Circles Off - Joey Knish Part Two

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hagrinBPR Review Date: 2024-02-23 04:20:36
Rating: 7.75

Notes:
My bias - never really interacted with Knish, but he does seem like a pretty strong player advocate at times and uses his platform at times to fight for player interests which is great and more than I do. Knish has a fantastic sense of humor, self-deprecating which had me laughing multiple times. That said, once you see a man attempt to do whatever Knish calls pushups, you really can't look at a man the same way. I kid I kid. Timestamps might be 1 minute off because of the Spotify inserted ad.

TLDR - 17 min through 43 min is fantastic kiosk betting content. I'm sure those who do a lot of kiosk betting won't find much new, but I'm not someone who does any kiosk betting so I found the entire section very compelling.

10:15 - Knish's audio is pretty rough sounding, but at 11:50 it clears up so just hang in there for 90 seconds.

15:15 - Knish in the mover stage of his betting career while still doing some NCAAF originating. Few years was super prop heavy, now not moving as much on props (pretty interesting).

17:00 - Kiosk betting breakdown - whole section is excellent.
18:15 - little nugget that isn't exactly new info, but for some maybe that even if you don't insert a Player's Card that the book does have ways of finding out (as he learned). Interesting, describes kiosk bettors as either "the squarest of the square or the sharpest of the sharp" and that's a great way to describe it. Appreciate him mentioning the logistics and overhead to kiosk betting which is a "cost" you rarely see talked about or even accounted for in profitability. Kiosk limits are a learned skill ("tactical knowledge" great term he used) vs being explicitly defined in the Kiosk UI. Kiosks have a max deposit amount per session varies by location. Different per book, FanDuel has real-time traders watching the kiosks that will contact the staff at the location to approach you.

27:30 - using the app to move a line one way, hit the Kiosk 2 feet away the other way (fascinating).
34:30 - mistake line SGP - "you better do the ROI analysis that it's such a massive score its fine you lose access to this book nationwide forever). Follows with disagreement over Spanky crushing the CSRs - Knish is 10000% right.
38:15 talks about collecting - goes over a few procedural options, TIL, there are people that mail their tickets in and are sent a check (not something I have ever done).
42:45 - don't cross the line, they have the footage keep it within reason.


44:45 - Mental health convo. This is not a subject for me to comment on I'm barely human (some would argue I'm not). 50:15 - he brings up the pushups(!), pretty good, funny dude. 55:30 - betting NCAAM being a real source of anxiety, NCAAM last few minutes variance definitely takes a toll on your health can definitely relate there.

1:02:00 - Dez Bryant parlay fishy. I didn't see the parlay going to have to look at the legs to see if they were +EV. Seems weird to have this convo and not evaluate the legs, but good research topic.

1:06:30 - A Raheem moving mention. I would say Joey TinFoil is probably on to something there. Followed by a very entertaining Simon Hunter section that had me laughing.

1:09:00 - They go through funny tweets, no real betting content but very funny segment I laughed a bunch.

Pod ends with Knish having no idea how the last segment works at first, funny stuff.