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The book was cited as detailing Billy Walters' gambling career and exposing Phil Mickelson's massive betting history, including alleged losses of around $100million.
According to a book that's coming out, Billy Walters is the author and spent some time in jail. There was insider trading involved in this and a very, very famous gambler. He says citing betting recor...
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The book was cited as detailing Billy Walters' gambling career and exposing Phil Mickelson's massive betting history, including alleged losses of around $100million.
According to a book that's coming out, Billy Walters is the author and spent some time in jail. There was insider trading involved in this and a very, very famous gambler. He says citing betting records with two very reliable sources. Phil Mickelson made 858 bets of $220,000 and 1,115 bets of $110,000 from 2020 to 2014. He estimates that Mickelson endured losses of approximately $100 million while betting more than $1billion over three decades.
The book is called Gambler's Secrets of a Life of Risk, and Billy Walters is a wellknown gambler, very successful gambler, maybe the most successful American bettor ever.
In 2015, court documents in a money laundering case revealed that nearly $3million was transferred from Mickelson to an intermediary of, quote, an illegal gambling operation. In 2021, the Detroit News revealed Mickelson had been linked in court documents to an alleged mob bookie in a 2007 trial.
He said that in a statement saying that he would never undermine the integrity of the game. So there's obviously bad blood between these two. The author, Billy Walters, went to prison, and he thinks Phil could have saved him from going to prison by telling the truth.