May 2, 2023 • 41 mins
May 2, 2023: Host Adam Kaufman (Twitter @adammkaufman) is joined by Dan Watkins (@danwatkinsradio) and DraftKings content manager Chirag Hira (@4RoyalC) to review the early lines for Game 2 between the Celtics and Sixers and hand out prop bets. The trio also looks across the NBA playoffs, plus the Red Sox are rolling, and the People's Parlay is a SMASH hit!
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Now wr KO presents Boston's only nightlysports betting show, The Gambler, with
Adam Kaufman covering spreads, props,parlays and more. The Gambler starts now
Here's Adam Kaufman. We are livinga real time sweat right now as this
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Nick's Heat game comes down to thewire. It's not a question at this
point as to who is going towin. As I watched John Lquizamo celebrate
the New York Knickbockers on my television. It is one ten, one oh
five with only four seconds left andJosh Hart at the free throw line.
The question, the question that weare dealing with right now is will the
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Heat cover the six and a half. Because if you've joined us last night,
Big Big, that's Dan Watkins,I'm Adam Kaufman. EJ. Pacheco's
our producer. In a little while, we will be joined by Shirak Hero,
who is the manager of content overat Raftkings, and we will he's
a big Lakers guy, will livesweat the Lakers all together, among other
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things. We will talk about thebig win for the Red Sox. But
we are monitoring this because if youtuned in last night, Night one of
this program, This is the Gamblerwith Adam Kaufman. I am Adam Kaufman.
We did something we will do eachand every night, and I hope
you tailed us, folks. Wedid a community parlay, a people's parlay,
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if you will, we will dothis with our guests every single night
where I pick a leg, Danpicks a leg, and our guest whomever
that maybe picks a leg. Well, last night it was Aton Schander from
Odd Shopper and the Three Legs.Watkins had the New York Yankees minus one
and a half. That was stressfulin its own right against the Cleveland Guardians
today, the Yankees were trailing tonothing all the way into the bottom of
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the sixth inning when they finally tiedit up and then scored one in each
of the seventh and eighth innings towin four to two. That's a hit.
I took bam ade Bio at undernineteen and a half points, which
I gotta tell you that was scary. As soon as Jimmy Butler was ruled
out and the relative hot start thatby Ada Bio standards, he got off
to. He had five points prettyquickly in that first quarter I think had
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seven and a half. It wasalways within reach. Well, he's sitting
at fifteen right now in this gameagain, is all but over for his
purposes. It is done. Yougot that at a nice number last night
too, by the way, becauseI looked this afternoon and it was down
to seventeen and a half. Yeah, I got that at let's see minus
one eighteen for Bam at under nineteenand a half. But Aton, it's
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Aton who took Miami at plus sixand a half, which he felt pretty
good about and should have felt prettygood about, especially with the knowledge that
Jimmy Butler maybe out there. Turnsout he doesn't play, that becomes scary.
But then the heater leading all throughoutthe game, and then late in
the fourth quarter of the Knicks theyturned things around on the back of Jalen
Brunson and Isaiah Hartenstein and all theseheroes for the Knicks with Jimmy Butler out
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and they overcome and they have earnedthemselves a sweep or a series split.
Parton me to even the series athome final score one to eleven one oh
five plus six and a half.It hits cash its people in parlay.
The People's part Lay Dan at plusseven twenty seven the three Leger It hits
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one to No one and no,great start, great one, no,
no, I can't wait to putit on Twitter just so we can miss
our next seven or something like that. But but but damn it, we're
gonna live in the moment. EJ. This for the future, I know,
like we didn't even discuss this,so I'm not throwing you under the
bus in the future. I thinkwe need to have some celebratory music or
something when we're able to nail thisthing, especially when it happens live on
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the air like this. What amoment, what a time to be alive.
Absolutely, let's just not be likethe twenty twenty Jacksonville Jaguars when they
won the week one and then lostfifteen straight. So let's just let's just
not do that. One eleven,one oh five. The Knicks have even
the series at one, and moreimportantly, a victorious People's parlay available for
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you to sponsor. If you're outthere listening, we want you to be
part of this show. By theway. Six one seven two six six
six eight six eight that six oneseven two six six six eight six to
eight Shrug, who I mentioned before, is going to join us in about
eight minutes or so, and wewill keep a close eye on all things.
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Obviously, Lakers Warriors Game one ofthat series that will be tipping off
very shortly. Of course, hadto wait for this first game to end.
Over in the NHL Playoffs, thosestupid Florida Panthers are still playing because
the Bruins blew it well. Theytook care of the Maple Leafs at least
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in game one. They went outand double them up four to two,
which actually led to a good percentageof losses for me tonight because I had
May Believes on the money line.I had the map Beliefs minus a goal
and a half. I had theover six and a half in that game.
Of course, it finishes four two, so that was a bummer.
Dallas is up to one against Seattleright now, and just everyone was on
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the under for that game. Welcome, by the way, welcome back to
Joel because he hasn't played all playoffs, comes in first shift, scores a
goal. Good for him, Yeah, coming off the concussion, and of
course you're surging Boston Red Sox whocannot be stopped. They've beaten the Toronto
Blue Jays, a good team,A good team, although only marginally better
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in the standings at eighteen and twelveto the Red Sox seventeen and fourteen,
but most would say a decisively betterteam, at least on paper. The
Red Sox have taken him down againafter leading this one early on it was
three nothing. They allowed a sixspot in the fifth, but just kept
on pound in a way at thatthe collection of Blue Jay's arms throughout there
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in this one. They had whatfive different pitchers in this one. Kokuchi
was the one who was really torchedand struggled. But the bullpen really was
not all that much better after TannerHawk was just obliterated. The Red Sox
bullpen, Yes, the bullpen heldup was really strong between Schreiber and Blyer
and Winkowski and Connor Wong. Youhad tweeted it out, Dan, you
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know, first Alex Verdugo last nightwith the game winning homer, and now
tonight Connor Wong four for four witha couple of home runs. Missus.
The cycle people are making a bigdeal out of that. Sorry, Yeah,
should have stopped at third. Tworuns, two RBI, just a
tremendous night for Connor Wong, who'shaving himself a good year. He's hitting
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right around three hundred as well.But more importantly, because you know,
individual performances only matter when we careabout player props, the Red Sox go
out and win the game. Andby the way, if you took the
over as I did, because youshould, I don't even care who they're
playing, dan, I don't careday night, holiday, opponent, who's
pitching. I don't care about anyof it. Bet the over when the
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Red Sox are involved every day,and I promise you it will cash more
often than not. Oh yeah,you're you're at least going to be in
it too. It's because, yeah, the Red Sox batch are legit.
Their starters are not great, theirbullpen is definitely going to allow runs,
uh you know typically anyway, Sothe over, I think the over was
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nine and a half coming in Hitsthirteen. I did take the Red Sox.
I saw some late money going onthe Red Sox at plus one and
a half, so I was like, yeah, all right, I'll throw
something on that. And uh,you know, as we saw obviously not
only did you know was that notan issue? They won the damn game.
Seven to six. Yeah, theydid. I mean like they're at
least becoming interesting, which is morethan I can say that. I was
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thinking going into this season that youknow, the Red Sox might actually be
worth investing some time in as wego forward into into the late spring into
the summer. I sure as hellhope so, because I don't know how
long the Celtics are going to carryus. I did not. You know,
they've not completely shaken my confidence,but but they rattle me when they
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have games like they did yesterday,or you know, a couple of showings
against the Hawks like they have.And we'll get into some of that with
Shark coming up in a little bitas well as we look ahead to Game
two tomorrow. But the Red Sox, to your point, even if the
Celtics do what we want them todo, which is, you know,
carry us into mid June and havea parade hopefully and a broadcasted you know
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from Fanuel Hall or something like that, then uh, you know, we
still have a good, solid couplemonths of baseball and looking ahead to football.
I want it. I need it, need it like I need air
to breathe. Right now, keepit up, Red Sox be interesting.
Don't be mediocre. I know,like it's weird to celebrate the team being
three games over five hundred, butwhatever, I'll take it. I will
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take it. I mean, theygot back to back wins against the Blue
Jays, which far better than theyever did last year. What Toronto I
think went sixteen and three against Bostonlast year, including including when they hung
a thirty spot at Fenway one nightin July last year. So that's a
good win tonight. Both these gamesthe first two games of this series.
They got four of them this week, and looking ahead to to Wednesday's game,
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Adam, the over under is setat nine. It's Alex Manoah versus
Nick Pavetta. I think I'm alreadygonna play hit the over on that play
the over. Do it play theover? Always always play the over.
I do want to mention too,because I'm not going to have I haven't
even told you this. I amnot going to have many nights like this.
I Am not going to have manyopportunities like this. Tonight is certainly
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not shaping up to be one ofthem. So I will look back on
last night because we're live sweating alot of stuff. Another goal in the
Seattle game. By the way,what's that another goal in the Seattle game?
Seattle just tied it two two wayto play the undercoff five minutes left
to go in the first believable.See, that was the I needed.
I'll go off topic for a second. I needed. This was not a
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big ask to complete a three legparlay earlier from the first game the Panthers
and Maple Leafs. I needed twogoals. I had the over one and
a half. I needed two goalsin the first period to complete the parlay.
That was all I needed. Idon't care who scored them, could
have been one from each team,whatever, I just needed two goals in
the first period, one one.And the Panthers even had a late power
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play, couldn't deliver on it.And then of course they explode in the
second, and then you know,goes quiet and the third. But but
where where was this this cracking thegames on crack, this cracking stars game?
That was what I needed in thefirst period. This is insane right
now? Three to two in thefirst period. Feeling pretty good about taking
us Seattle puck line tonight. Bythe way, getting one and a half,
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got a quick three to start offthis game. Seattle's pesky man.
They are a pesky team. Theyjust hang around. They barely rarely ever
get blown out. Just one gamewas a blowout against Colorado. Every other
game they were in it, andobviously they knocked off and defending Cup champs.
So what I was starting to say, and then we'll hit the break
and we'll bring in charag on theother side is last night I went or
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my collection of bets, and againthese are varying sums of money. It's
not like I'm all in on everysingle bet or anything like that. And
there were straight bets or Parlay's mixtureand props everything. I went twenty three,
seventeen and one yesterday, but morenotably than even going above five hundred,
which is always something to celebrate,the ROI the return on investment one
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hundred two percent, very nice.Doubled the investment yesterday. Now I bring
that up to celebrate yesterday's successes becauseagain, today is not shaping up to
be the same kind of day.But you know, I could use some
help here from this Lakers Warriors gameand some baseball that is still going on,
and if I could finish even fortoday, I would be thrilled.
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That's that's the kind of day ithas been so far with some of the
early outcomes. One I would saythe biggest I saw a boosted promo for
this game. This is something Iwill be keeping a close eye on in
in this game here is it wasvery reasonable. It was it was boosted
to plus one hundred, like toodoable to even shake your confidence. It
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was Steph at twenty five plus points, Lebron at twenty plus points. And
I want to say Wiggins at wasit Wiggins at fifteen plus or maybe it
was maybe it was Reeves at tenplus. I'd have to check the third
leg, but it was something likethat. So that that is getting a
lot of my focus here tonight.But let us step aside again. Dan
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Watkins is here as he always is. He Ja Pacheco, our producer.
I am Adam Kaufman. This isthe Gambler with Adam Kaufman. And when
we come back, we will bejoined by Shiakira, a manager of content
over at DraftKings, a betting analystand expert in his own right, and
a guy that I am constantly incommunication with. Is we will outline and
and preview and project our bets andit just send them into the universe to
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all that is positive. Every afternoon, hoping that you know, we were
in the green at the end ofthe night. We'll see. We'll see
how he's doing and how he's viewingthis game. Because he is a big
Lakers guy. He'll join us onthe other side. Down Back to the
Gambler with Adam Kaufman on six eightw r KO, streaming live on the
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Brewers in a money line, partof a parlay. They were up two
to one, or pardon me,they were tied at two. They had
to come from behind. They weredown to nothing, tied to two,
allowed to run in the eighth inning. It's three two, top of the
ninth. See if Milwaukee can savethe day. We'll find out. Meanwhile,
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this basketball game continues to be verytight, tied at thirty three.
Couple minutes into this second quarters.Has caught a little bit of fire as
I tracked that that ten rebound Davistwenty five point Curry twenty point Lebron parley
that I was talking about earlier,which again should hit like like just percentage
wise it should hit. That wouldbe a high ev kind of bet.
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Step is up to ten points.Lebron is still kind of quiet. He's
got me a little concerned. He'sover at four. But we got a
long way to go in this one. Obviously we know he's a guy capable
going on runs. Did you guysjump on the Lebron assist total tonight?
Is that five and a half?He's already at four? I did not,
Actually I did. I was onemy favorite play of the day.
One good on you. Yeah,I saw the promo video. Make sure
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you're checking out Dan on Twitter,Dan Watkins Radio. I'm at Adam M.
Kaufman And of course we are notalone. It is not just the
two of us. We have aguest every single night, sometimes a couple
in the future, and right nowyou can find him on Twitter at four.
That is the number four Royal rO y a l C four royal
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Shiragira, manager of content over atDraft Kings, Where did that come from?
That's my metaverse name. You knowme. I'm big into NFTs and
I have been in the crypto spacefor for at least now eight years,
I'd say maybe seven eight years I'vebeen in the crypto space. So Royal
sees my metaverse name. I havemy board aps and I have my other
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NFTs and repping a coda right nowon Twitter, so that's for you.
Yeah, it's Brandy Purposes for me. And after I lost my blue check
mark that I had for so longsince being at DraftKings, I said,
you know why, I got togo to the name that I want to
represent. You can always buy one, will take money. Hey, I'm
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a big elon guy, so I'mokay with that. But you're the one.
Yeah, um, But I meanI'm looking into it. I just
want to put together like a contentplan. And you know me, when
I when I think about content andexecuting it, that's like that's my day
to day. I live and breathethat stuff. So I'm not gonna make
a move on that until i havean exact plan laid out and how I'm
going to execute it. I getit. I get it. Let's talk
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a little bit about Celtics sixers,because the Celtics need to put together a
plan and actually execute it. Andif you asked Jalen Brown last night,
as some did reporters post game,he said they were unprepared or underprepared going
against the Sixers in Game one.It appeared once again they took a team
lightly like they did the Hawks withouta John Day Murray, this time without
the MVP. Joe lmbid. Congrats, sir, on your honor. He
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is not going to play game too. That's not official, but he's doubtful.
He's not going to play game too. Celtics are ten point favorites.
I'm looking at minus five ten onthe money line, which is, you
know, a dramatic number, verycomparable, maybe even a larger number than
what it was going into Game one. The overunder is pretty comparable to what
we saw for Game one. Itwas two fourteen and a half. I
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want to say at close for thatfirst game, to sixteen and a half
is what I'm looking at right now. For down it was a couple of
points higher. What shrog are yourexpectations for this game? Dude? The
Celtics bounce back, and not onlybounce back, but convincingly to where you
could be tempted to take the points. I'm tempted to take the points,
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but the move is likely to playeither first half Celtics because they're not going
to come out flat again or theway they closed that game after Tatum got
hit below the belt, it feltlike the whole team got hit below the
belt, punched in the nuts,square in the nuts. Yeah, so
he got knocked out basically, andit felt like the whole team kind of
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just like fell apart. Tatum wascooking the entire game and he didn't make
one field goal in the last tenminutes of the game, like what happened
there. So I agree with you, bet, I have already placed actually,
and I didn't do it straight.I think just part of a parlay.
For now I get to stop doingthese parlays. That's what that's where
I'm costing myself is Celtics team totalfor the first quarter is over twenty nine
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and a half and I just toyour point, I think they're going to
come out strong. Yeah, Andthe biggest concern is, you know,
clutch time and crunch time and howthey closed the game and whatnot, because
that's part of the reason why theybrought in Brogden and White to begin with,
is because they've had those issues formultiple years now, So it was
very weird to see the way Brogdengame of that turnover to Maxi and how
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they just close that game entirely JoeMassoula. I was very disappointed with him
being unable to call a timeout whenit's really necessary, Like why do you
have to call the time out whenthey've taken the lead like you were up
big? Why are you waiting forthem to take the lead before calling your
time out? Like what are yougoing to go go to like buy them
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or sell them after the game?Like I don't understand why you can't call
a timeout, And you mentioned theadjustments are coming in unprepared. It's like
did they come in thinking that andbeing's going to play that? That's basically
telling Doc Rivers that his game hasbeen shipped work because they said, oh,
we'll see, we'll see what happenedto them be he's doubtful, but
we'll see. He participated shoot aroundor whatever he was on the court before
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the game, So I just thinkthat it brown. He became out super
hot, like he finished the gameshooting what seventy eight percent from the field,
eighty percent from the field, Likewhat was going on? I understand.
That's that's kind of the remarkable thingthough, because he was cooking early
Shiag. We also like first quarterJaylen, like you read about, he
only finished eight of ten for thegame. I don't know why they and
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maybe when he talks about a lackof preparation or game plan or whatever.
I don't know why. And Irealized, like Jason had an a fishing
night, Tatum had a good night. So this is not a knock on
Tatum or anything like that. Imean, the team overall shot very well,
shot almost sixty percent from the fieldand forty percent from three. But
when Jalen is eight of ten,when he's three of four from the three
point line, when he is justcooking, how do you take the ball
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out of his hands like that?How does he not take anything? Fourth
quarter? Yeah, that didn't makeany sense to me. I really didn't
understand what they were doing. ButI mean, it's just they've been notorious
for this all year. They justlike they're like, oh, yeah,
we can turn it on whenever wewant. We're better than everybody else.
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Like it's been very very like commontheme, and I'm worried it's just the
coaching. It's just not there forthem. And Joe Massoula is like probably
one of the younger coaches in theentire league, so he doesn't really have
playoff experience, Like has he beenthrough the ringer on this in the in
the NBA, Like, I don'tknow. I'm not really confident in his
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abilities, But I mean I amconfident in the abilities of the players that
are on the court and the teamthat's been put together with Brass Stevens and
previously by Danny Ainge, Like thepieces that are in place for this team
are should be proven. In theEast, you can still get the Celtics
minus won the half games we're goinginto the series. I am already invested
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heavily. You can get the Celticsminus one and a half games at plus
one forty four? Is that appealingto you? I already have a position
minus one and a half. Ialready have a position for the series to
go and to go six games.So minus one and a half implies that
they're going to win in either sixif you're in games so four one or
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four two, not four three.So I wouldn't add. But it is
enticing because you said it's a plusnumber, right, exactly. Just seeing
it as a plus number. That'sthat's it's like where I'm drawn to putting
more on it. I mean,even series betting, even if you just
wanted to say Celtics are gonna winnumber of games, be damned, because
the series when it began, itwas something. It was crazy how much
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the number one up. I thinkit opened it two ninety or ish,
depending on the book you're looking atall the way up to almost minus six
hundred by the time that game camearound. And now with a game one
loss, I'm looking at minus oneninety six right now. I'm tempted.
I'm tempted just so throw a tonof money at it. Yeah. The
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play that I'm looking at is thisis an opportunity to find some value in
Eastern Conference futures, Like can thenCeltics take care of the Knicks and the
heat if they've beat the Sixers,I'm pretty sure that they can get the
job done in the Eastern Conference.So I think that there's some value that
has opened up on Eastern Conference futuresand even potentially like Eastern Conference finals MVP,
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because that's the thing now to thislast year, since it was introduced
real quick before we break. Isthere a prop bet or anything like that.
I don't know if you've you've reallyhad a chance to dive into it,
But is there a prompt that standsout to you for this game game
two, for this Lakers game No, no, no, no, this
Celtics and and Sixers game two.I would like to see Jalen have a
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takeover game, for sure. Ithink that there's definitely going to be him
that stands out. But that lineis probably what already sitting at twenty four
and a half brogged in was somebodythat was high on coming into this series.
I think Hee's going to be spectacular. And but we see a bounce
back game from Derek White. DerekWhite struggled in that game. That's why
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he wasn't really in there. AndI think that's the person if you're looking
for a player to buy low on, Derek White is the guy. Twelve
and a half is over under all, right, here's what we're gonna do.
We are going to break our numbertwo is on the way. We're
gonna give shirog a little bit ofa break. You need to vent about
bad bets. You've come to theright place. Tell us about it.
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Adam Kaufman on w r K OHEJ. Pollock, home run, no
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hitter gone, shut out gone.Mariners have tied the Athletics in the eighth
inning. There's hope for me yet, Dan Watkins, hope for you yet,
hope man on second, one down. We'll see what the Mariners can
do. Meanwhile, the third quarteris underway in Oakland and the Lakers and
Warriors are tied, so we'll keepan eye on that. Let's bring in
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you just got you, just gottaChris Taylor hit too, by the way,
keep it up, keep it up. Yes, let's get back.
Let's get back. Let's finish theday even at worst. Please, we
need some we need some work outof Stephen Lebron in particular to make that
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that potential of reality. Sharrock here, a manager of content over at DraftKings,
rejoins us we will get to thepeople's parlay in a matter of moments.
But Sharrock. We uh we weretalking off the top the show about
what happened earlier tonight between the Heatand the Knicks. No, Jimmy Butler
from Miami game taken. They're avery competitive one by ultimately by the Knicks.
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They had to rally late to toto take it at home. They
did. I know you were investedin the Knicks winning that game, so
obviously that was good for you,good for your bank roll as you look
ahead to Game three in Miami againon what Saturday? And that's not until
Saturday? Is that? Is thatpossible? This game is until Saturday.
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They're traveling, man, they're traveling. They got the break Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday. How long does it taketo get to South Beach from New
York? Are they going by horseand buggy? Are they walking? Are
they stopping over for a quick tourat Disney going to or landover a little
bit Saturday? Mother of god,Seriously, hey man, it's been it's
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been a long first round. Theyhad a tough first round series and they
needed to get him a break.Poor baby, didn't They both win in
five or babies in their five starhotels and their first class accommodations and flights.
Let's give them three days. Ohgod, all right? What are
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you thinking about? Though? Whenit comes to betting this now Tide series,
we assume we don't know, butwe assume Jimmy Butler will be back,
especially after a month's rest, tocome back for this one. What
do you think for Game three?It's honestly, the best team in the
first half pretty much has this seasonhas been the Knicks, and the one
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of the best teams in the clutchhas been the Miami Heat. So maybe
looking at a double result Nick's Heatto close that game, or I'm not
confident in how the spread or whatto look at because right now what we're
sitting at is minus three and ahalf to Heat our favor and you're guessing
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Jimmy Butler will come back for thatgame, but we're not sure, So
it's a wait and see approach.For me. I just think the better
play is to take the kind ofdifferent angle and play it with the better
team in the first half this wholeentire season has been the next so go
with them and then look at howthe second half is going and try to
take a live line on the Heat. So I want to mention this too,
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Dan that so Sharraq he's just waytoo polite to correct me on the
air. He shot me a textmessage and he said, this game is
in San Francisco, not Oakland.Oh that's right, they moved. Yeah,
they did move. Uh so itused to be Oakland. So so
I'm like half wrong. I meanI'm completely wrong, but I'm half wrong.
And that they used to be inOakland, I should just say the
Bay Area, but in the Baywell, but I but I bring this
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up not only to point out howpolite Sharaq is, but to also say
so he is a native Californian.Hence again the Lakers fandom that he has
h not just like our our guyEJ who's on the bandwagon, but sharg
is actually from California. But butyou know, you've been you've been out
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here on the East Coast long enoughto know that like to us, San
Francisco, Oakland, it's all thesame. Yeah, exactly exactly when you
when you look at it, Oaklanddoesn't even count anymore. After everything that
they've been through that that town,it's like Sacramento has woken up now.
The playoff teams, so everyone justgoes. Oh, you got Southern California
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teams, you got the Central teamand in Sacramento. Then you go up
a little bit north and get theWarriors. No more crossing that bridge.
Listen, I am I'm rooting for, you know, not not not like
literal problems. But I want moresuffering in Oakland tonight. I want the
Oakland A's to lose. I wantSeattle to to win that game. One
one. May you play that runline or do you play the money line?
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Uh? Well both actually uh inin separate bets. So the Seattle
money line is ultimately the one thatI care the most about. But I
do have the run line at minusone and a half as well. So
if I were to be greedy andthey could score two, that would be
great. But it's you know,I only need to be selfish to a
point. All right, let's dothe people's parlay. If anyone missed it,
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I explained it. But we willeach offer you a leg me Dan
Sharag We will build the parlay whicheverbook the three of us, you know,
prefer to use. Whatever you wantto wager. There are no rules
to that end other than you arerequired to play. We did this for
the first time last night with AtonShander. It was almost plus eight hundred
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and it hit just barely by theskin of our teeth. It hit as
we were coming on the air.Let's see if we can go two for
two. Sharag, you're the guest. I'm sitting here with the book open.
I'm ready to place a bed.You tell me what am I doing?
We got you here? Yeah,yeah, I don't know. I
don't know what happened there. Itwas. It was the pregnant pause to
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offer suspense to the people. Yes, so the pause was because I came
up with a great name for thisvet. Oh, here we go.
Okay. So the idea that Icame up with is calling it the Gambler's
Gauntlet. Same because you don't knowhow many legs you're gonna be going through.
You gotta trek through each one,and whoever loses it for us goes
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down the gauntlet. I like it. I like it. I like it
so here because I'm superstitious. Here'swhat we'll do. We'll continue calling it
the People's part Lay until it loses, and then when it does, like
tomorrow, we'll go to the Gambler'sGauntlet. We're not losing tomorrow, are
you. We're not gonna We're notgonna wake up with the loss. What
do you got? Well, notwake up? This is you know,
we're gonna experience real time. Whathave you got? I'm gonna go with
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the safe play here and go withJason Tatum over four and a half?
Jason Tatum? What over four anda half a fifth? He's gone over
in three consecutive games, He's goneover in five of his last six.
I think after that outburth of scoringthe the adjustment is going to be to
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limit him a little bit, potentiallytrap him, give him an opportunity for
some easy as fifth. Jalen Brownshould look to score more, so I
think four and a half a fifthshould be easy for him to cover.
It's also not very juiced up,so you have to pay too much to
add it to that parlay leg Allright, Dan, what do you have?
I'm going to another one. Ithink it's a gimme give me the
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over and the Oilers Nights game tomorrownight, and that's at six and a
half. These teams played four timesin the regular season. The goal totals
where seven, seven, seven andeleven and the events and Oilers have just
heated up. They've scored five ormore in each of their last three games
as they cruise in all the secondround six and a half Oilers Knights.
That was what you said, justto confirm, all right, And I
am going to because I looked inwhat I wanted to add. I was
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looking at a player combo and itcouldn't be combined into the parlay, so
it doesn't work. So I amgoing to do all right, let me
make sure I can do this.I'm going back to that Celtics game,
going back to that Sea Sixers game, and off of what we were talking
about earlier in terms of just offenseand production and expectation. In this game,
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I'm looking at the second quarter,okay, okay, I'm looking at
the second quarter total, which Ibelieve. Let me see second quarter total
points fifty five and a half.I'm going over, okay, so that
gives me a three leg same gameparlay plus in this particular case of plus
five twenty seven, it's Tatum overfour and a half assists, over fifty
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five and a half second quarter totalpoints, and also the Oilers Golden Knights
over six and a half goals.I think that's it work for everybody voice
and I And I'll tell you what, sharag not only am I gonna make
my bet right now, I'm gonnaround robin it. What is even the
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point of around robin ing a threelegg or? Man, it feels good
when all three hit? Tell youthat, Yeah, it definitely does.
That's just that's just free free money. As you might say, all right
before we let you go, Becausewe're gonna let you go in a quick
second. Here, just project ahead, my man, because your Lakers are
up by seven points right now midwaythrough the third quarter. They gonna hang
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on get the job done tonight.Yeah, I like I said when I
came on, I thought they weregoing to be able to cover that four
and a half bread. I alsohave them on the money line. The
defense has come up. The thingthat was very shocking in that first half
was the Warriors as a franchise.Did you know this is a three point
shooting franchise. That was the mostthree pointers they've hit as a franchise in
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that first half. So there wasbound to be some variant back in the
favor of the Lakers. And Ithink they're gonna be able to take care
of business due to that rest ofbattle before you go? Is Steph gonna
wake up and get me to twentyfive points because he's at thirteen right now?
I do not think so. Ithink what's gonna end up happening?
They might just late let the threadgo and prepare for a game two.
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Oh, the Warriors better make arun. I can't stand the idea of
that happening. I need that.I need. This is the This is
the bet I care more about thanany other bet. Tonight is Steph Curry
getting to twenty five and Lebron.Lebron needs five more. I just need
him to get to twenty two moreassists from him too. Miss such a
bunny. You just missed such abunny. It like literally missed such an
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easy layout. All right, Sharrock, Hey, this was a lot of
fun. I hope you'll come back. Yeah, I'll definitely be back.
It was a great time, allright. Sharrock here, a manager of
content over at DraftKings. We aregoing to step aside one more segment on
the way before we call it anight down. Back in a Gambler with
(35:00):
m Kaufman on six eight w rKO streaming live on the iHeartRadio app,
or tell you're a smart speaker toplay w r KO on iHeartRadio. Why
are the Mariners messing with me rightnow? That's what I want to know,
Dan Watkins. Why are the Marinersmessing with me right now? They're
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up two to one to the bottomof the eighth, and of course the
A's have a man on second withone down. It's one of those things.
I mean, like the A's haveto win what once every two weeks,
So I guess, I guess it'sjust the night, not tonight.
They don't come on Seattle. Youscored two in the top of the inning.
Shut the door. Shut the door. A big over three for Bryce
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Harper, by the way, andthat Phillis Dodgers game. Anybody who was
hoping for a little something out ofBryce in his first game this season,
just looking at some of the numbershere in this Lakers game, I mean,
thank goodness, close at least youknow the starters. I jumped on
Shrugs minus one and a half ofthe third quarter, So I'm sweating that
out here as we wrap up forthe night. Yeah, I jumped onto
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too. I only I didn't throwmuch on it, but so I'd like
to the point where I had alreadyforgotten about it. But some of these
others, I'm I'm keeping a closeeye on. Yep. I love I
love the Derek White play for tomorrow. I pounced on that. Why wasn't
he part of your parlay? Imean, Shroug had already picked that,
is like his pick for tomorrow tobegin with, but he didn't include it
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in the parlt. I know,but I also really liked that Edmonton Vegas
over. I'll be going solo onthat as well. For tomorrow the Carolina
Jersey game. You know, Idon't like betting unders, but I would
think that might be the game totake an under on. I took so
A lot of people were on this, and so I followed suit. I
jumped on it. There was aprop bet that, you know, just
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a just a straight bet Steph Curryunder forty three and a half points rebounds
assist tonight really, oh yeah,to cool off after that game the other
day, you know what he hasright now? Fourteen wow, three minutes
to go in the third quarter.I mean, I'm I'm I'm rooting for
him to you know, I don'twant him to start to like grab boards
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and dish out assists. But butwe need some points here, Steph,
catch fire a little bit. Giveme. He's not even on the court
right now, so playing the entirefourth quarter. Yeah, like that's you
know, it's that's time. There'sthere's plenty of time for him to get
hot. We need it. We'rewilling get into existence. So we have
had a fun couple of nights hereto start off this this show. Obviously,
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he had a brand new show atWRKO. You can listen to us
worldwide. The Gambler with Adam KaffmanDan Watkins is here will be you know,
Monday through Thursday, right alongside herewith me. We will occasionally hear
from Brian Antonelli. E J.Pacheco is our producer. Different guests every
single night. Ahon Chander from OddShopper last night. He will be a
I imagine a frequent contributor. Muchthe same for Sharrock Hero from DraftKings,
(37:59):
who was just with us for themajority of the last two hours. Tomorrow,
This guy, I probably won't bugas often to be a he'll be
a semi regular guest. Let's say, uh love him, known him for
years known him for probably a decadeplus at this point. He is He's
just an amazing human and so muchfun to listen to on the air.
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And people are going to be excited, Uh, Scott Farrell of Formula of
Farrell on the bench or Scott FarrellFarrel on the bench for anyone that it's
not a good invitation, but it'swhat I've got. Scottie Farrell is going
to join us tomorrow night on theshow for the first hour of the program.
I'm very excited to have Scott on. When I found out, you
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know, that we were going tobe doing this show, Dan, he
was one of the first people Ithought of that it was, Yeah,
Scott's got to come on the firstweek. Excellent, love it. I'm
looking forward to it. Big guyin the space, the gambling space,
he's over at think he's at SportsGrid right now and it has been there
for a while. He was,you know, he's he's been on every
(39:07):
radio station I think that exists inthe country. The man did you know
play by play in the NHL backin the day. He's he's well traveled.
It worked with Howard Stern for along time. Man's awesome. Man's
awesome, He's gonna be with ustomorrow night. But yeah, this,
God, these two hours they flyby. They absolutely fly by each and
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every night, don't they. Theysure do. It's kind of nuts,
you really do. Lebron's taking aseat two. He's getting a little rest
for what could be. I reallyneed those two assists. I really need.
He's getting worried. I am alittle bit. Yeah, you had
four in the first quarter. Thisis like Jalen Brown's point total all over
again last night, where I thoughtit was cruising and then he just does
nothing for two quarters and then Ireally have to sweat at the end.
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I need five points from Davis,five points from Lebron, a dozen points
from Steph. Now it's three.No, sorry that was Russell, not
Lebron. So it's still five pointsfrom Lebron and a dozen points from Steff.
This the Warriors offense is just perplexingtonight in general. Yeah, phrase,
they're leading score with twenty two.I mean, we're not gonna come
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well, I shouldn't say that.I was gonna say we're not gonna come
close to to get in a dozenthree pointers between Steph and Clay, but
we could. They're at eight witha quarter plus to go. They just
need stuff to heat up a littlebit. Yeah, yea three, yeah,
right on the nose, sixteen ofthirty nine. Too much Jordan pool
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time, none of that, noneof that, get stuff on the floor.
All right, we gotta go,We gotta go. Two hours are
up, but thank you for beingwith us. We will do it again
in twenty two hours thanks to EJ. Pacheco, our producer. Stay tuned
for the podcast available you know acrossthe iHeart network and wherever you find your
podcast, we're gonna be I'll tweetout links at Adam M. Kaufman as
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to where you can find everything.Of course, Dan at Dan Watkins Radio
Shron We mentioned him earlier. He'swith all his crypto stuff. You can
get him on Twitter at four RoyalC. And this has been a lot
of fun. Dan, always apleasure. Absolutely looking forward to tomorrow The
Gambler with Adam Kaufman and tomorrow nightScottie Farrell. Scott Farrell will join us.
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Gonna be a lot of fun andof course we will come on during
what is likely going to be thefourth quarter of the Celtics sixers, and
I hope it's a romp in favorof Boston. We'll see talk to you
then. You've been listening to TheGambler with Adam Kauffman on six eight w
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Here's Adam Kaufman. We are livinga real time sweat right now as this
(00:22):
Nick's Heat game comes down to thewire. It's not a question at this
point as to who is going towin. As I watched John Lquizamo celebrate
the New York Knickbockers on my television. It is one ten, one oh
five with only four seconds left andJosh Hart at the free throw line.
The question, the question that weare dealing with right now is will the
(00:43):
Heat cover the six and a half. Because if you've joined us last night,
Big Big, that's Dan Watkins,I'm Adam Kaufman. EJ. Pacheco's
our producer. In a little while, we will be joined by Shirak Hero,
who is the manager of content overat Raftkings, and we will he's
a big Lakers guy, will livesweat the Lakers all together, among other
(01:04):
things. We will talk about thebig win for the Red Sox. But
we are monitoring this because if youtuned in last night, Night one of
this program, This is the Gamblerwith Adam Kaufman. I am Adam Kaufman.
We did something we will do eachand every night, and I hope
you tailed us, folks. Wedid a community parlay, a people's parlay,
(01:25):
if you will, we will dothis with our guests every single night
where I pick a leg, Danpicks a leg, and our guest whomever
that maybe picks a leg. Well, last night it was Aton Schander from
Odd Shopper and the Three Legs.Watkins had the New York Yankees minus one
and a half. That was stressfulin its own right against the Cleveland Guardians
today, the Yankees were trailing tonothing all the way into the bottom of
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the sixth inning when they finally tiedit up and then scored one in each
of the seventh and eighth innings towin four to two. That's a hit.
I took bam ade Bio at undernineteen and a half points, which
I gotta tell you that was scary. As soon as Jimmy Butler was ruled
out and the relative hot start thatby Ada Bio standards, he got off
to. He had five points prettyquickly in that first quarter I think had
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seven and a half. It wasalways within reach. Well, he's sitting
at fifteen right now in this gameagain, is all but over for his
purposes. It is done. Yougot that at a nice number last night
too, by the way, becauseI looked this afternoon and it was down
to seventeen and a half. Yeah, I got that at let's see minus
one eighteen for Bam at under nineteenand a half. But Aton, it's
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Aton who took Miami at plus sixand a half, which he felt pretty
good about and should have felt prettygood about, especially with the knowledge that
Jimmy Butler maybe out there. Turnsout he doesn't play, that becomes scary.
But then the heater leading all throughoutthe game, and then late in
the fourth quarter of the Knicks theyturned things around on the back of Jalen
Brunson and Isaiah Hartenstein and all theseheroes for the Knicks with Jimmy Butler out
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and they overcome and they have earnedthemselves a sweep or a series split.
Parton me to even the series athome final score one to eleven one oh
five plus six and a half.It hits cash its people in parlay.
The People's part Lay Dan at plusseven twenty seven the three Leger It hits
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one to No one and no,great start, great one, no,
no, I can't wait to putit on Twitter just so we can miss
our next seven or something like that. But but but damn it, we're
gonna live in the moment. EJ. This for the future, I know,
like we didn't even discuss this,so I'm not throwing you under the
bus in the future. I thinkwe need to have some celebratory music or
something when we're able to nail thisthing, especially when it happens live on
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the air like this. What amoment, what a time to be alive.
Absolutely, let's just not be likethe twenty twenty Jacksonville Jaguars when they
won the week one and then lostfifteen straight. So let's just let's just
not do that. One eleven,one oh five. The Knicks have even
the series at one, and moreimportantly, a victorious People's parlay available for
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you to sponsor. If you're outthere listening, we want you to be
part of this show. By theway. Six one seven two six six
six eight six eight that six oneseven two six six six eight six to
eight Shrug, who I mentioned before, is going to join us in about
eight minutes or so, and wewill keep a close eye on all things.
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Obviously, Lakers Warriors Game one ofthat series that will be tipping off
very shortly. Of course, hadto wait for this first game to end.
Over in the NHL Playoffs, thosestupid Florida Panthers are still playing because
the Bruins blew it well. Theytook care of the Maple Leafs at least
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in game one. They went outand double them up four to two,
which actually led to a good percentageof losses for me tonight because I had
May Believes on the money line.I had the map Beliefs minus a goal
and a half. I had theover six and a half in that game.
Of course, it finishes four two, so that was a bummer.
Dallas is up to one against Seattleright now, and just everyone was on
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the under for that game. Welcome, by the way, welcome back to
Joel because he hasn't played all playoffs, comes in first shift, scores a
goal. Good for him, Yeah, coming off the concussion, and of
course you're surging Boston Red Sox whocannot be stopped. They've beaten the Toronto
Blue Jays, a good team,A good team, although only marginally better
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in the standings at eighteen and twelveto the Red Sox seventeen and fourteen,
but most would say a decisively betterteam, at least on paper. The
Red Sox have taken him down againafter leading this one early on it was
three nothing. They allowed a sixspot in the fifth, but just kept
on pound in a way at thatthe collection of Blue Jay's arms throughout there
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in this one. They had whatfive different pitchers in this one. Kokuchi
was the one who was really torchedand struggled. But the bullpen really was
not all that much better after TannerHawk was just obliterated. The Red Sox
bullpen, Yes, the bullpen heldup was really strong between Schreiber and Blyer
and Winkowski and Connor Wong. Youhad tweeted it out, Dan, you
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know, first Alex Verdugo last nightwith the game winning homer, and now
tonight Connor Wong four for four witha couple of home runs. Missus.
The cycle people are making a bigdeal out of that. Sorry, Yeah,
should have stopped at third. Tworuns, two RBI, just a
tremendous night for Connor Wong, who'shaving himself a good year. He's hitting
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right around three hundred as well.But more importantly, because you know,
individual performances only matter when we careabout player props, the Red Sox go
out and win the game. Andby the way, if you took the
over as I did, because youshould, I don't even care who they're
playing, dan, I don't careday night, holiday, opponent, who's
pitching. I don't care about anyof it. Bet the over when the
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Red Sox are involved every day,and I promise you it will cash more
often than not. Oh yeah,you're you're at least going to be in
it too. It's because, yeah, the Red Sox batch are legit.
Their starters are not great, theirbullpen is definitely going to allow runs,
uh you know typically anyway, Sothe over, I think the over was
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nine and a half coming in Hitsthirteen. I did take the Red Sox.
I saw some late money going onthe Red Sox at plus one and
a half, so I was like, yeah, all right, I'll throw
something on that. And uh,you know, as we saw obviously not
only did you know was that notan issue? They won the damn game.
Seven to six. Yeah, theydid. I mean like they're at
least becoming interesting, which is morethan I can say that. I was
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thinking going into this season that youknow, the Red Sox might actually be
worth investing some time in as wego forward into into the late spring into
the summer. I sure as hellhope so, because I don't know how
long the Celtics are going to carryus. I did not. You know,
they've not completely shaken my confidence,but but they rattle me when they
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have games like they did yesterday,or you know, a couple of showings
against the Hawks like they have.And we'll get into some of that with
Shark coming up in a little bitas well as we look ahead to Game
two tomorrow. But the Red Sox, to your point, even if the
Celtics do what we want them todo, which is, you know,
carry us into mid June and havea parade hopefully and a broadcasted you know
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from Fanuel Hall or something like that, then uh, you know, we
still have a good, solid couplemonths of baseball and looking ahead to football.
I want it. I need it, need it like I need air
to breathe. Right now, keepit up, Red Sox be interesting.
Don't be mediocre. I know,like it's weird to celebrate the team being
three games over five hundred, butwhatever, I'll take it. I will
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take it. I mean, theygot back to back wins against the Blue
Jays, which far better than theyever did last year. What Toronto I
think went sixteen and three against Bostonlast year, including including when they hung
a thirty spot at Fenway one nightin July last year. So that's a
good win tonight. Both these gamesthe first two games of this series.
They got four of them this week, and looking ahead to to Wednesday's game,
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Adam, the over under is setat nine. It's Alex Manoah versus
Nick Pavetta. I think I'm alreadygonna play hit the over on that play
the over. Do it play theover? Always always play the over.
I do want to mention too,because I'm not going to have I haven't
even told you this. I amnot going to have many nights like this.
I Am not going to have manyopportunities like this. Tonight is certainly
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not shaping up to be one ofthem. So I will look back on
last night because we're live sweating alot of stuff. Another goal in the
Seattle game. By the way,what's that another goal in the Seattle game?
Seattle just tied it two two wayto play the undercoff five minutes left
to go in the first believable.See, that was the I needed.
I'll go off topic for a second. I needed. This was not a
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big ask to complete a three legparlay earlier from the first game the Panthers
and Maple Leafs. I needed twogoals. I had the over one and
a half. I needed two goalsin the first period to complete the parlay.
That was all I needed. Idon't care who scored them, could
have been one from each team,whatever, I just needed two goals in
the first period, one one.And the Panthers even had a late power
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play, couldn't deliver on it.And then of course they explode in the
second, and then you know,goes quiet and the third. But but
where where was this this cracking thegames on crack, this cracking stars game?
That was what I needed in thefirst period. This is insane right
now? Three to two in thefirst period. Feeling pretty good about taking
us Seattle puck line tonight. Bythe way, getting one and a half,
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got a quick three to start offthis game. Seattle's pesky man.
They are a pesky team. Theyjust hang around. They barely rarely ever
get blown out. Just one gamewas a blowout against Colorado. Every other
game they were in it, andobviously they knocked off and defending Cup champs.
So what I was starting to say, and then we'll hit the break
and we'll bring in charag on theother side is last night I went or
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my collection of bets, and againthese are varying sums of money. It's
not like I'm all in on everysingle bet or anything like that. And
there were straight bets or Parlay's mixtureand props everything. I went twenty three,
seventeen and one yesterday, but morenotably than even going above five hundred,
which is always something to celebrate,the ROI the return on investment one
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hundred two percent, very nice.Doubled the investment yesterday. Now I bring
that up to celebrate yesterday's successes becauseagain, today is not shaping up to
be the same kind of day.But you know, I could use some
help here from this Lakers Warriors gameand some baseball that is still going on,
and if I could finish even fortoday, I would be thrilled.
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That's that's the kind of day ithas been so far with some of the
early outcomes. One I would saythe biggest I saw a boosted promo for
this game. This is something Iwill be keeping a close eye on in
in this game here is it wasvery reasonable. It was it was boosted
to plus one hundred, like toodoable to even shake your confidence. It
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was Steph at twenty five plus points, Lebron at twenty plus points. And
I want to say Wiggins at wasit Wiggins at fifteen plus or maybe it
was maybe it was Reeves at tenplus. I'd have to check the third
leg, but it was something likethat. So that that is getting a
lot of my focus here tonight.But let us step aside again. Dan
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Watkins is here as he always is. He Ja Pacheco, our producer.
I am Adam Kaufman. This isthe Gambler with Adam Kaufman. And when
we come back, we will bejoined by Shiakira, a manager of content
over at DraftKings, a betting analystand expert in his own right, and
a guy that I am constantly incommunication with. Is we will outline and
and preview and project our bets andit just send them into the universe to
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all that is positive. Every afternoon, hoping that you know, we were
in the green at the end ofthe night. We'll see. We'll see
how he's doing and how he's viewingthis game. Because he is a big
Lakers guy. He'll join us onthe other side. Down Back to the
Gambler with Adam Kaufman on six eightw r KO, streaming live on the
iHeartRadio app or tell your smart speakerto play WRKO on iHeartRadio. Guy the
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Brewers in a money line, partof a parlay. They were up two
to one, or pardon me,they were tied at two. They had
to come from behind. They weredown to nothing, tied to two,
allowed to run in the eighth inning. It's three two, top of the
ninth. See if Milwaukee can savethe day. We'll find out. Meanwhile,
(13:54):
this basketball game continues to be verytight, tied at thirty three.
Couple minutes into this second quarters.Has caught a little bit of fire as
I tracked that that ten rebound Davistwenty five point Curry twenty point Lebron parley
that I was talking about earlier,which again should hit like like just percentage
wise it should hit. That wouldbe a high ev kind of bet.
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Step is up to ten points.Lebron is still kind of quiet. He's
got me a little concerned. He'sover at four. But we got a
long way to go in this one. Obviously we know he's a guy capable
going on runs. Did you guysjump on the Lebron assist total tonight?
Is that five and a half?He's already at four? I did not,
Actually I did. I was onemy favorite play of the day.
One good on you. Yeah,I saw the promo video. Make sure
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you're checking out Dan on Twitter,Dan Watkins Radio. I'm at Adam M.
Kaufman And of course we are notalone. It is not just the
two of us. We have aguest every single night, sometimes a couple
in the future, and right nowyou can find him on Twitter at four.
That is the number four Royal rO y a l C four royal
c uh. I'm gonna have toask them where that name came from.
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Shiragira, manager of content over atDraft Kings, Where did that come from?
That's my metaverse name. You knowme. I'm big into NFTs and
I have been in the crypto spacefor for at least now eight years,
I'd say maybe seven eight years I'vebeen in the crypto space. So Royal
sees my metaverse name. I havemy board aps and I have my other
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NFTs and repping a coda right nowon Twitter, so that's for you.
Yeah, it's Brandy Purposes for me. And after I lost my blue check
mark that I had for so longsince being at DraftKings, I said,
you know why, I got togo to the name that I want to
represent. You can always buy one, will take money. Hey, I'm
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a big elon guy, so I'mokay with that. But you're the one.
Yeah, um, But I meanI'm looking into it. I just
want to put together like a contentplan. And you know me, when
I when I think about content andexecuting it, that's like that's my day
to day. I live and breathethat stuff. So I'm not gonna make
a move on that until i havean exact plan laid out and how I'm
going to execute it. I getit. I get it. Let's talk
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a little bit about Celtics sixers,because the Celtics need to put together a
plan and actually execute it. Andif you asked Jalen Brown last night,
as some did reporters post game,he said they were unprepared or underprepared going
against the Sixers in Game one.It appeared once again they took a team
lightly like they did the Hawks withouta John Day Murray, this time without
the MVP. Joe lmbid. Congrats, sir, on your honor. He
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is not going to play game too. That's not official, but he's doubtful.
He's not going to play game too. Celtics are ten point favorites.
I'm looking at minus five ten onthe money line, which is, you
know, a dramatic number, verycomparable, maybe even a larger number than
what it was going into Game one. The overunder is pretty comparable to what
we saw for Game one. Itwas two fourteen and a half. I
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want to say at close for thatfirst game, to sixteen and a half
is what I'm looking at right now. For down it was a couple of
points higher. What shrog are yourexpectations for this game? Dude? The
Celtics bounce back, and not onlybounce back, but convincingly to where you
could be tempted to take the points. I'm tempted to take the points,
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but the move is likely to playeither first half Celtics because they're not going
to come out flat again or theway they closed that game after Tatum got
hit below the belt, it feltlike the whole team got hit below the
belt, punched in the nuts,square in the nuts. Yeah, so
he got knocked out basically, andit felt like the whole team kind of
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just like fell apart. Tatum wascooking the entire game and he didn't make
one field goal in the last tenminutes of the game, like what happened
there. So I agree with you, bet, I have already placed actually,
and I didn't do it straight.I think just part of a parlay.
For now I get to stop doingthese parlays. That's what that's where
I'm costing myself is Celtics team totalfor the first quarter is over twenty nine
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and a half and I just toyour point, I think they're going to
come out strong. Yeah, Andthe biggest concern is, you know,
clutch time and crunch time and howthey closed the game and whatnot, because
that's part of the reason why theybrought in Brogden and White to begin with,
is because they've had those issues formultiple years now, So it was
very weird to see the way Brogdengame of that turnover to Maxi and how
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they just close that game entirely JoeMassoula. I was very disappointed with him
being unable to call a timeout whenit's really necessary, Like why do you
have to call the time out whenthey've taken the lead like you were up
big? Why are you waiting forthem to take the lead before calling your
time out? Like what are yougoing to go go to like buy them
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or sell them after the game?Like I don't understand why you can't call
a timeout, And you mentioned theadjustments are coming in unprepared. It's like
did they come in thinking that andbeing's going to play that? That's basically
telling Doc Rivers that his game hasbeen shipped work because they said, oh,
we'll see, we'll see what happenedto them be he's doubtful, but
we'll see. He participated shoot aroundor whatever he was on the court before
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the game, So I just thinkthat it brown. He became out super
hot, like he finished the gameshooting what seventy eight percent from the field,
eighty percent from the field, Likewhat was going on? I understand.
That's that's kind of the remarkable thingthough, because he was cooking early
Shiag. We also like first quarterJaylen, like you read about, he
only finished eight of ten for thegame. I don't know why they and
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maybe when he talks about a lackof preparation or game plan or whatever.
I don't know why. And Irealized, like Jason had an a fishing
night, Tatum had a good night. So this is not a knock on
Tatum or anything like that. Imean, the team overall shot very well,
shot almost sixty percent from the fieldand forty percent from three. But
when Jalen is eight of ten,when he's three of four from the three
point line, when he is justcooking, how do you take the ball
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out of his hands like that?How does he not take anything? Fourth
quarter? Yeah, that didn't makeany sense to me. I really didn't
understand what they were doing. ButI mean, it's just they've been notorious
for this all year. They justlike they're like, oh, yeah,
we can turn it on whenever wewant. We're better than everybody else.
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Like it's been very very like commontheme, and I'm worried it's just the
coaching. It's just not there forthem. And Joe Massoula is like probably
one of the younger coaches in theentire league, so he doesn't really have
playoff experience, Like has he beenthrough the ringer on this in the in
the NBA, Like, I don'tknow. I'm not really confident in his
(20:41):
abilities, But I mean I amconfident in the abilities of the players that
are on the court and the teamthat's been put together with Brass Stevens and
previously by Danny Ainge, Like thepieces that are in place for this team
are should be proven. In theEast, you can still get the Celtics
minus won the half games we're goinginto the series. I am already invested
(21:02):
heavily. You can get the Celticsminus one and a half games at plus
one forty four? Is that appealingto you? I already have a position
minus one and a half. Ialready have a position for the series to
go and to go six games.So minus one and a half implies that
they're going to win in either sixif you're in games so four one or
(21:26):
four two, not four three.So I wouldn't add. But it is
enticing because you said it's a plusnumber, right, exactly. Just seeing
it as a plus number. That'sthat's it's like where I'm drawn to putting
more on it. I mean,even series betting, even if you just
wanted to say Celtics are gonna winnumber of games, be damned, because
the series when it began, itwas something. It was crazy how much
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the number one up. I thinkit opened it two ninety or ish,
depending on the book you're looking atall the way up to almost minus six
hundred by the time that game camearound. And now with a game one
loss, I'm looking at minus oneninety six right now. I'm tempted.
I'm tempted just so throw a tonof money at it. Yeah. The
(22:10):
play that I'm looking at is thisis an opportunity to find some value in
Eastern Conference futures, Like can thenCeltics take care of the Knicks and the
heat if they've beat the Sixers,I'm pretty sure that they can get the
job done in the Eastern Conference.So I think that there's some value that
has opened up on Eastern Conference futuresand even potentially like Eastern Conference finals MVP,
(22:34):
because that's the thing now to thislast year, since it was introduced
real quick before we break. Isthere a prop bet or anything like that.
I don't know if you've you've reallyhad a chance to dive into it,
But is there a prompt that standsout to you for this game game
two, for this Lakers game No, no, no, no, this
Celtics and and Sixers game two.I would like to see Jalen have a
(23:00):
takeover game, for sure. Ithink that there's definitely going to be him
that stands out. But that lineis probably what already sitting at twenty four
and a half brogged in was somebodythat was high on coming into this series.
I think Hee's going to be spectacular. And but we see a bounce
back game from Derek White. DerekWhite struggled in that game. That's why
(23:21):
he wasn't really in there. AndI think that's the person if you're looking
for a player to buy low on, Derek White is the guy. Twelve
and a half is over under all, right, here's what we're gonna do.
We are going to break our numbertwo is on the way. We're
gonna give shirog a little bit ofa break. You need to vent about
bad bets. You've come to theright place. Tell us about it.
(23:42):
Call six one seven two six sixsix eight sixty eight. That's six one
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Adam Kaufman on w r K OHEJ. Pollock, home run, no
(24:04):
hitter gone, shut out gone.Mariners have tied the Athletics in the eighth
inning. There's hope for me yet, Dan Watkins, hope for you yet,
hope man on second, one down. We'll see what the Mariners can
do. Meanwhile, the third quarteris underway in Oakland and the Lakers and
Warriors are tied, so we'll keepan eye on that. Let's bring in
(24:27):
you just got you, just gottaChris Taylor hit too, by the way,
keep it up, keep it up. Yes, let's get back.
Let's get back. Let's finish theday even at worst. Please, we
need some we need some work outof Stephen Lebron in particular to make that
(24:48):
that potential of reality. Sharrock here, a manager of content over at DraftKings,
rejoins us we will get to thepeople's parlay in a matter of moments.
But Sharrock. We uh we weretalking off the top the show about
what happened earlier tonight between the Heatand the Knicks. No, Jimmy Butler
from Miami game taken. They're avery competitive one by ultimately by the Knicks.
(25:12):
They had to rally late to toto take it at home. They
did. I know you were investedin the Knicks winning that game, so
obviously that was good for you,good for your bank roll as you look
ahead to Game three in Miami againon what Saturday? And that's not until
Saturday? Is that? Is thatpossible? This game is until Saturday.
(25:32):
They're traveling, man, they're traveling. They got the break Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday. How long does it taketo get to South Beach from New
York? Are they going by horseand buggy? Are they walking? Are
they stopping over for a quick tourat Disney going to or landover a little
bit Saturday? Mother of god,Seriously, hey man, it's been it's
(25:53):
been a long first round. Theyhad a tough first round series and they
needed to get him a break.Poor baby, didn't They both win in
five or babies in their five starhotels and their first class accommodations and flights.
Let's give them three days. Ohgod, all right? What are
(26:14):
you thinking about? Though? Whenit comes to betting this now Tide series,
we assume we don't know, butwe assume Jimmy Butler will be back,
especially after a month's rest, tocome back for this one. What
do you think for Game three?It's honestly, the best team in the
first half pretty much has this seasonhas been the Knicks, and the one
(26:37):
of the best teams in the clutchhas been the Miami Heat. So maybe
looking at a double result Nick's Heatto close that game, or I'm not
confident in how the spread or whatto look at because right now what we're
sitting at is minus three and ahalf to Heat our favor and you're guessing
(27:02):
Jimmy Butler will come back for thatgame, but we're not sure, So
it's a wait and see approach.For me. I just think the better
play is to take the kind ofdifferent angle and play it with the better
team in the first half this wholeentire season has been the next so go
with them and then look at howthe second half is going and try to
take a live line on the Heat. So I want to mention this too,
(27:26):
Dan that so Sharraq he's just waytoo polite to correct me on the
air. He shot me a textmessage and he said, this game is
in San Francisco, not Oakland.Oh that's right, they moved. Yeah,
they did move. Uh so itused to be Oakland. So so
I'm like half wrong. I meanI'm completely wrong, but I'm half wrong.
And that they used to be inOakland, I should just say the
Bay Area, but in the Baywell, but I but I bring this
(27:48):
up not only to point out howpolite Sharaq is, but to also say
so he is a native Californian.Hence again the Lakers fandom that he has
h not just like our our guyEJ who's on the bandwagon, but sharg
is actually from California. But butyou know, you've been you've been out
(28:08):
here on the East Coast long enoughto know that like to us, San
Francisco, Oakland, it's all thesame. Yeah, exactly exactly when you
when you look at it, Oaklanddoesn't even count anymore. After everything that
they've been through that that town,it's like Sacramento has woken up now.
The playoff teams, so everyone justgoes. Oh, you got Southern California
(28:29):
teams, you got the Central teamand in Sacramento. Then you go up
a little bit north and get theWarriors. No more crossing that bridge.
Listen, I am I'm rooting for, you know, not not not like
literal problems. But I want moresuffering in Oakland tonight. I want the
Oakland A's to lose. I wantSeattle to to win that game. One
one. May you play that runline or do you play the money line?
(28:52):
Uh? Well both actually uh inin separate bets. So the Seattle
money line is ultimately the one thatI care the most about. But I
do have the run line at minusone and a half as well. So
if I were to be greedy andthey could score two, that would be
great. But it's you know,I only need to be selfish to a
point. All right, let's dothe people's parlay. If anyone missed it,
(29:15):
I explained it. But we willeach offer you a leg me Dan
Sharag We will build the parlay whicheverbook the three of us, you know,
prefer to use. Whatever you wantto wager. There are no rules
to that end other than you arerequired to play. We did this for
the first time last night with AtonShander. It was almost plus eight hundred
(29:36):
and it hit just barely by theskin of our teeth. It hit as
we were coming on the air.Let's see if we can go two for
two. Sharag, you're the guest. I'm sitting here with the book open.
I'm ready to place a bed.You tell me what am I doing?
We got you here? Yeah,yeah, I don't know. I
don't know what happened there. Itwas. It was the pregnant pause to
(29:56):
offer suspense to the people. Yes, so the pause was because I came
up with a great name for thisvet. Oh, here we go.
Okay. So the idea that Icame up with is calling it the Gambler's
Gauntlet. Same because you don't knowhow many legs you're gonna be going through.
You gotta trek through each one,and whoever loses it for us goes
(30:19):
down the gauntlet. I like it. I like it. I like it
so here because I'm superstitious. Here'swhat we'll do. We'll continue calling it
the People's part Lay until it loses, and then when it does, like
tomorrow, we'll go to the Gambler'sGauntlet. We're not losing tomorrow, are
you. We're not gonna We're notgonna wake up with the loss. What
do you got? Well, notwake up? This is you know,
we're gonna experience real time. Whathave you got? I'm gonna go with
(30:45):
the safe play here and go withJason Tatum over four and a half?
Jason Tatum? What over four anda half a fifth? He's gone over
in three consecutive games, He's goneover in five of his last six.
I think after that outburth of scoringthe the adjustment is going to be to
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limit him a little bit, potentiallytrap him, give him an opportunity for
some easy as fifth. Jalen Brownshould look to score more, so I
think four and a half a fifthshould be easy for him to cover.
It's also not very juiced up,so you have to pay too much to
add it to that parlay leg Allright, Dan, what do you have?
I'm going to another one. Ithink it's a gimme give me the
(31:29):
over and the Oilers Nights game tomorrownight, and that's at six and a
half. These teams played four timesin the regular season. The goal totals
where seven, seven, seven andeleven and the events and Oilers have just
heated up. They've scored five ormore in each of their last three games
as they cruise in all the secondround six and a half Oilers Knights.
That was what you said, justto confirm, all right, And I
am going to because I looked inwhat I wanted to add. I was
(31:55):
looking at a player combo and itcouldn't be combined into the parlay, so
it doesn't work. So I amgoing to do all right, let me
make sure I can do this.I'm going back to that Celtics game,
going back to that Sea Sixers game, and off of what we were talking
about earlier in terms of just offenseand production and expectation. In this game,
(32:19):
I'm looking at the second quarter,okay, okay, I'm looking at
the second quarter total, which Ibelieve. Let me see second quarter total
points fifty five and a half.I'm going over, okay, so that
gives me a three leg same gameparlay plus in this particular case of plus
five twenty seven, it's Tatum overfour and a half assists, over fifty
(32:45):
five and a half second quarter totalpoints, and also the Oilers Golden Knights
over six and a half goals.I think that's it work for everybody voice
and I And I'll tell you what, sharag not only am I gonna make
my bet right now, I'm gonnaround robin it. What is even the
(33:13):
point of around robin ing a threelegg or? Man, it feels good
when all three hit? Tell youthat, Yeah, it definitely does.
That's just that's just free free money. As you might say, all right
before we let you go, Becausewe're gonna let you go in a quick
second. Here, just project ahead, my man, because your Lakers are
up by seven points right now midwaythrough the third quarter. They gonna hang
(33:35):
on get the job done tonight.Yeah, I like I said when I
came on, I thought they weregoing to be able to cover that four
and a half bread. I alsohave them on the money line. The
defense has come up. The thingthat was very shocking in that first half
was the Warriors as a franchise.Did you know this is a three point
shooting franchise. That was the mostthree pointers they've hit as a franchise in
(33:57):
that first half. So there wasbound to be some variant back in the
favor of the Lakers. And Ithink they're gonna be able to take care
of business due to that rest ofbattle before you go? Is Steph gonna
wake up and get me to twentyfive points because he's at thirteen right now?
I do not think so. Ithink what's gonna end up happening?
They might just late let the threadgo and prepare for a game two.
(34:19):
Oh, the Warriors better make arun. I can't stand the idea of
that happening. I need that.I need. This is the This is
the bet I care more about thanany other bet. Tonight is Steph Curry
getting to twenty five and Lebron.Lebron needs five more. I just need
him to get to twenty two moreassists from him too. Miss such a
bunny. You just missed such abunny. It like literally missed such an
(34:39):
easy layout. All right, Sharrock, Hey, this was a lot of
fun. I hope you'll come back. Yeah, I'll definitely be back.
It was a great time, allright. Sharrock here, a manager of
content over at DraftKings. We aregoing to step aside one more segment on
the way before we call it anight down. Back in a Gambler with
(35:00):
m Kaufman on six eight w rKO streaming live on the iHeartRadio app,
or tell you're a smart speaker toplay w r KO on iHeartRadio. Why
are the Mariners messing with me rightnow? That's what I want to know,
Dan Watkins. Why are the Marinersmessing with me right now? They're
(35:21):
up two to one to the bottomof the eighth, and of course the
A's have a man on second withone down. It's one of those things.
I mean, like the A's haveto win what once every two weeks,
So I guess, I guess it'sjust the night, not tonight.
They don't come on Seattle. Youscored two in the top of the inning.
Shut the door. Shut the door. A big over three for Bryce
(35:44):
Harper, by the way, andthat Phillis Dodgers game. Anybody who was
hoping for a little something out ofBryce in his first game this season,
just looking at some of the numbershere in this Lakers game, I mean,
thank goodness, close at least youknow the starters. I jumped on
Shrugs minus one and a half ofthe third quarter, So I'm sweating that
out here as we wrap up forthe night. Yeah, I jumped onto
(36:06):
too. I only I didn't throwmuch on it, but so I'd like
to the point where I had alreadyforgotten about it. But some of these
others, I'm I'm keeping a closeeye on. Yep. I love I
love the Derek White play for tomorrow. I pounced on that. Why wasn't
he part of your parlay? Imean, Shroug had already picked that,
is like his pick for tomorrow tobegin with, but he didn't include it
(36:29):
in the parlt. I know,but I also really liked that Edmonton Vegas
over. I'll be going solo onthat as well. For tomorrow the Carolina
Jersey game. You know, Idon't like betting unders, but I would
think that might be the game totake an under on. I took so
A lot of people were on this, and so I followed suit. I
jumped on it. There was aprop bet that, you know, just
(36:51):
a just a straight bet Steph Curryunder forty three and a half points rebounds
assist tonight really, oh yeah,to cool off after that game the other
day, you know what he hasright now? Fourteen wow, three minutes
to go in the third quarter.I mean, I'm I'm I'm rooting for
him to you know, I don'twant him to start to like grab boards
(37:12):
and dish out assists. But butwe need some points here, Steph,
catch fire a little bit. Giveme. He's not even on the court
right now, so playing the entirefourth quarter. Yeah, like that's you
know, it's that's time. There'sthere's plenty of time for him to get
hot. We need it. We'rewilling get into existence. So we have
had a fun couple of nights hereto start off this this show. Obviously,
(37:36):
he had a brand new show atWRKO. You can listen to us
worldwide. The Gambler with Adam KaffmanDan Watkins is here will be you know,
Monday through Thursday, right alongside herewith me. We will occasionally hear
from Brian Antonelli. E J.Pacheco is our producer. Different guests every
single night. Ahon Chander from OddShopper last night. He will be a
I imagine a frequent contributor. Muchthe same for Sharrock Hero from DraftKings,
(37:59):
who was just with us for themajority of the last two hours. Tomorrow,
This guy, I probably won't bugas often to be a he'll be
a semi regular guest. Let's say, uh love him, known him for
years known him for probably a decadeplus at this point. He is He's
just an amazing human and so muchfun to listen to on the air.
(38:22):
And people are going to be excited, Uh, Scott Farrell of Formula of
Farrell on the bench or Scott FarrellFarrel on the bench for anyone that it's
not a good invitation, but it'swhat I've got. Scottie Farrell is going
to join us tomorrow night on theshow for the first hour of the program.
I'm very excited to have Scott on. When I found out, you
(38:45):
know, that we were going tobe doing this show, Dan, he
was one of the first people Ithought of that it was, Yeah,
Scott's got to come on the firstweek. Excellent, love it. I'm
looking forward to it. Big guyin the space, the gambling space,
he's over at think he's at SportsGrid right now and it has been there
for a while. He was,you know, he's he's been on every
(39:07):
radio station I think that exists inthe country. The man did you know
play by play in the NHL backin the day. He's he's well traveled.
It worked with Howard Stern for along time. Man's awesome. Man's
awesome, He's gonna be with ustomorrow night. But yeah, this,
God, these two hours they flyby. They absolutely fly by each and
(39:27):
every night, don't they. Theysure do. It's kind of nuts,
you really do. Lebron's taking aseat two. He's getting a little rest
for what could be. I reallyneed those two assists. I really need.
He's getting worried. I am alittle bit. Yeah, you had
four in the first quarter. Thisis like Jalen Brown's point total all over
again last night, where I thoughtit was cruising and then he just does
nothing for two quarters and then Ireally have to sweat at the end.
(39:51):
I need five points from Davis,five points from Lebron, a dozen points
from Steph. Now it's three.No, sorry that was Russell, not
Lebron. So it's still five pointsfrom Lebron and a dozen points from Steff.
This the Warriors offense is just perplexingtonight in general. Yeah, phrase,
they're leading score with twenty two.I mean, we're not gonna come
(40:13):
well, I shouldn't say that.I was gonna say we're not gonna come
close to to get in a dozenthree pointers between Steph and Clay, but
we could. They're at eight witha quarter plus to go. They just
need stuff to heat up a littlebit. Yeah, yea three, yeah,
right on the nose, sixteen ofthirty nine. Too much Jordan pool
(40:37):
time, none of that, noneof that, get stuff on the floor.
All right, we gotta go,We gotta go. Two hours are
up, but thank you for beingwith us. We will do it again
in twenty two hours thanks to EJ. Pacheco, our producer. Stay tuned
for the podcast available you know acrossthe iHeart network and wherever you find your
podcast, we're gonna be I'll tweetout links at Adam M. Kaufman as
(41:00):
to where you can find everything.Of course, Dan at Dan Watkins Radio
Shron We mentioned him earlier. He'swith all his crypto stuff. You can
get him on Twitter at four RoyalC. And this has been a lot
of fun. Dan, always apleasure. Absolutely looking forward to tomorrow The
Gambler with Adam Kaufman and tomorrow nightScottie Farrell. Scott Farrell will join us.
(41:23):
Gonna be a lot of fun andof course we will come on during
what is likely going to be thefourth quarter of the Celtics sixers, and
I hope it's a romp in favorof Boston. We'll see talk to you
then. You've been listening to TheGambler with Adam Kauffman on six eight w
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