Episode Details

BigHead is in a brand new studio and officially breaking it in. New space, new offices, and our first episode from the new set up. 
 
In this episode, we sit down with Nick Bogdanovich, Head of Trading at Boomer’s Sportsbook. Nick has been in the sports betting industry for decades, working across some of the biggest books in Nevada and now running the trading side of Boomer’s, Nevada's only independent sportsbook currently.

We get into:

• How Nick got started in sports betting and working his way up in Vegas sportsbooks
  
  
• What “setting a line” actually means and how numbers are created
  
  
• If sportsbooks try to balance action on both sides of a bet
  
  
• Why no sportsbook ever has a perfectly balanced book
  
  
• How odds move from opening numbers to game time
  
  
• The difference between sharp money and recreational betting action
  
  
• How props and player markets exploded with modern technology
  
  
• How mobile betting completely changed the industry
  
  
• What makes Boomer’s different than other sportsbooks

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