betting markets. .... according to folks I know who would know.
"Sharp bettors" often get barred or limited by sportsbooks as a rule. I'm wondering if Circa is stepping up to get their action in Las Vegas. Traditionally, Las Vegas books have shied away from taking on sharp action. Instead such bettors looked offshore to place their action.
A number of years ago, Nevada made a big public show about opening up account wagering processes. At the time, looking at then Bill SB 143, I met with a few large bettors and some gaming regulatory folks, the unresolved problem that stunted that effort was an unwillingness of Nevada books to accept large wagers from perceived sharp bettors.
Don't know if that has changed much, but folks presenting panels at BetBash would know.