Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 43, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 2 of a two-part discussion with the professional player that goes by the Twitter/X handle of InsideThePylons (ITP).

1 - Bad favorites are your best friend

5 - Multiplying value of a bad favorite

10 - A basket of wagers

19 - Super High-5

22 - Betting smaller pools

25 - Keying a value play

27 - Exactas

31- Saver exacta – yes or no?

39 - Betting to place – just say no

44 - Verticals vs horizontals

47 - Takeout vs “mistakeout”

57 - Race selection

1:07 - Depth of field

1:14 - The biggest mistake

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 42, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a two-part discussion with the professional player that goes by the Twitter/X handle of InsideThePylons (ITP).

2 – Anatomy of a bad ticket

10 – Building Equity

19 – Understanding Usage

21- Separating from the crowd

29- Leveraging a bad favorite 

33- The right way to spread

35- Quality Control

49 – Exploiting biases in sequences

59 – Understanding the crowd

1:08 – Playing carryovers

1:10 – Playing smaller pools

1:17 – Don’t be afraid to pass

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 41, sponsored by AmWager, which is a special release about the National Horseplayers' Championship (NHC) with Paul Shurman.

3- Horseplayer Origin Story

13- Handicapping approach

15 – Playing in contests

19 – Playing in the NHC

26 - Choosing which horses to play in NHC

31 - Playing shorter-priced horses in the NHC

38 - The right time to panic at the NHC

40 – Beginning at the end

42 – Playing the final few contest races

46 – Playing mandatory races at the NHC

56 – Playing 2 entries at the NHC

1:10 – Playing to win

1:21 – Pick and Pray contest format

1:26 – Picking the right contest to enter

1:29 – Live betting contests

1:55 – More advice on contests

1:59 – It pays to be organized

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 40, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 2 of a 2-part discussion with professional computer horseplayer Dennis Montoro

3 – Pool Selection

8 – Market liquidity

10 – Living off CAW crumbs

14 – Market efficiency

15 – Betting to win

17 – Directional approach / Bayesian thinking

20 – Fair odds

30 – Is your edge too good to be true?

47 – Betting exacta-ly

53 – Fading favorites

1:02 - Projecting off odds

1:18 – Lessons from the CAW-free NYRA win pool

1:25 – How sports betting differs from parimutuel betting

1:33 – Contest betting

1:42 – Record keeping and pitfalls of back testing

1:48 – Why share insights with fellow players?

1:53 – Advice to new players

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 39, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a two-part discussion with professional player Dennis Montoro.

3 - What is a computer model?

10- Price discovery/estimation

11- Data with an edge

19 - Seesaw markets

24- Betting horses is like buying a microwave oven

30 - Man vs machine

35- Pools full of data

39 - Race selection – less is more

53 - Benefits of taking a vacation

57- Horizontal challenges

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 38, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 2 of a 2-part Deep Dive  in which we talk in depth about speed and pace figures with Craig Milkowski.

2:30 – Making pace figures

10:00 – Run ups

13:00 – Combining speed and pace figures

15:00 – Sierra Leone or Fierceness?

20:00 – Ground loss

25:00 – GPS measurement

33:00 – Weight

43:00 – Difficult races for making figures

45:00 – Accuracy of speed figures

48:00 – Fastest figure he has ever given

49:00 – Flightline

50:00 – Service and Navarro

55:00- Using figures

58:00 – Track biases

1:05 – Betting

1:09 – Doubles

1:14 – Figure making is getting tougher

1:19 – Hong Kong figures

1:23 – Improving the game

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 37, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part 1 of a 2-part Deep Dive  in which we talk in depth about speed and pace figures with Craig Milkowski.

3 - Horseplayer origin story

16 - Making speed figures

26 - Using projection to make figures

31 - Splitting the variant for a day

35 - Projecting figs for 3yos

39 - Shrinking figures

41- Comparing historical figures

44 - Making turf figures

1:00 – Making synth figures

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 36, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part-2 of a 2-part Deep Dive with BCBC Champ and author of the book "A Bettor Way of Thinking," Matt Miller, about the Breeders' Cup and the BCBC.

3- BCBC Strategy

6- Minimum Bet Strategy

15- “Value” in a contest

22- 3 reliable winners

33- Risk pyramid

34- Playing Doubles 

37- Playing Exactas

45- The last race

59- How Matt won the BCBC

1:09 – Playing smaller contests

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 35 of the Bet With the Best Podcast (Sponsored by AmWager). Part 1 of a conversation with BCBC Champ and author of the book "A Bettor Way of Thinking," Matt Miller, discussing the Breeders' Cup and the BCBC.

4- “Bettor” Way of Thinking

10- Blackjack or Wheel of Fortune

12- Knowing your opponent

19- Addressing your weaknesses

22- Picking your spots

27- Set a target and play with monopoly money

45- 2>1

1:00 - Looking for Sunday Silence vs Easy Goer

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 34, sponsored by AmWager, which is Part-2 of a Deep Dive with computer model player Keith Bush about handicapping and betting on races from Hong Kong:

3 – Fed up with US Racing

7- Pivot to Hong Kong

11- HK Basics

15 - HK class system

30- Betting on HK

40- Watching HK Racing

41 – HK Computer Model

58 – Finding edges

1:08 – Trainer intent in HK

1:15 – racing.hkjc.com

1:18 – Jockey behavior

1:20 – What US can learn from HK

1:25 – Open Source Equus Model