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Former stripper riffs on sports gambling and golden gloves in steamy new memoir
Lay the Favorite is Beth Raymer’s new book about her years in the high-stakes gambling world of sports betting. In a period when gamblers no longer used local bookies and unregulated offshore sports booking exploded, Beth rose from an assistant in a Las Vegas betting office to become a trusted expert, seasoned enough to open an offshore booking office in the Caribbean. Raymer became one of the few women excelling in the high-anxiety world of off-shore sports gambling. How much did logic contribute to her success, and how much was simply getting lucky?
Lay the Favorite is Beth Raymer’s new book about her years in the high-stakes gambling world of sports betting. In a period when gamblers no longer used local bookies and unregulated offshore sports booking exploded, Beth rose from an assistant in a Las Vegas betting office to become a trusted expert, seasoned enough to open an offshore booking office in the Caribbean. Raymer became one of the few women excelling in the high-anxiety world of off-shore sports gambling. How much did logic contribute to her success, and how much was simply getting lucky?
Guest:
Beth Raymer, author of Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling (Random House)