Be more than glad to pay for a podcast featuring the inestimable mickey crimm asking these same brilliant questions. Let me know when you're heading to Las Vegas. Or Tennessee for that matter. I'll pick up the tab to help you look smart.
And for the record, at no point in the book does Walters write "Expected value" or use the acronym "EV." You can use whatever excuse you want about his use of the word value (as in "greatest relative value," for example), but to say that Walters ever uses the phrase "Expected value" or "EV" in the book is flat-out incorrect.
And honestly, Walters does not present himself as a particularly wonderful handicapper in the book. He's very careful about that.
In fact, even the blurbs to sell the book are careful, as in Michael Roxborough's "Is he the greatest handicapper of all time? Maybe. Is he the greatest bettor of all time? Unquestionably."
There are few references in the book to Walters' himself actually handicapping anything.
You should have made the trip for the book club meeting. Anyone interested in my formal opening remarks?
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