#BettingPeople

#BettingPeople: Professional poker player Marty Smyth was the highest European earner in 2007, winning top tournaments, then extended into sports and horse racing betting. This is his first interview in 20 years.

David Lovell, born into a respected and innovative bookmaking family, started life learning the odds with his father John, and started one of Wales’ first in-running suites, where fortunes were made before he became a full-time professional punter with runners countrywide until founding DragonBet with his brother James. Reticent to talk publicly for years, finally we have David Lovell in the #BettingPeople chair, speaking to Simon Nott.

Professional punter, friend of the stars and avid Chelsea fan, ‘Tracksuit’ Dave Standbridge is a much-loved character on and off the racecourses of the UK. In this four-part interview, he talks about his life battling the bookies and, more recently, a much deadlier foe. Dave has asked that we share a link to the charity that helps people with MPN (myeloproliferative neoplasms). You can find out more and donate by clicking the link below: MPN Voice – Donate.

#BettingPeople: Winning over 1,600 points in three years on golf and 200 a year backing horses over the last four years for his followers has made Ginger Joe become a thorn in bookmakers’ sides. In this four-part interview, he tells Simon Nott how he does it.

Rob Furber – professional reality TV punter, founder of TV betting analysis website entertainmentodds.com and author of ‘The Gambler’, speaks to Simon Nott at our flagship betting shop in Mayfair!

Ryan Conneely is the face thousands recognise as the punter striving to beat the bookmakers on the Barking Mad Betting channel. In this interview, he tells Simon Nott about his love of greyhound racing, learning the hard way and how he could be very rich indeed.

Jason Timms and his father made a living sticking on for sharp punters for decades, betting on and off course, using accounts and betting shops. These days, those activities are much harder to do, so Jason has decided to come out of the woodwork to tell the story of what was one of the best-connected operations in racing to Simon Nott.

Simon Nott met with Races Now tipster, on-course presence and content creator Stephen Darbyshire to discuss his tipping, what SD offers, and his visits to racecourse betting rings.

Ahead of the start of this year’s Star Sports Greyhound Derby, Simon Nott sat down with the Managing Director of Greyhound Racing UK, Mike Davis.

David, the son of a bookmaker, has been in the game all of his life and worked through the many changes in the betting ring over the last 30 years. In this interview, he talks about a life in the betting industry.

#BettingPeople: Recorded in WJ Arment & Son’s traditional pie and mash shop, Walworth, son of an illegal street bookmaker and brother of betting ring legend Johnny Lights, author and journalist Alan Hurndall’s new book, ‘The Kid From The Kiosk,’ tells the story of his upbringing in South East London, some of which he relates in this interview with Simon Nott.

Maurice ‘Mo’ Charge – bookmaker, punter and sportsman rose from council estate boy to a top bookmaker and feared punter – here’s his story as told to Simon Nott.

#BettingPeople: David Hipkin is a betting industry expert with a wide range of experience looking for edges. He is the co-founder of SharpBetting.co.uk, a site that was launched in 2024 with a focus on horse racing, football and boxing.

#BettingPeople: Horseracing legend Bob Champion is world famous for racing Aldiniti to win the Grand National in 1981 and since then he has raised £16,000,000 and rising for cancer charities. In this interview with Simon Nott he talks about before, during and after his famous victory.

#BettingPeople: PATRICK VEITCH: Professional punter and thoroughbred investor Patrick Veitch is revisited by Simon Nott to find out what’s been happening in his world since they last talked two years ago.

#BettingPeople: Peter Barron was editor of the Northern Echo for 17 years and in that time championed horseracing and other sports coverage in the paper. His career started as racing correspondent of the Scunthorpe Telegraph. In his time at the paper, he was awarded an MBE. He’s now a freelance publicist and is heavily involved with Redcar racecourse as well as charity work.

#BettingPeople: Based in Portugal, Jose Ribeiro enables and advises betting syndicates across the globe, he’s also a gifted chess player and continues to be at the highest level. In this four-part interview, Jose talks about his beginnings, the workings of betting syndicates and the strategies that some of them use.

#BettingPeople: After the success of his interview, Gambler, Coder & SharpBetting.co.uk Co-Founder Chris Fawcett is back to answer your questions, covering a range of topics about the gambling world!

#BettingPeople: Million-selling author Felix Francis started his writing career with a physics paper in 1986 while following his first career in academia. He is the son of best-selling author and ex-jockey Dick Francis ultimately helping with and eventually continuing the family ‘Dick Francis’ series of books, however, not before learning to fly a plane, becoming a sharp-shooter, teacher and successful businessman in his own right. Felix talked to Simon Nott as his latest book ‘Syndicate’ was launched.

#BettingPeople: Mark Adcock is one of the UK’s top pigeon fanciers who has followed in his father and grandfather’s footsteps training out of their loft in Croydon. In this interview Mark explains the ‘nomination’ system of betting, how the top birds can sell for £1,000,000, how the game works, discusses the side bets stuck on races, breeding, getting involved and more.