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Sep 27, 2026
Episode 60: The State Of Play In Gaming With Attorney Peter Hammon
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4:43Peter HammonGUEST
Yeah, it is funny that that was one of my first introductions to this industry was essentially a legal loophole workaround, which does kind of bring us back to 2026 in a way.
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5:00Peter HammonGUEST
But yeah, so for those of you who don't know me all that well, my background is as an attorney, but I got my start actually working for a company called Smarkets out of the UK, which Smarkets was very, very early to the betting exchange concept.
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5:17Peter HammonGUEST
They were an early competitor to Betfair in the UK market.
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5:21Peter HammonGUEST
And founder was an American guy, Jason Trost.
Pay Differently with Paul Reiman
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51:04JamesHOST
But then since then, other companies do this.
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51:06JamesHOST
Smarkets in the UK did it famously and then undid it because they found it was taking up too much time, which is obviously telling.
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51:13JamesHOST
But the idea is that Once you're transparent with your finances, once you're transparent with your pay, once everybody's ideally an owner at the same time, then they are the best place people to decide among themselves what their pay should be transparently.
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51:29JamesHOST
Have you seen any of that? Have you done any of that? What's your experience with this?