Sam Priestley
Hello and welcome! I am a professional gambler and entrepreneur. My current work is in arbitrage and generating yield on Ethereum.
On this site you will find how-to guides, opinion pieces and my in-depth business journals.
Latest Posts:
Serendipity – How To Be In The Right Place At The Right Time
Serendipity is a concept I think about a lot and massively impacts how I do business and how I live my life. Wikipedia describes it as “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way". Or in other words: being in the right place at the...
Become A Professional Gambler: The Seven Ways To Make Money Gambling
I have always been fascinated by beating the casino at their own game and in 2009 with the financial crisis in full swing that fascination became an obsession. But after lots of trial and error, experimenting and false starts I finally was able to turn that obsession...
My Monthly Report – April 2019
Another month, another report. And a late report at that. That's because I've had the last 3 weeks off work. I go through phases and have been doing some questioning about why I do any of this. I realised that I don't think I have ever taken any extended time off work...
My Monthly Report – March 2019
What a month! What can I say! We launched our new flavoured gin. The podcast took off and started ranking in the charts. And I turned 30. March has been my favourite month in a long time. It all came together and a lot of the stuff I've been complaining about recently...
Value Betting – How To Make Money When The Bookies Get It Wrong
The odds you get at a bookmaker represent the chance of your bet winning. And sometimes, just sometimes, the bookies get it wrong allowing smart punters to get great value. This is the essence of value betting. Value betting was the final and most profitable step of...
My Monthly Report – February 2019
Hello and welcome back to another monthly report. Last month I complained that I spent too much times playing video games and not enough working. Well I ended up doing almost exactly the same number of hours of work this month - 44% of my target of my target of 165....
How To Start A Supper Club In Your Home
Every couple of weeks for the last year, we have welcomed paying guests into our home. Emma, my wife, cooks us a delicious three-course meal. And we all sit around a table together, eating, drinking and chatting. What I have just described is a business known as a...
My Monthly Report – January 2019
Hello and welcome back to another monthly report. I hope you have had a good January! Fully refreshed and motivated after Christmas. Here at Priestley Towers it started well. I hit the ground running with my New Year Resolutions. Excited and determined to be a...
Oddsmonkey Review 2019 – Matched Betting Software Compared
In this Oddsmonkey review, I will take a look at how useful Oddsmonkey is to a matched better. Ask if it's worth the money, and compare it to its competition. Oddsmonkey has always been a big name in the matched betting community. It is almost 10 years old I have been...
My 2018 Yearly Report & New Year Resolutions
Another year has shot by and I've been spending my Christmas doing what I do best - sitting around thinking. Thinking back on how the year has gone. The mistakes I've made, the opportunities I've grabbed. And thinking about the future. I left 2017 very excited. The...
Creating and Scaling a T-Shirt Printing Business
Normally I write about successful businesses we have created. Well, today is slightly different. Today I’m writing about a business we failed to even start. This following post is from November 2015 and I am reposting it as it is still very relevant and was the...
My Monthly Report – November 2018
Welcome back to November's monthly report. A lot happened in November both in work and general life. I went on holiday, sold a bunch of gin and released seven podcast episodes. Less fun was that we hit stock issues everywhere, which a month before Christmas is a...
