HeyJaredAmerican Gambler
Updates and dispatches from the research and writing of my forthcoming book, American Gambler (FSG).
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The House of Mirth with Kate Knibbs (opens the original)
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Edith Wharton’s tragic 1905 satirical novel The House of Mirth is about the commodification of women, the hypocrisy and false moral rectitude of the rich, and the conflict between art and romance and the strict social order of the Gilded Age. It’s also about gambling - on cards, on stocks, and on love.I’m joined to discuss this American classic by the writer Kate Knibbs. Kate is a senior writer at Wired who covers, among other things, the prediction market beat. We discuss Wharton’s novel as wel
A Brief History of Sports Gambling in America (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidhill.substack.com This is the talk I gave at Bet Bash earlier this month. As I state at the beginning, this isn’t a comprehensive history or even a scholarly one. It’s merely a collection of anecdotes and stories I found surprising and interesting as I’ve researched this topic over the last couple of years. Folks at Bet Bash seemed to enjoy it and encouraged me to do it again, so I’ve recorded it here for paying subscribers. If y
Off the road (opens the original)
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Odds Man Out with Jay Cohen (opens the original)
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Jay Cohen was one of the founders of World Sports Exchange in 1997, the first ever fully online sports betting site. In 2000 he was the first person ever convicted of violating the federal Wire Act for running an online sportsbook, despite the fact that his company was fully established and licensed in Antigua and that he built it with the advice of an army of lawyers, accountants and consultants to make sure he wasn’t breaking any American laws. Cohen was the only American offshore operator to
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