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#BettingPeople. Characters from the world of betting. Brought to by starsports.bet. For our full library of video interviews visit https://www.starsportsbet.co.uk/betting-people/
#BettingPeople. Characters from the world of betting. Brought to by starsports.bet. For our full library of video interviews visit https://www.starsportsbet.co.uk/betting-people/
Episodes

Thursday Feb 05, 2026
Marty Smyth #BettingPeople podcast
Thursday Feb 05, 2026
Thursday Feb 05, 2026
#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.

Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Tracksuit Dave #BettingPeople podcast
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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:

Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
David Lovell #BettingPeople podcast
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
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.

Monday Oct 27, 2025
Ginger Joe #BettingPeople podcast
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
#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.

Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Rob Furber #BettingPeople podcast
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
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!

Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Ryan Conneely #BettingPeople podcast
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
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.

Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Jason Timms #BettingPeople podcast
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
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.

Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Stephen Darbyshire #BettingPeople podcast
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
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.

Friday May 09, 2025
Mike Davis #BettingPeople podcast
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
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.

Friday May 02, 2025
Dave 'Swampy' Clarke #BettingPeople podcast
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
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.
