Bet Bash 4

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What sports bettors can expect to get out of Bet Bash 4 at Circa​

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8/5/24

Bet Bash is back and bigger than ever.

The fourth annual sports gambling networking conference hosted by professional sports bettor Gadoon “Spanky” Kyrollos returns to Circa from Tuesday through Friday, with record registration of almost 700 attendees and 30 new pieces of content.

Along with four expert panels taking place Friday, followed by the second Sports Gambling Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Bet Bash 4 will feature 24 seminars and six live podcasts Wednesday and Thursday.

The seminars range from sports betting 101 and survivor contest strategy to pro handicapper and pro bookmaker roundtables, to correlated parlays, profiting from injuries and account longevity.

“The most important thing I want to say is that Bet Bash is all inclusive, in the sense we’re all welcoming. We want everyone to come,” Kyrollos said. “We have a sports betting 101 seminar, and there are currently 83 people signed up for that. That just goes to show you there’s a lot of people just getting into sports betting.

“Amateurs are welcome, and they want to learn, and then you have a lot of professionals that are there, too. We can all learn from each other.”

Premium and VIP tickets for Bet Bash that include Friday’s Hall of Fame dinner and Legacy Club party are sold out. But general admission tickets are still available for $699 each at betbash.co. They include speed networking and scavenger hunt events, seminars and expert panels, four open bars, and watch parties at Stadium Swim and the Circa sportsbook.

Kyrollos said Bet Bash has a a four-pronged focus.

“Our primary focus is on networking, where people can meet other sports betting enthusiasts and learn from them, from the amateur level all the way up to the super professional level like a Billy Walters,” he said. “The other three prongs are education — there’s lots of ways to learn at Bet Bash — legends, where we honor those in the Sports Gambling Hall of Fame that have paved the way before us. And, of course, fun is the fourth and final element.”

Also new to the event this year are a pre-conference golf tournament Tuesday morning at Walters’ Bali Hai Golf Club on the Strip and a poker tournament Tuesday afternoon at the Golden Nugget. Special VIP tickets that include the poker tournament are sold out, but tickets that include the golf tournament are still available.

The second class of the SGHOF, located in an enclave in the Circa sportsbook, features 10 inductees. Circa bookmakers Richie Baccellieri and Nick Bogdanovich, offshore bookmakers Jimmy Evarts and Ron Sacco and sports betting pioneer Vic Salerno are expected to be on hand Friday night for the ceremony.

The other five honorees who will be inducted posthumously are Michael Kent, Gene Maday, Herb Lambeck, Ed Curd and Chuck Schaupp.

 

[canuckg]

Spanky turned this into a for profit event and will continue to increase the price to pad his pockets. Only good reason to go is to network with folks to get outs.

 

[jjgold]

Spanky turned this into a for profit event and will continue to increase the price to pad his pockets. Only good reason to go is to network with folks to get outs.

Spanky a fraud

Plus a terrible line service

 

[Wagerallsports]

Sports betting convention Bet Bash returns to Circa this week​

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Professional sports bettor Gadoon “Spanky” Kyrollos believes that making just one connection is worth the price of admission to Bet Bash.

The fifth annual sports betting networking conference hosted by Kyrollos returns to Circa on Tuesday and runs through Friday, with more than 600 people expected to attend.

“I’ve never heard of anybody being a successful sports bettor to a certain degree and to be able to do that alone,” Kyrollos said. “You need help. You need to be able to get outs. It’s an industry that is huge on education and networking and people can benefit from that.

“Especially in today’s world, I think we’re missing that face to face connection. Everybody is on their phones and on their computers.”

General admission tickets are still available for Bet Bash 5 (for $699 each at betbash.co). They include four open bars, a speed networking event, watch parties at Circa sportsbook and Stadium Swim, 24 seminars, six live podcasts, two expert panels and a puzzle hunt with $10,000 in prizes.

“We’re all about networking, education, legends and fun. That’s our four-pronged focus, and to really bring the whole sports betting community together,” Kyrollos said. “Novice bettors and expert bettors and everybody in between can come and network with each other.”

Kyrollos said several of the most popular seminars, based on early registration, are “From Emotion to Execution: The Champion’s Mindset for Sports Betting,” featuring mindset and performance coaches Elliot Roe and Samm Hunter; “Go Big Without Going Broke: Scaling Your Sports Betting Empire” with pro sports bettor Antonino De Rosa; “Gambling & The Law”; and “Gambling & Taxes.”

Other seminars include “How to Think Like a Bookmaker” with Circa sportsbook director Chris Bennett; “Sports Betting 101”; “Surviving Survivor”; “The Advantages of Live Betting”; and “Beyond a Moonshot: A Process for Thinking Through NFL Same-Game Parlays.”

Hall of Fame class

There is also a seminar with the 2025 Sports Gambling Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted Friday night in a black-tie ceremony in Circa’s Galaxy Ballroom.

The three living members of the third SGHOF class are pro sports bettor Jeff Whitelaw; pro sports bettor and bookmaker Spiros “The Greek” Athanas, who founded offshore sportsbook Olympic Sports; and Paris Smith, former longtime CEO of offshore sportsbook Pinnacle.

“Sports betting is a male-dominated industry. To see someone like Paris Smith excel to such a high level is very inspiring, especially breaking that gender barrier,” Kyrollos said. “Being a father of two daughters, I love seeing that.”

Three other members of the class will be inducted posthumously: George “Skip” Chonoplis, a former bookmaker who founded offshore sportsbook Bet Grande; pro sports bettor and bookmaker Eugene Nolan, who was nicknamed “The Swamper” as a nod to his Louisiana roots; and Leo Hirschfield, who created the “Minneapolis Line,” which was the preeminent sports betting line for bookmakers and bettors in North America in the 1950s.

Hirschfield also published the “The Green Sheet,” which preceded “The Gold Sheet” as a valuable resource for sports bettors.

 

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