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A bola subiu e o Grego pegou! Está no ar o sexagésimo sexto episódio do Medo De Cervo, sua dose semanal de Milwaukee Bucks aqui na FN Network Estamos de volta com a primeira edição de 2023! Nesse episódio comentamos o começo de ano instável do Bucks. O time segue sofrendo com desfalques e segue vivendo altos e baixos. Khris Middleton já chega a 17 jogos perdidos e o retorno dele às quadras é um drama digno de novela. Em compensação, após um mês da estreia, Joe Ingles, que chegou lesionado e perdeu 32 jogos na temporada, dá sinais daquilo que o Bucks buscou nele, playmaking, chutes de 3 e uma nova liderança técnica em quadra. O pivô, Serge Ibaka, afastado do time desde o início do ano, chegou a um acordo com Milwaukee para que ele seja trocado. Analisamos a saída de Ibaka, os impactos que ela pode gerar no elenco e novos cenários de troca para o Bucks. Avaliamos também os assets disponíveis e ranqueamos os jogadores quanto a sua disponibilidade e valor para trocas há 3 semanas da trade deadline. Discutimos ainda a boa fase de Jrue Holiday e a possibilidade de vermos tanto o armador, quanto o pivô Brook Lopez, juntos de Giannis Antetokounmpo entre os selecionados para o All-Star game dessa temporada. Trazemos também notícias sobre o Milwaukee Bucks e a votação do prêmio 'Cervão de Ouro'. A FNN tem um novo parceiro! A Sports America chega junto com a gente e quem ganha é você! Os melhores produtos dos times das ligas americanas, originais e certificados com toda segurança. Todos os produtos da loja com 10% de desconto usando o cupom "FNN10" É só acessar pelo Link: https://bit.ly/FNN10-SA Pedro Bethânia comanda o programa no estilo rádio ao vivo, sem cortes e sem edição, com comentários de Anderson Paiva, jornalista e amante da NBA! Trilha sonora: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoO7E3yZrItiLpPK1fL1C4fd-gIWucyRo Edição: Pedro Bethânia Assine o Feed e não perca nenhum episódio! https://fumblenanet.com.br/feed/medodecervo/ Venha falar conosco acessando nosso grupo no Telegram! Acompanhe as pílulas de notícias seguindo no Instagram: @fumblenanet

The SBC Digital Summit is almost here and the Director of Marketing North America, Kevin Smith, joins the show to talk about it. We discuss the decision to push back Betting on Sports America to December. We also get to hear about the details surround SBC Digital Summit in April.

Sue Schneider, the VP of Growth & Strategy at SBC joins the show to talk about her long list of experiences in the iGaming industry. Sue also gives us her predictions on where the US market is headed along with a quick little preview of the Betting on Sports America 2020 event in New Jersey.

Arnie Spanier and Aaron Torres reign in the New Years for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon as the guys make their sports predictions for 2020 and beyond. The biggest news of the day is the Cleveland Browns parting ways with GM John Dorsey but Aaron says the talent in Cleveland should still attract strong candidates. Meanwhile, another day goes by and the Cowboys till have Jason Garrett as their head coach because no one wants to work under Jerry Jones! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Betting on Sports America 2019 is officially in the books and it turned out to be a first class event for sports betting fans in the United States. Today, Ryan Knuppel talks with the founder and CEO of SBC Gaming, Rasmus Sojmark, about the event from his perspective. This recording was just a few days after the event and the first podcast interview Rasmus did following #bosamerica -- this is one you won't want to miss. Show Notes Ryan Knuppel: 00:00 On this episode I get to sit down with CEO and founder of SBC Gaming, Rasmus Sojmark and we talk all about the betting on sports America 2019 conference. Don't miss it. Intro: 00:12 This is crazy.. Ryan Knuppel: 00:13 Everywhere you turn it's the same old sports, talk the same headlines, the same news and the same boring information. This podcast is here to change all of that. We bring you hot sports takes, winning sports betting strategy and picks, reliable gaming industry news and breaking interviews with some of the biggest names in sports business. My name is Ryan Knuppel welcome to the Knup Sports Show. Ryan Knuppel: 00:34 Hey what's up everybody, welcome to episode number 49 of the Knup Sports Show. My name is Ryan Knuppel, I'm your host here of this show thank you for joining me, I really appreciate it tuning in to this show. We have a very special show in store today. I just got back from probably my favorite conference of all time. The best conference I've ever been to, and it was the betting on sports America 2019 conference, that took place the Meadowlands, New Jersey. Ryan Knuppel: 00:59 I spent a week out there, brought my wife and we went to the event. Spent three or four days at the event and another three, four days in New York, Manhattan on a little vacation. Today the CEO and founder of SBC Gaming, the guy responsible for putting on this entire event, Rasmus Sojmark. He's with me, he joined me, he was kind enough to sit down with me and talk all about the event. I was going to talk about it myself. I was going to go through and just talk about my experience with the event. But I figured who better than to have on than the man himself, the man responsible for putting this on. Ryan Knuppel: 01:35 So many people enjoyed it. I talked to hundreds and hundreds of people at this event. I think there was almost a couple thousand at the event. But I talked to many people and they all had the same feedback, the same responses from these events. Just talking about how first class it was, and how well put on it was and they did everything at a very high level. I'm excited for you to listen to this, I'm excited for you to hear what Rasmus has to say. He's a great guy. SBC is a great team of people I got to meet and hang out with a lot of them there at this event this weekend. Ryan Knuppel: 02:07 Over the next month or two you are going to hear from me a lot about this event. A lot of things that I learned, a lot of people that I talked to. I'm going to connect with them on this show and we are going to talk about different things that they're into in this industry. Because the sports betting industry is really popping, really growing in the United States and I want to use this show as a platform to bring people on and really just tell their story, tell their side of what's going on in the sports betting industry, and who better to start with than Rasmus. Ryan Knuppel: 02:35 I'm excited, without further a due lets jump right into today's interview. All right. Today we have a special guest on this show. Today I'm joined by Rasmus Sojmark. Rasmus is the CEO and founder of SBC Gaming. Rasmus, you're with me today? Rasmus Sojmark: 02:49 I am Ryan. Thanks for having me man. Ryan Knuppel: 02:51 Absolutely. I'm so honored and privileged that you're joining me on the show here. We just all got back from your awesome new events, betting on sports America 2019, it was held at the Meadowlands expo and conference center in New Jersey. Man what an even that was. I did attend and had a good time, it was a pleasure meeting you. Man, how're you feeling after that big event? Rasmus Sojmark: 03:15 I think you just said it there man. No more for me to say well said, just recovered now. There was a lot of organizing the sport events, then you execute during the three, four days and just hope that everyone is enjoying the events. And I think we had some incredible feedback. The response was great. I think this is one of the best event we've done in a long time and that's very important when you have it as the first one in a new big market, that's the US. Rasmus Sojmark: 03:51 I think it went really well, and I mean there're several factors when you look into an event. First of all, you want to have a conference working well. People are there to learn something and be educated and hear what our latest news in the industry are. In the conference and the panels were pretty much outstanding. I think a lot of key information was discussed and also shared with the audience, and I think that's key. And I think we did that very well at least that's what I keep hearing from everyone that's been attending. Rasmus Sojmark: 04:25 They all were very positive about this part, so I think that was a hit and I think as well, I think everything on speaker did an incredible job and that can be a bit tough when you have almost 200 speakers on the program. It's hard to manage, you need to coordinate between all of them and that takes a lot of efforts. I think their participation, their engagement in the lead up to the event and also [inaudible 00:04:53] event was great. Rasmus Sojmark: 04:55 Just a quick personal thank you to all the speakers. I think you guys helped make this event a superb one. Thank you. Ryan just ask me a question if you want to talk. Ryan Knuppel: 05:09 Sure. Sure. I mean, I want to chime in on the speakers. Every speaker that I went to, every session, every track that I went into was absolutely amazing. The only complaint I would have is I didn't get to go to enough of them. I mean they were so many of them, which is a good complaint by the way. It's a good problem to have. Rasmus Sojmark: 05:26 Don't worry man. Listen, the good thing is we video all of it. Right? So what we need to do is of course, is we need to have load for all of the material, and then what we all do is release every single panel with video for [inaudible 00:05:38] for everyone that attended the event. Ryan Knuppel: 05:40 Perfect. Rasmus Sojmark: 05:40 So you can go back and you can have a look at the ones you missed on that day. But I agree, three conference rooms running at the same time can be difficult. Ryan Knuppel: 05:48 Too many choices I was so conflicted at times. I'm like, I want to go here and here and here. But it was awesome, it was a great time guys did a good job. Rasmus Sojmark: 05:59 At least it was fairly connective when in the venue as well. I mean, it wasn't too complicated to move to so many conference rooms. Because that is an issue when you say it like that. You want to go from one room to another, between sessions and you only have no more than five minutes, you need to be quick. Ryan Knuppel: 06:18 Sure. Sure. Let's talk about the venue for a second. I thought the venue was outstanding. I had actually never been to the Meadowlands area there in New Jersey. What drew you to that spot? And was that always your plan to be at the Meadowlands or what drew you to that venue? Rasmus Sojmark: 06:33 We did a lot of research initially. We were thinking about doing in New York in Manhattan, and they have the Javits one which we were looking at that. But it's quite big, and we thought okay maybe wait and just find one that is big but not as big and we had to look around. There's not a lot of venues in New York to be honest. We also took a look at New Jersey thinking that it could be smart to find a way to combine the two of them. I mean, New Jersey is where it's all happening at them moment, but of course people coming all for this also love to see a bit of Manhattan. Rasmus Sojmark: 07:05 So how can you say combine those two. We went to the area we're talking about here and they have quite a few good options. There was the Meadowlands race track, the was MetLife stadium the home of Giants and Jets. And we weren't having a look at the stadium as well. But could be a bit complicated which calls spending some times with what venues you can use. So we ended up saying Meadowlands seems to be a good choice. But a lot of hotels nearby make it very, very convenient for people staying. [inaudible 00:07:34] exit the hotel when you're there. Rasmus Sojmark: 07:37 It also gives us quite a bit of space like 51,000 square feet. Which means that we can create conference rooms and we create enough space for people to sit down and network talk and of course for the exhibitors and the sponsors to display their products in a nice setting as well. So it ended up being that choice but at the same within that choice is set, it's very important to mention that we could combine those two, Manhattan and New Jersey. Rasmus Sojmark: 08:00 When you are in Meadowlands area, you literally only have around 50 minutes drive to Manhattan you are straight up at Times Square. There can be a lot of traffic so you need to factor that in. And I think that was on of the things we were worried about that there could be enough traffic so when we were moving people from after the conference and exhibition, to the evening event in Manhattan there would be a bit of a drive. But I think all of that actually worked really well. I'm personally surprised and I think Meadowlands proved to be an excellent venue for us. Ryan Knuppel: 08:34 Yeah. I think it did. It seemed like the perfect balance between the Manhattan experience and then a little disconnect from that over in New Jersey and yeah. Let's shift over and talk about these ... you mentioned the after parties, the evening events. Man, myself I've never personally been to an SBC event so this was my first one. And let me say right out the front, you guys do it right. I mean your events, your party, your venues, the food, the drinks, just the whole vibe of the parties was absolutely amazing. Ryan Knuppel: 09:10 Is it always like that or was this one different because it was a little more buzz around the United States and some of those places you picked were just amazing. I mean, talk to me a little bit about the parties, and what you thought the vibe of those was. Rasmus Sojmark: 09:23 I think to be honest, it's a recurrence event. We tend to look at what creates a holistic, like a complete delegate experience. I mean, ultimate big events and we want it to be a big event, I mean, not too big just an amount of people so attending and of course we look to grow that next year. I think it's important to just see what can you do to shine people together. Not everyone wants to go to the evening events, and they create their own dinners and their own small gatherings for the clients and customers and soon to be customers et cetera. Rasmus Sojmark: 10:00 So I think when we look at the evening we sort of try to think okay, what can we put together here that people want to attend. We keep people together, not just during the day time but also the evening. Because you're right when you were saying for this one, I mean it wasn't different from one of our events, but I think this one was just so important to keep people together. Rasmus Sojmark: 10:20 You have a whole new market opening up, so much opportunity so why not go that extra mile to make sure that we busy, very busy during the day. And we know that from experience, because we put on three conference rooms, 200 speakers, we have a Ryan running around want to attend all the sections. And if you're doing that, you can't network, you can't talk to people, you can't do business, you can't go and meet the services and see the products and stuff. Really that can be much of an issue because of course I need to create some action for everyone there. Because also response from exhibitors is a big part of supporting the event. Rasmus Sojmark: 10:58 What we then try and do is to make sure that the ones you didn't meet during the daytime, you'll certainly have a chance to meet during the evening when we have free evening events going on during this event. And I think that is just the key here. That by going in and creating that environment for you to know that, oh yeah, I'll sit in the conference, I'll suck up all this information in all these sessions and take that back, but also know that I will have time because SBC organized this thing in the evening where there will be full house. Rasmus Sojmark: 11:31 And we had 750 people, that's a 40, 40 cap. And that was a pre registration. Hey, that was before the main conference and exhibitions part. That was unheard of. I was like Ryan to be honest, I was thinking, okay man there's maybe have 300, 400 people there. Ryan Knuppel: 11:47 Yeah. Rasmus Sojmark: 11:48 The company will do well. Because truth to be told, the venues we picked weren't the cheapest ones. We want to create some nice really surroundings when you're there like people want to come to a great event. So the 40, 40 cap on a Tuesday, that's NBA players, you had NHL and this is a sports event people of sports, they want to watch the sports. How do you combine it so Ryan doesn't run off to go to another sports bar to watch this. But everyone else is at another bar, networking the event so we combine the two taking the best Jay-Z sports bar. I think everyone just wanted to come and see the and then realized shit sorry my language ... there's all the networking here this is a great setting. Rasmus Sojmark: 12:29 And from there on we took the other direction on Wednesday. We actually brought everyone to the Meadowlands race track and they have a very nice roof top bar, a bit well independent but we also booked the downstairs one in case it was bad weather we could have taken everyone one down to the lounge. And also people got to see the first and real retail sports in New Jersey. Ryan Knuppel: 12:52 Right. Rasmus Sojmark: 12:52 The history ride you saw the [inaudible 00:12:54], amazing looking sports book in the Meadowlands the racing entertainment setting there at the race track. I think that was another element added into the whole experience here. And the weather was great so people just loved that like being on the roof top back drop was Manhattan, you had the MetLife stadium there you could see, you see the race track, there was drinks, there was barbecue and people continued doing their business that they didn't finish doing that very day in the daytime. Rasmus Sojmark: 13:25 On the first day of course, to add another element into making it really a key evening for people, we had the hall of fame next to [inaudible 00:13:32] network the Sky room In Manhattan. Now I'll say to you Ryan I mean, I went to New York a couple of times, seven hours, pouring down with rain, walking around and that was the day we chose to view the roof top bars in all of New York, just to find the best venue [inaudible 00:13:50]. And that was difficult when it's raining. The good thing there was Sky room had this thing that you close off the roof of it, so in case it was raining you still have that feel of the roof top fun and it was raining that day. Ryan Knuppel: 14:00 Right. Rasmus Sojmark: 14:01 Really had it open so that was a good choice. And at the same time you had like Dennis Drazin, Art Manteris, and Chris Christie coming for the hall of fame. Personally this is why I love these men, I had the good opportunity here to be the one that presented the hall of fame award for former Governor Chris Christie. Rasmus Sojmark: 14:22 That was a proud moment, I mean he's an interesting man for the sports industry. Being up there getting that choice. That's a lot that comes with sometimes organizing an event. Normally, I would have someone else doing it like one of our sponsors or something like that, but on this case it was also a new event it was nice first to see or to show ourselves. People maybe understood it a little bit, who's behind this event. When you come back and realize it was a successful event so yeah. All things I think it was great for the combination there with daytime and strong evening events. Ryan Knuppel: 15:01 I agree and there's nothing much else I can say there. You said it all, I was going to repeat much of what you said about the venues. Absolutely gorgeous venues with some great views. Great people, great food, I mean all around just a great experience. Just once again thank you for putting that on and thank you for I mean, SBC definitely didn't skimp out on those events. They treated people well. And that was the other thing your stuff and everybody around the event was very accommodating to everyone and just super engaging with people which is always good to hear. Ryan Knuppel: 15:34 Overall great event. Anything else about this event you wanted to talk about here or are you won out already? Rasmus Sojmark: 15:42 No I can continue. What I think you just mentioned. One thing of course is very important is you have a good team. I think we actually had 25 staff and colleagues over there so we wanted to make sure we had a very strong understanding of the events we do and we could execute on them. Obviously we had good support from local staff as well that we brought in. And I think they did a very good job so of course a big thank you to my team as well. It's almost impossible organizing all these elements takes a lot of effort. Rasmus Sojmark: 16:16 And I think maybe lucky if you had [inaudible 00:16:18], it wasn't that easy but we did a lot of pre planning, we did a lot of execution of tasks between team members and they were in charge of this and that. And I think all in all it went well. Because me Ryan as well coming to New Jersey and Manhattan to present an event, it's just not me working and making sure the event works. I also need to talk to you, build my network and make sure people get to know us better, because we need to put a face to the name for a lot of people. Rasmus Sojmark: 16:47 There was a lot of people that couldn't execute on their work so it was very good work for the staff here where others they were running around trying to network and talk and make sure people knew who the actual SBC people were for future events. I would say as well next to that there were some really good highlights on the conference side. I mean we had the New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy [inaudible 00:17:08] that was packed. You had the national media there, you probably had 400 people in there. I think there were sitting about 300 if you were standing in the back. He was very direct and saying New Jersey was to overtake Nevada and you have to come. That was quite interesting and all that means there will be more interesting events in New Jersey. Rasmus Sojmark: 17:31 Added to this, I think we had hall of fame Morten Andersen NFL hall of fame and the most kept player in the NFL. Giving a very cool and funny key note on the second there. But first I think there was some good [inaudible 00:17:44] there on stage. Walking around that floor I actually set him on [inaudible 00:17:49] key note. You have guy like [inaudible 00:17:52]. I mean patriot. So me being a patriot's fun I meet a three time super bowl winner there shaking my hand and taking pictures. Rasmus Sojmark: 18:02 That's cool and he was great so Brian Westbrook, the former Eagles running back. Ryan Howard there from the Phillies. They were doing a talk on the states as well which had received very good feedback. Then you also heard from the sportsmen inside [inaudible 00:18:17] with Christian Steward and John Katovich that could pen well on the CEO panel which I went into and it was packed. Rasmus Sojmark: 18:25 Loved the discussions between those guys and see what they had to say. There were some interesting questions from the audience as well. I think New Jersey is the land of opportunity of course because that was the follow up from what Phil Marcus said. You have David Rebuck the former senator Lesniak, and even pressing up the hardrock discussing New Jersey as an all. I think that was a really good panel. You had sponsorship panel with MGM Nelson's board and then Shell and Texas Rangers, very good panel as well. Rasmus Sojmark: 18:51 And then I think to finish it off, the very last panel to the event. Normally you and I would be out drinking a beer, but then you went into the room and it was packed. Probably because you had good people there addressing the media landscape and how that would deal with the sports betting in the US. And you had John from thescore, Patrick from the action network [inaudible 00:19:11], David Preslek from NBC. And I think those are all good names so I think that helps when you attract people in because they want to settle in. Rasmus Sojmark: 19:18 But also it's very interesting of course because the media in the US seems to be very embracing towards the sports betting. And know that there's massive opportunity here but how does this work? I think all of this just came together somehow actually with events. I think those are actually the key highlights next to of course all of the experiences you and I had at the evening events and the rest. Yeah. Ryan Knuppel: 19:39 Yeah. It really did. Man, I could talk about this all day long. I mean, there's so much that happened at this event that we can touch base on. But I know for the sake of time I want to let you go and I want to keep moving on here. What's next for SBC both in the United State and outside of the United States? What are the other events do you guys have planned and what can we look forward to because I know a lot of people listen to this, a lot of people in the industry listen to this podcast and I've been advocating some of your events. What can I be looking forward to over the next few months or year or years? Rasmus Sojmark: 20:12 Yeah I mean. I think we're looking at betting sports America at 2020 would be, all this would be on the 28th to 30 of April. For now, I think we set on the Meadowlands exposition center again. Mark your dates your calendars for the [inaudible 00:20:32] next year. And I think we we're trying to do with this is of course take back all the feedback we receive and try and work out how can we improve on this. How do we do like a year after follow-up to discuss the key thing that was addressed and how it's been compressed and hopefully [inaudible 00:20:48]. Rasmus Sojmark: 20:48 What we also want to do is try and work harder. I think we had a good representation from the sports industry [inaudible 00:20:54]. But we want to bring more of them in. There was also the NFL draft fell on the same dates I think that might be the case next year. We definitely take this back and then we'll deliver really stronger next year. And we want to grow it a bit not too big but of course you want to do more and get some more people into the commercial side. Rasmus Sojmark: 21:16 I think the commercial side will be more and more important as the industry grows. Because you need to look at the right product, the right opportunities, the right third party products. You need to create the ultimate and user experience. Also the side of integrity compliance and all these things, you need to make sure that the US industry is becoming a very solid and well executed part of the interest into the sports betting side. Rasmus Sojmark: 21:47 Because there's a lot of mistakes and issues that we learn from setting open markets so try and address these, get the right products, right people, speak to the right stake holders and make sure that is all there next year. Which I think it was this year, but certainly work hard to make it even better next year. That's the US events and of course for everyone that feels they are still hungry for sports betting information, I would like to say that our biggest event the one we've been running for several years, is taking place in London on the 17th to 20th of September actually at [inaudible 00:22:20] London which is one of the big conference centers. Rasmus Sojmark: 22:24 Normally there, we have around three and a half thousand senior expected attendance and we presenting no less Ryan this time the 300 speakers. It's also good exhibition part with relevant sports betting products we're talking about 140ish exhibitors. Absolutely there's so much information there and added to the evening events. For the ones that love a great networking event in the evening and also at the same time as we get in [inaudible 00:22:53] sports American here. Rasmus Sojmark: 22:55 You can get a bit of the local feel and experience the view of UK because we've booked the natural history museum which is an outstanding venue. We've booked that for one of the evenings. There'll be another European hall of fame. Those evening events will give you the same feel of the same opportunities to network and do business in the evening. Yeah. Anyone that feels from say the US side that can make the trips, you absolutely make the trip and we already have someone to speak from the US side of course represented. Rasmus Sojmark: 23:26 We talking about drafting, [inaudible 00:23:28] to promote to attend some of the panels which we usually do. I think certainly I will recommend this for the US audience because there is a lot of learning to do as well. There's a lot of different things discussed that might be a bit still ahead of what the US market is. But those are important learnings to take back. This event is very relevant and I will highly recommend anyone interested can always touch base with me. Ryan Knuppel: 23:51 Sounds like a good excuse to hit the London. Rasmus Sojmark: 23:53 Yeah. Absolutely man. Definitely you're welcome my friend. Absolutely. Ryan Knuppel: 23:57 Sounds great. Well, I appreciate you joining me Rasmus. I absolutely do I know you're a busy man and you're won out, we both are. My voice is actually a little scratchy still. Man I was just all that talking and loud events. I mean it was a great event. I appreciate you joining me. Any last words for the audience before we go here? Rasmus Sojmark: 24:16 Well, I think it's been a great week. Last week of course in New Jersey and New York and I think I'm very pleased to see that we got so great feedback. Even one of my good friends the president of online gaming called Churchill Downs, who's also a good US company, said it was the best event he ever attended. I think we keep getting this kind of feedback, so I'll leave you to just talk in a bit more. And then from this event and we will talk next year and I think yourself and people I met last week have been incredibly supportive. So Ryan thanks to you and all my friends and happy to invite you all here as my guest if you can make it in September and thank you for giving me the opportunity [crosstalk 00:25:03]. Ryan Knuppel: 25:07 Absolutely. All right. Nothing much else I can say besides great event. I invite everyone whose listening to this, make sure you put in on your calendar. You said April 28th to 30th of next year 2020. I'll be there again. That's the US one and then September 17th through 20th in London. Rasmus Sojmark: 25:24 Definitely man. Ryan Knuppel: 25:25 Awesome. All right Rasmus well you get some rest, you get back on your feet now that you're back home and I certainly appreciate you joining me on this show. And if there's anything I can ever do for you, you don't hesitate to reach out to me. Rasmus Sojmark: 25:38 Like wise my friend. And appreciate the time and the opportunity here yeah. Ryan Knuppel: 25:42 All right. You take care and have a great day. Rasmus Sojmark: 25:43 Take care. Speaker 2: 25:44 Thanks for listening to this episode of the Knup Sports Show. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider subscribing to our iTunes channel today. Plus visit us at Knupsports.com for more picks, previews, strategy and news. That's KNUPSports.com.  

Three-year-olds are tricky. And we’re not just talking toddlers.  Colts in the Kentucky Derby can be bedeviling also, especially when they were the morning line favorites to win installment 145 and especially when they represented the storyline of the first Saturday in May … and then were scratched.   But here’s hoping that Omaha Beach recovers quickly and completely, runs a few more races safely and then settles in for a fruitful career of making more Omaha Beachs.  Yes, the original Derby favorite was ruled out on Wednesday when a case of entrapped epiglottis was discovered. And yes, this installment of Badder Beats was recorded the day before. So consider this a time capsule of what could have been, but what will never be.  And blame it on the kids.  The quality within:  interviews with New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement director David Rebuck, Racehour podcast host Dean Ryan on the Derby, and Omaha Beach owner Rick Porter on patriotic horse names and what they mean to him.  TIME STAMPS 15:25 – New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement director David Rebuck on whether he knows the impact of his efforts against the offshore market.  24:02 – Co-host Ryan likes horse names.  25:00 – Ryan says post position is going to be really important.  25:43 – Part three of the Butler thoroughbred betting triad: trainer/jockey. Is that a square now?  26:02 – Whatifthehorsenameissmooshedtogether?  29:15 – On five-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert.  30:51 – Co-host Brant James offers his Derby analysis.  31:15 – On Omaha Beach, pre-entrapped epiglottis. (It was such a good story).  32:07 – Does Roadster get jealous?  32:03 – Most interesting owner; Gary Barber (War of Will)  33:36 - Brant, in a moment of prescience: “You never know.”  34:10 – There is no dome over Churchill Downs.  34:40 – Dean Ryan of the Racehour podcast presented by Gambling.com.  35:02 – How popular is American thoroughbred horse racing Europe?  36:12 – Is turf racing king in Europe?  36:50 – Bye-bye, Bye Bye Hong Kong.  38:00 – Who is going to win the Kentucky Derby?  42:16 – Omaha Derby owner Rick Porter.  44:45 – On World War II names for Fox Hill Farm race horses.  48:15 – In another moment of prescience, Ryan wants Omaha Beach to be sad.  49:02 - OddBet  50:01 – Brant picks Master Fencer to finish last.  50:38 – Ryan picks the Baffert colts in order.  52:00 – A quick walking tour of the trade show floor at the Betting on Sports America conference.   LINKS YOU NEED Kentucky Derby value bets. Omaha Beach scratched. Tennessee joins sports betting roster.

USBets.com Managing Editor Eric Raskin and Senior Analyst John Brennan discuss the Betting on Sports America conference, several states' simultaneous progress toward legalizing sports betting, and Jeopardy's James Holzhauer's earnings potential, plus they talk to Dan Back of RotoGrinders about the relationship between DFS and sports betting, NFL Draft bets, and more. Find us on Twitter @US_Bets or go to USBets.com for more.

As Ryan Butler and Brant James head to the Betting on Sports America 2019 in Secaucus, N.J., a bill to legalize sports betting in Montana heads to the governor’s desk.  Which will arrive first?   TIME STAMPS  4:16 – Hello, Montana. The cog of Big Sky Country becomes the first state to legalize sports betting in 2019. Probably.  6:33 – On not fighting over the Wright Brothers.  7:20 – Ryan and Brant hash out their plans for the Betting on Sports America conference in Secaucus, N.J., on Wednesday and Thursday.  10:10 – Victor Bigio, sportsbook director at Sportech, on the exotic things – heartrates!? - sports bettors might one day wager upon.  12:10 – What’s a micro bet and will you place them?  12:59 – Victor Bigio on athlete privacy and leagues attempting to monetize every part of their games.  14:12 – The National Football League draft is upon us, and so is the chance to bet on it.  16:00 - Is/should Kyler Murray the number one pick?  17:00 – Much love for Alabama defensive lineman Quinnen Williams, who is a pretty good bet for the second pick.  19:25 – So if he’s not No. 1, where does Kyler Murray go?  21:37 – Iowa tight ends and betting on which one is drafted first.  25:50 – Jon Kaplowitz of Penn National joins the show for Pennsylvania and national insights.  45:50 – In #OddBet breaking news, The Cure is co-headlining the Glastonbury Festival.  50:22 – Brant thinks there will be lots of wide receivers drafted in the first round.  51:01 – Will Tony Stark kill Thanos is Avengers: End Game?      Where You Can Find Episode 24 Of Badder Beats On Social Media On Instagram. On Twitter. Brant James on Twitter. Ryan Butler on Twitter. Betting on Sports America on Twitter.

  In a 600-yard tee shot of a show, Tiger Woods sets the golf and sports betting universes ablaze - the Venn diagram of their overlap may never recover - in winning his 15th Major and fifth Masters. Ryan Butler and Brant James discuss how this transcendent figure and tickler of betting markets is already the favorite to win the remaining majors of the year after his upset win and Cinderella story from Augusta. BREAKING: Don't cry for the house. Craig Cummings makes his debut to recount how megawatt Twitter personality Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports unwittingly opened a channel of discussion about illegal offshore sportsbooks. And all because Minnesota hasn't legalized! Brant offers up the next sentimental story (that happens to be very successful) that will hammer the sportsbooks. Here's to ya, Omaha Beach. And in #OddBet, there's some Avengers, some hurling, some more Tiger Woods prognostication, and then Ryan goes back in the lake. TIME STAMPS:  1:34 - The hosts still bask in an incredible Sunday in Augusta, a comeback for the ages and one of the most consequential moments in this new era of American sports betting. And you’ll never guess which host watched the back nine from a Chilies.  7:55 - Wisconsin day trader James Adducci had an even better day than Tiger, winning nearly $1.2 million on a bet in a Las Vegas sportsbook and reviving the Horatio Alger myth of modern sports gambling. But our hosts aren’t so sure if this story is all that it seems. Either way, a bad day for the sportsbooks is only going to mean more money for them in the long (and short) term.  13:12 - Badder Beats announces its first road trip as the show heads to New York and New Jersey for the annual Betting on Sports America conference with the biggest names in the business.  15:15 - Ahead of the conference, Brant spoke with Betting on Sports America attendee (and Monmouth Park CEO) Dennis Drazin, who helps explain his part in the long and winding road to legal sports betting in New Jersey.  21:20 - Ryan breaks down sports betting bills gaining momentum in three states. Spoiler alert: good news if you live in Indiana, Tennessee and/or North Carolina  25:15 - Craig Cummings joins Badder Beats to explain how a mean tweet toward the founder of Barstool Sports has shined a (much needed) spotlight on an illegal offshore bookmaker – and the industry as a whole  37:52 - We talk NBA and NHL playoff betting  37:59 - We explain where you can actually follow along key betting developments in the NBA and NHL playoffs  39:45 - A very special #OddBet featuring Craig, the NBA Draft Lottery and Irish Hurling (the sport, not a rough night at the pub)  50:35 - Brant thanks our listeners, then torments Ryan in the process.    LINKS YOU NEED: Tiger Woods favored to win every Major. Tiger Woods cost books money, but will pay them back big-ly.    

In this episode of the Knup Sports Show -- Ryan does a short "preview" of the 2019 Betting on Sports America conference that takes place April 23-25 in New Jersey at the Meadowlands. Show Notes   Ryan Knuppel: 00:00 Hey what's up guys? It's Ryan Knuppel here, host of the Knup Sports Show. I'm back. Today, it's a pretty cool episode. Today I don't have anybody on. I'm not talking to anybody. I am simply going to preview the Betting on Sports America Conference. I'm heading to this conference next week. Today as I'm recording it is Wednesday. I am heading next week on Monday flying out to New York New Jersey heading to this conference, and I couldn't be more excited for it. First of all, thanks for tuning in. I appreciate each and every one of you listening to this. It means a lot to me to grow listeners to this podcast. I mean podcasting is something it comes natural to me. I love talking, I love talking sports. I love talking to people with people. It's kind of a natural progression of what I do offering content to people. My business kind of creates podcast content, video for others. This kind of serves as my home court, my home field, my home turf of podcasting. Thanks for tuning in, I appreciate it. Ryan Knuppel: 00:59 Again, today all I'm going to do is just talk. I'm talking about the Betting on Sports America conference. I'm super excited for this thing. I mean I've been in this industry now for gosh 15 years in some way or another. It's kind of funny because over the last 10 15 years, I've kind of been pretty quiet about it. I don't know if that's because it's always sports betting has always kind of been frowned upon or illegal in the United States. When people ask me what I do, I've kind of been a little shyer about it. "I write about sports. I'm in the sports industry" and usually leave out the sports betting detail. That's always kind of felt weird to me, like I'm trying to hide something, or like it's not a real business which obviously I'm making mid six figures with my business and having a great, great growth pattern, great success that it obviously is a business. Just talking about it being in the sports betting area has been just harder for me I guess. Ryan Knuppel: 01:56 Now, it's really ironic and really fun to see where the industry is moving here in the United States. Now, all of a sudden it's mainstream. Everybody's talking about sports betting and how it's legalizing in different states, and how "Now we're going to be able to bet from anywhere." I'm sitting here in my mind like, "Yeah this is my life. This is what I've lived for the past 15 years." All these conversations that are starting to happen now, these new sites popping up, these new people joining in the conversation is really exciting to me. It's really kind of given me new life and new purpose in this industry. This conference I mean it's set up to be the biggest in the United States so far, like 175 speakers all lined up, 60 exhibitors, I think over 1500 attendees are going to be there. There's going to be like 100 plus sports betting operators, sports clubs, all sorts of people are going to be there. Ryan Knuppel: 02:52 The coolest part is there's going to be people that I haven't met in person but I've worked with online for years over a decade in some cases. I already have several people that I'm lined up to meet, super excited to meet them in person when I'm going. That's really why I'm going. I'm super excited to go. My wife and I are going to go. She's not going to attend all the conferences, but she is going to the networking events. I had to buy a little special ticket for her. She can go to the conference, but she's probably just going to go to the networking events, since they are in pretty cool spots. I'll tell you a little bit more about those in a second. Let's preview this event a little bit. Let's talk about it before I go and then again I'll join on and I'll kind of give you a recap of how it went. First of all, where is it at? Ryan Knuppel: 03:37 It's at the Meadowlands Expo in New Jersey. Never been there, never been up north east, so I'm super excited to go to New Jersey and New York area. This venue should be first class, should be awesome. Like I said, I've never been there, so we're going to see what's up. Also heading to New York, like I said some of the networking events are down there. I'll talk about those in a second. I'm heading down there a few times. Then after the event, my wife and I are staying for two to three more days, and we're just going to experience New York. We're going to stay in Manhattan, go check out Central Park, do all the tourist-y stuff that you would do down there. If any of you listeners have great restaurants or are possibly in New York, hit me up. I'd love to hear what you have to say there. Shoot me a message on social media wherever you can find me anywhere, @ryanknuppel or at Knup Sports, at Knup Solutions wherever you want to find me. Let me know what should I do in New York? Ryan Knuppel: 04:30 What should I see in my two, three days that I'm there after the event? Excited about that. I mean the schedule of this event it's really a three day event. It's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for the most part. Tuesday is kind of slow. It's going to be more, I think there's a sports betting master class that I'm really looking forward to going to. How much this really applies to me I don't know, but I'm here to learn guys. I just want to learn. I want to soak it all up. I want to understand what people are talking about in the space. There's a betting masterclass that's going to look at how odds are formed and things like that, things that I probably already know, but now they're teaching the United States people and sports book operators and upcoming people how this stuff works. I'm really curious to hear what that's all about. Ryan Knuppel: 05:14 I think there's a esports insider thing. I'm not a big esports guy but hey, I may sit in and listen as well. Then the big piece on Tuesday night is the pre registration networking free drinks at the 40/40 Club, Jay-Z's club in New York. That's going to be awesome. I'll talk again about that in a bit. Then on Wednesday really the fun begins. The exhibit's open, a bunch of tracks you can go to, a bunch of conferences that just has a whole number of tracks that you can pick and choose from and pop into and go to. I haven't laid out my detailed schedule on what I'm doing as far as tracks go, but I'm sure I'll pop into many of them, learn so many things, and go from there. There's an affiliate insider master class, I'm excited to hear this. I've been in the affiliate space forever. I serve many affiliates, I work with affiliates. All my clients are affiliates or many of them. This is going to be a good one. I'm excited to learn something here and hopefully take something back to my clients from this as well. Ryan Knuppel: 06:16 Then there's more networking afterwards I think at the Meadowlands rooftop bar that night for the official party and reception. Then we fast forward to Thursday and there's more tracks, the sports betting track, a state of the nation track, demystifying sports betting track. There's a whole bunch of different sessions in there that I'm going to go there as well to learn and just learn more, and then a closing networking party at the Sky Room in New York. This is supposed to be one of the most beautiful roof top bars in New York going from there. Then on Friday, I think there is a horse racing networking event, but I'm probably not going to that unless the week goes differently than planned and all of a sudden I need to go to this or want to go to this. We'll see how that goes. As far as the speakers go, like I said, there's over 170 of them. There's a ton of speakers that are speaking in some manner at this event. Ryan Knuppel: 07:09 There's a whole number that I'm really excited to hear, probably a list of 30 40 already that I have that I'm like, "Man I want to hear them. I want to talk to them." A couple of them I'll give you why and maybe a couple stories about why I want to talk to them or hear them speak. I'm excited for Ryan Howard and Brian Westbrook being a part of that Capital group that's going to talk. For one, I mean I'm kind of from the mid west and Ryan Howard is a St. Louis guy. I've been a baseball fan forever, so excited to hear what he has to say being an ex pro athlete. Brian Westbrook I have friends here in Orlando that are really good friends with Brian, so I'm excited to kind of talk to him and let him know that I have common friends, common interests and common friends back here in Orlando. Ryan Knuppel: 07:53 Then another one I want to hear is [Nick Bonaddio 00:07:56] from [Fanduel 00:07:57] Group. I've had him on a podcast interview in the past on this show actually, and talked to Nick back I don't know it was probably a year ago. I'm excited to connect with him in person, talk to him after he speaks and just see what he has going on. I'm excited to hear from Brian Musburger of the VSiN Network. I mean I know that's an exploding area, exploding network, so I'm excited to hear what he has to say. Then there's just guys in the industry. Ryan Knuppel: 08:21 There's guys that are, I'm a media guy, I'm talking, I'm writing, I'm in the content business. Chris Grove, Dustin Gouker, Brett Smiley, Dan Back all these kinds of guys I mean there's hundreds of them at this event. Those are some of the names that I'm excited to hear what they have to say and meet them in person. Some of them I have already met, but I'm excited to meet others in person as well as we go. Again, the speaker list is huge. I'll put a link in the show notes here of all the speakers that are out there and of the agenda of this thing so you can check it out. It's going to be quite an experience and quite and event. I'm really excited about it. Ryan Knuppel: 08:59 Now, I think the biggest piece that I'm excited about, and probably the biggest reason I'm going is for the networking. I love to network. I think in this industry in any industry it's true that your net worth is your network. I'm excited to meet people. I'm excited to connect with people. I'm excited to connect others with other people. That's one thing that I enjoy doing, meeting people, understanding what they need, and then looking into my extended network and seeing who can help them. Even if it's not me that can help them, sometimes it is, but sometimes it's not. Sometimes I have somebody in my network that can help them. I'm excited to do a lot of that and just connect people with the right people from this event, and do what I can my small part in the networking space. I'm going to attend all those events. I'm going to be there the whole time, very excited. Ryan Knuppel: 09:46 The first one like I said, Jay-Z's trendy sports bar. Oh man, I cannot wait for this. In New York City, never been to New York I mean let alone going to a Jay-Z sports bar. It's going to be awesome. It looks like a great place. Like I said, my wife is going to be able to go with me, so she'll be able to experience all of this as well. If you're going to be there, if you're listening to this and you're going to be there, please, please, please look me up, shoot me a message. Let's find the time to connect at any of these networking events. Even if we just talk for a few minutes, I'd love to say hello and just get to know you and understand what you are doing in this industry. Again, it's a fun industry, and I've been in it a long time. Now, I'm really interested in what you're doing as well. The second one is the Betting on Sports America official networking party. Ryan Knuppel: 10:29 This is right there at the Meadowlands I believe it's a roof top networking party. It's the home of the FanDuel Sportsbook, they're in New Jersey. We're going to kind of get a behind the scenes tour of the Sportsbook. We're going to see some awesome views of The Hudson, to The Manhattan, complimentary food and drinks of course. We're just excited for this one as well. That's on I believe on Wednesday. Then on Thursday is the closing networking party. This one is from the roof top bar in Manhattan at the Sky Room, that's going to be amazing as well. Again, complimentary food and drinks, the sports betting hall of fame right around there. That's going to be cool to see. Oh man, just all sorts of great experiences and great times. If you're at any of these, if you're planning on going to any of these, please hit me up, holler at me. I'd love to get together with you. What are my goals of this? Why am I going to this event? Why am I so excited about this event? Ryan Knuppel: 11:20 I've kind of talked about most of this already, but let me lay out what my goals are for this event. First of all, as I just said from the networking, I want to meet and connect with as many people as possible. I have already started a list. I'm a planner, I'm an organizer. I'm a kind of a freak type project managing guy. I've already started a list of people and when I'm going to meet them, how I'm going to meet them, when I'm going to connect with them. You're probably already on that list, but if you're not, please let me know if you're going to be there, holler at me and we will connect and talk and understand how maybe we can help each other. You never know, the more people you talk to, the more understanding of others you are, and the more ways you can figure out how to help each other get to where you want to be in business. Then the second reason I'm there is to get to where I want to be in business, right? Ryan Knuppel: 12:07 I mean again, I provide content. My business provides content in this space. I do consulting. I want to become a speaker, all of the stuff in the sports betting industry. I'm going here to find new clients. I'd love to find some new work. I'd love to partner with some people and provide content for them, do some consulting for them, speak at their events. I'm going to connect and really find more work. I'd love to grow at this event. I can't imagine a better spot, a place where hundreds or thousands of people in my niche are going to be ... oh man, it's just going to be amazing. I can't wait. I really hope to grow a few clients and go from there. The third reason is to simply learn. I want to learn everything I can. I want to soak up all of the information and advice and tips that come from this. Even if it's not necessarily in my wheelhouse, I think the more you know, the wider your knowledge base is, the more powerful you are. Ryan Knuppel: 13:03 I'm excited to learn just learn all about the sports betting industry. I feel like I know a lot, but you can never know it all. Understanding how New Jersey is doing with the legalized sports betting, what other states are coming on board, and just how that whole thing is working is very intriguing to me. Excited to learn from all the experts here at this event. Then lastly, I mean it's kind of a goal of mine to speak at this event next year. I'm kind of going to try to connect with people. I'm going to soak up every ounce of how this works. Hopefully, you'll see me back at Betting on Sports America 2020, and you'll see me on that speaker list, that's kind of one of my goals. I'm going to try to make that happen from this event here. There you go, that's a lot to hear. Ryan Knuppel: 13:50 That's a preview of the 2019 Betting on Sports America Conference in New Jersey taking place next week April 23rd through the 25th I believe are the dates, April 23rd through the 25th. Excited to fly into New York, New Jersey, excited to go to this conference, learn and connect with each and every one of you. If you enjoyed this, please share it on social media, or just let me know. Holler at me on LinkedIn, anywhere. Let me know that you did listen to it. Lastly, a quick little plug, I'm also looking to interview anybody that wants to talk about what they do, talk about sports betting, talk about this industry, that's what this show's here for. It's an open platform that I can talk to people and just do what I want. I would really love to connect with you. Hit me up, let's talk. Let's schedule an interview time. Maybe we can even get your product or service or whatever you do out to a broader audience. Ryan Knuppel: 14:44 My goal is to help you do that with this podcast. Thanks again for tuning into the Knup Sports Show. I am Ryan Knuppel. From here, from there have a great day. We'll talk to y'all soon. Bye-bye. Resources Betting on Sports America 2019 website Interview with Nik Bonaddio on my show. I refer to Knup Sports often in my show. That's our sports passion site. Check out KnupSports.com here. If you are looking for my services you can find more information on the Knup Solutions website. Listen to more episodes of the Knup Sports Show. Contact Ryan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanknuppel Email: knupsports@gmail.com

It's the best time of the year. Baseball playoffs. College football. NFL. NBA starting. Apparently, the NHL has started too. Cody and Steve use the bucket-o-topics to rattle off the hot topics in each sport. Upsets. Parity. Favs. Dogs. Stros. Yanks. You name it. Let's all drink red bull and dive in. Cody did. Plus, America is great segments and college picks to save our betting lives.