Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 47, part-2 of a discussion with long-time horseplayer and player advocate Dean Towers, Sponsored by AmWager:

2- Losing your edge

5- Comeback time

7- How CAWs pulled him back into the game

9- Deciphering the CAWs

17- Turning a spread race into a single

24- Even Alan Woods listens to the tote

26- The rule of 3

35- P4 ticket structure example

42- Playing with a smaller bankroll

44- When 3 > 5

52- When dessert is healthier than the main course

55- Addition by subtraction

1:00- Sizing bets based on bankroll 

1:01- Withdrawing big scores from your bankroll

1:05- How to tell when you are the sucker at the table

1:14- A lesson from Picasso

1:20- Changing and evolving with the game

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 46, part-1 of a discussion with long-time horseplayer and player advocate Dean Towers, Sponsored by AmWager:

2- Horseplayer Origin Story

9- First Trip to the Track

11- Hooked by BC telecast

15- A “Greenwood” education

17- Finding “weird” horses

23- How Mason Malmuth ended his poker career

24- How Mark Cramer taught me to make an odds line

26- How Maury Wolff taught me about takeout and rebates

29- Getting started with thoroughbreds at Mountaineer 

32- Greening up on Betfair

39- How ITP taught me that I wasn’t crazy

40- “Angling” with success

46- Harnessing angles

49- Betting patterns

54- Inverse “value” betting

1:02 – Silver Charm and Devil’s Bag

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 45, part-2 of a Deep Dive into how to bet the Kentucky Derby with Mike Maloney Sponsored by AmWager:

3 – Win bets

9- Place and Show bets

16- Exacta Bets

34- Doubles, Exactas, and tris

39 - $1 min Derby Super Bets

1:00 – Horizontal Bets

1:16 – Pressing a “live” P5 

1:23 – Having a plan 

Highlights/timestamp for Bet With the Best Podcast Episode 44 Part-1 a Deep Dive into how to handicap the Kentucky Derby with Mike Maloney Sponsored by AmWager:

3 – General approach to Derby

8- Finding a key horse or horses

20 – Impact of the Derby Points System

23- Finding the “push button” horse

26 – Getting the Derby Distance

38- Finding signal in all the Derby noise

47- Running styles, post-position, and trips

1:01 – Great Derby rides by Jerry Bailey

1:08 – The dreaded rail post position

1:16 – The Trainer factor

1:32 – Workouts

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