Michael Konik, a sports writer from California, led a double life working for an elite group of sports gamblers known as The Brain Trust whose expertise in beating the Vegas bookies out of millions is legendary.
The group is so influential they operate behind a veil of secrecy and use a network of undercover agents to stake huge sums of money on sporting events – sometimes as much as $1 million on a single football game. The mastermind behind The Brain Trust is the man known in the book as Rick ‘Big Daddy’ Matthews, who is rumoured to be the world’s smartest sports bettor and who granted Konik unprecedented access to the operation’s innermost sanctum.
Although some names and chronologies in the book have been changed to protect the ongoing success of the Trust, Konik reveals how they – and he – got rich by beating the Vegas lines and the multimillion dollar offshore betting circuit. He details the excesses and the betrayals, the horse-trading and the paranoia, that are the perks and perils of life inside the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting.
The Smart Money is published 10 September by Britain’s leading gambling imprint, High Stakes Publishing, and is available to buy from the High Stakes bookshop in London.
About the author: Michael Konik is a journalist, author, TV personality, jazz singer, comedian, blackjack and poker player. He is the author of several books including Telling Lies and Getting Paid and has played in the World Series of Poker and the World Series of Blackjack.
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