On the riser up front: A heavyset, dark-eyed man who goes by Spanky, himself the mastermind of the three-day sports-gambling conference called Bet Bash, is conducting an obsequious half-hour Q&A with a titan of the industry-the man everyone calls the best, the most successful sports gambler of all time.
Men in their 20s, in their 50s, in their 70s, wearing golf shirts and chinos and shorts and hats on backwards, sit and listen. To read the rest of the stories, click here.įIVE-HUNDRED MEN sit in chairs arranged in rows on the geometric-patterned carpet of the casino’s Grand Ballroom. This piece is part of a series of stories about today's sports-betting boom and how to combat a gambling addiction.