The BashCast

Agenda: 00:00 – Intro 02:33 – The cold water swimming story 17:20 – Suspended from X – the real reason and moving forward 36:12 – World Cup simulator: How we found value and the challenges of adding form 59:54 – 2026 review – Horse racing, golf and overall site performance 1:10:51 – UX updates on Bookiebashing 1:20:31 – Member story: Nearly getting stiffed by Ladbrokes on a horse bet 1:22:31 – New...

Agenda: We answer questions from the last episode A year in review for 2025. How did we do on golf, on horse racing, DDHH and coupons. What are my top tips and resolutions for 2025? PDC Darts update – we are one week in to the world championships, a look at what I’ve been betting on and some inplay tournament angles A well known Sports Betting Professional announced that the Wincast odds are impos...

The BashCast:: Late and Live Budget Special Agenda: Previous weeks questions Budget 2026 – Thoughts from a winning punter perspective PDC Darts World Championships 2026 Why we do Youtube Videos - Golf doubles, trebles, dog walks and editing difficulties. Polymarket – Predictions markets have hit America, but are they the American Dream? The return of a segment that was an old favourite - Why You’r...

Is this Podcast perfect? No, its beautifully imperfect. I'm trying to host, audio engineer, present and produce all live on camera. It's a learning experience, bear with me through the mistakes! Agenda: Scotland make it to the World Cup Finals The EV of EVs – Tom get scammed by a car salesman Enhancements coming up: Player xG, Player stats and a new horse racing tool The state of golf markets this...

Agenda: Last weeks questions Anthony Kaminskas is trending above PRINCE ANDREW. Let’s look at the story from a different perspective NFL – as we hit the middle of the season of NFL we take a look at edges and speak to BBC and Guardian journalist Ryan Baldi about whats going on with Field Goals Legal Hour - When should you take a bookmaker to court, and when should you suck it up? Golf doubles – SB...

Agenda:   1. The fortnight recap: Haaland, another decent Lucky 15 and the Porguese Villamoura Algarve Open featuring … Me 2. Shops: At what point do profitable shop bettors reject a bet due to cuts? 3. Last Episodes Questions on arbitration, AI and statistical approaches 4. Blogger and Mooshtips – the gambling social media world somehow sinks to new depths 5. We have Peter Webb from GeeksToy on f...

Agenda: We go through the questions from the first BashCast late and live. Feel free to ask them this time around, but I cannot promise I’m reading the youtube comments. An update from Professor Anthony Kaminskas AKBets golf double update from the BMW PGA Championship and the Procore Championsp After Ladbrokes hit the news for paying out 100,000 euros on a 300,000 horse double, they’ve now impleme...

Agenda: This is the audio from the YouTube video - The BashCast:: Late and Live.  Who’s got the bag?  Fred is doubling and tripling some match odds this weekend – we dive into the mathematics and the EV. Football coupons – profits from the weekend from football coupons, the first edge we had at BB Storytime – have you ever Outplayed anyone? Have you ever been Outplayed yourself? Let’s have a littl...

Agenda: [00:02:09] - Tom goes through his summer breaks, the trials, the tribulations, the drownings and the lost vehicles [00:34:23] -Horse racing goes through a losing spell during August so we deep dive into how bad it was in relative terms [00:49:29] - Tom hits a £20k Lucky 15 just before the summer and so we discuss that bet, the last years horse system bets and some strategies for longevity...

Agenda: [00:01:57] - Tom walks a couple of miles in the freezing cold before realising he’s forgotten his shoes [00:16:20] - Europa edges on FCSB vs Man United, goals across the games and a review of PSV vs Liverpool [00:35:03] - Tom discusses a long losing run to start 2025 [00:41:36] - A review of the market performance for goals, corners,player cards and shots on target [00:52:49] - And some va...

Agenda: [00:02:05] - Tom takes his dog for a walk and gets in a confrontation with a lady [00:20:15] - Changing times at bookiebashing [00:27:06] - A champions league mistake with Young Boys v Atalanta that lands and a review of the First Goalscorer calculation [00:43:07] - A first goal scorer edge in Crvena Zvedvedaveda [00:47:16] - The Circasports Survivor contest in Nevaga #bettingat100.1andabo...

[00:02:00] - Tom goes to see Moby and calls for an end to the scam that is discretionary services charges at restaurants [00:22:50] - Explaining the concept of normalisation in data organisation and how it can be applied to betting for an edge [00:39:34] - A deep dive into the inter-relationships between Team Most Shots on Target and Team to Win and whether there is a decent bet on Stoke vs Hull t...

Agenda: [00:02:00] - Look out, because Tom is back from the summer break and has switched on the projector to recount tales of surfing, zombies and mushroom pizza [00:20:56] - We look further back to the SmartBash 2024 and review the positives, the negatives and a request for a couple to get in touch [00:37:12] - The Gambling Reform Summit has taken place in Westminster this September, has any app...

Agenda: [00:02:02] - Tom finds out Environmental Services are after him [00:08:05] - 2024 Smart Betting Club Awards - The BashCast is back [00:22:52] - More bad behaviour on Social Media - Fanwave Digital, Badmanbetting, Racing Blogger and Pro Sports Advice [00:56:08] - Is the Gambling Commission investigation into insider betting on the election a waste of time? #bettingat100.1andabove Want to se...

Agenda: [00:01:54] - We discuss the long-short paradox of time and how it applies to betting [00:10:50] - Tom figures out he can still bet on Eurovision after he knows the result, but should he? [00:20:13] - An exchange edge on the 8 place market in golf that everyone can play in [00:33:18] - The good and the bad from the goalscorer betting worlds as Tom gets Lucky [00:46:29] - And we finish with...

Agenda: [00:02:30] Tom goes to Disneyland, finds it has the lowest ROI of anything in the world [00:15:48] My Gambling history – where I started ,how I met some syndicates, why Duncan started bookiebashing in my kitchen and whether we can speak from any position of authority [00:46:14] SmartBash 2024 – tickets are selling fast, we have some big names that will be announced soon, big panels and big...

Agenda: [00:01:55] - Toms answers a question from a Pinnacle Odds Compiler over M25 roadworks [00:15:36] - Jesse May and Ronan join us for a sneaky peak chat about Smart Bash 2024 (in association with Matchbook) this summer – and this time, everyone is invited to the party [00:30:32] - A profit loss review for Toms gambling in shops and on exchanges in February and March [00:49:58] - Cheltenham Fe...

Agenda: [00:01:40] - Tom quits drinking only to be disappointed in the entire human race [00:10:10] - Cheltenham festival is round the corner - we look at tipsters, who you can trust and who you cannot trust [00:35:27] - A shift in liquiidty at the exchanges as Matchbook, Betdaq and Smarkets catch ground on Betfair [00:48:54] - Abbie MacGregor and Andrew Woodman off of the Gamblers Consumer Forum...

Agenda: [00:01:40] - Tom recounts the time when he caused the meltdown of the cloakroom ticketing system at the Zanzibar nightclub in 1996. [00:15:10] - We revisit @AndryRobsonTips after the last BashCast and have more information about the origins of these tweets. [00:41:00] - We break down some of the mathematics of the enhanced specials at betdaq to show how to find value with or without a book...

Agenda:   [00:01:55] - Toms Xmas Dinner ends up on the kitchen floor [00:09:03] - An in depth review of the mathematics and morals of @AndyRobsonTips [00:51:27] - Pricing Luke Littler in the PDC World Championships [01:12:47] - Exchange edges and a partnership with Betdaq [01:35:28] - A looks at my first shop bets of the year and has anything changed in the models for 2024? [01:54:00] - Tales of D...

Agenda: We are joined by Jon Roberts from Predictology. In this episode we discuss I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, skillsets for beating the markets, the logistics of reliable odds collection, modelling football, historical trending, pre-match vs inplay edges and the all important 2023 BashCast Xmas Quiz. https://www.predictology.co/ https://www.youtube.com/@predictology https://www.bookiebash...

Agenda:   [00:01:47] - Toms recounts a ten pin bowling evening that ends with putting someone in hospital [00:12:43] - Horse racing ups and downs through the year and optimising horses by odds band [00:28:49] - Newcastle play Dortmund in the Champions League and we look at edges in the Players xG [00:44:50] - A consultation on the bookiebashing bet tracker and whether it does more harm than good [...

Agenda: [00:01:59] - Tom donates some money from a Mudryk win and recounts a story when he nearly caused a racial riot [00:13:08] - A Ryder Cup summary, a few decent edges and angles and a missed opportunity [00:34:57] - Betfred have a new Hotshots coupon in shops, how to calculate the value in a team to have the most goals on a Champions League evening [00:52:10] - New Bookiebashing member Hussai...

Agenda: [00:01:46] - Tom gets into trouble with an exotic bird over the summer holidays [00:21:00] - The Rugby World Cup – modelling points with a negative binomial probability, Fijian value + the xPlayerTries model [00:39:19] - Thrill Seeker. Disrupter. Charlatan - a copycat challenges what others think is possible by copying our horse racing tracker. We explain why it doesn’t have much chance [0...

Agenda:   [00:01:58] - Tom recaps the Smart-Bash event, the positives, the negatives, the-EV blackjack and the Jaeger Bombs that cost £1500 [00:33:04] - The Womens World Cup is underway – what edges are we looking at and given the goals in 2019 will it be overs and overs and overs and overs? [00:49:17] -We have an email segment – some praise, some trolls, feedback from the BTC segment in the last...