I made $100M+ betting on NBA games, now I own a pro soccer team

TL;DR

A former professional sports bettor reveals he made $10–12 million per year for 10–15 years betting on NBA basketball by exploiting a halftime line inefficiency tied to which basket the away team chooses for warm-ups. He automated his betting model, invested all winnings into Bitcoin, and later bought a pro soccer club (recently promoted to La Liga 2).

Key insights

• The away team chooses which basket to shoot at; most teams want offense in front of their bench in the first half, making first halves higher scoring and second halves lower scoring. A few teams (Utah
• The edge was three to four teams per year, all “shit teams,” and the speaker says this “was the biggest greatest edge in the history of gambling edges.”
• He never made bets himself; he used “beards” – other people (including Floyd Mayweather for half an afternoon) – to place bets so bookmakers didn’t know he was winning.