The third annual Bet Bash is a pro sports betting networking conference featuring expert panel discussions, a speed networking event, a scavenger hunt, nightly open bars and more. Kyrollos has partnered with Circa this week for two of his brainchildren: Bet Bash and the Sports Gambling Hall of Fame. “If I could find that guy today, I would honestly buy him a house.
“I started betting sports on the side and wound up making more money than I was at my regular job, so I took the plunge in 2003 and I’ve been betting sports full time ever since,” he said. Why don’t I try to create something for myself?”Īfter three years on Wall Street, Kyrollos, 45, left the world of high finance for the world of high-stakes gambling, and he hasn’t looked back. I was a young kid, and that’s when it hit me. I have to go report to this company, where I’m just a number. “I looked at him and heard what he was saying, and it just resonated with me. Go report to your master and keep running the rat race,’” Kyrollos said. Kyrollos said he was standing on an escalator while a homeless man yelled at the commuters passing by. The New Jersey native was in a Manhattan subway station on his way to work at Deutsche Bank one morning when he had a life-changing epiphany.
(Gadoon Kyrollos)īefore he became a prominent professional sports bettor, Gadoon “Spanky” Kyrollos worked on Wall Street. Gadoon “Spanky” Kyrollos is the founder of Bet Bash and the Sports Gambling Hall of Fame.
