Kevin Schini & Shinehead
GAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY - The true crime story of "Shinehead," the king of college gambling
WELCOME TO GAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY, The hilariously dark, true-crime story of "Shinehead," the college student who inadvertently became a sports bookie who franchised his business model to numerous major universities and made millions before graduating, all while staying one step ahead of the university and the police… but not the mob. It was the late 1980s when Shinehead was a freshman at a major state university in the south. He was a clean-cut kid from a straight-laced family who was dropped into the heart of SEC country, where sports are king and nothing else matters. His background in s...
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Episodes
THE ORGANIZED SIDE OF CRIME 05.02.2026 44:21
Shinehead has been called the Over-Undertaker, and rightfully so, since he wasn’t just a bookie. He was an entrepreneur, an undertaker, in every sense of the word. He saw patterns in the way his piers bet, but he also paid attention to how to keep his clientele betting. He used VIP parties with entertainment and drinks as incentives to keep his clientele betting. But those parties also are a great...
UNLIKE THE PROFESSOR, THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS 30.01.2026 45:42
With operations as large as they were at this point, it was becoming almost impossible for Shinehead to stay out of the spotlight. Wall to wall cash was constantly collecting in Shinehead’s fraternity house room. And when an all-out brawl between other fraternity houses trying to get in to one of Shinehead's VIP parties lead to a call into the office of the dean of Greek life, Shinehead knew that...
COLLECTIONS, RISKY BUSINESS PARTNERS 22.01.2026 29:17
At this part in our story, the number of gamblers betting with Shinehead is growing week by week. It’s far more than Shinehead can handle himself. So in order to handle the other sides of the business, Shinehead had to find partners. One would be the face of the operation, responsible for recruiting new bettors, or finding bookies to turn into runners. The other would be the muscle- usually guys w...
EXPANSION TO TAKING BETS AROUND CAMPUS & TOWN, BAPTISM UNDER FIRE OF THE BOOKIE BIZ 14.01.2026 24:07
We get into Shinehead’s expansion from betting internally with frat brothers to his lightbulb moment of discovering betting patterns with college kids, learning how to exploit them to make as much money as possible.
FRESHMAN YEAR, JOINING A FRATERNITY, INTRO TO BEING THE HOUSE BOOKIE 08.01.2026 15:02
We discuss Shinehead’s start in the book making business including his initiation into his fraternity, meeting the two frat brothers who were taking bets for the house, and their discovery that Shinehead was the perfect candidate to run the house books due to his love and knowledge of sports and his savant-like math skills. Shinehead speaks to being put to work collecting from brothers who were la...
INTRO, BACKSTORY, WHO IS “SHINEHEAD” 08.01.2026 20:15
We learn who math and athletic phenom “Shinehead” is, including his background and upbringing in south Florida, his love of sports, card games, gambling, and making money, all which unknowingly shaped him into the perfect candidate to become his fraternity house’s bookie and eventual kingpin who controlled sports betting on multiple college campuses in the southeast in the early 1990s.
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