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Do sports betting pro Spanky and co-owner of BetStamp, Rob Pizzola really despise each other?
On Sunday, Spanky posted a job offering at his betting office, while taking a not-so-subtle jab at Pizzola's place of work.
If any @TheHammerHQ or @betstamp employees are sick of getting paid in Canadien Rubles by @robpizzola, hit us up jobs@spankodds.com
— spanky (@spanky) February 2, 2025
P.S. Our office is always stocked with Fresh Squeezed Florida Orange Juice.
"If any @TheHammerHQ or @betstamp employees are sick of getting paid in Canadien Rubles by @robpizzola, hit us up jobs@spankodds.com.
"P.S. Our office is always stocked with Fresh Squeezed Florida Orange Juice."
Pizzola was quick to respond.
"Job perks include sitting at a desk for 12 hours straight with access to a piss jug."
The suggestion being that Spanky works his employees to death.
We assume it's all in jest as Pizzola has appeared at Spanky's Bet Bash events in the past. The two appear to be friends.
"A personal story I never told before which made me a lifetime @robpizzolafan. We’re at Sloan many years back. We have a great dinner then all of a sudden @callcustservice goes bonkers and starts pushing me to shoot scotch. Like the party idiot I am, I happily oblige. I need to catch a flight the next day so I don’t miss a daddy daughter dance with my 2 girls. It’s like 2am and I’m in lala land. My man Rob, who I just met a few days prior, helps get my stumbling ass back to my room. I wound up missing the flight anyway but I caught a train and still made it to the dance."
Most notably, Pizzola came after one Darren Rovell and his penchant for promoting parlay betting while both were speaking on a panel.
Pizzola tells Rovell: “You’re creating a false allure that people can win. You’re sending sheep to the slaughterhouse.”
Rovell: “Well what do you want me to talk about then."
Pizzola then went on to call Rovell's website The Action Sports Network out.
“I would never send someone to the Action Network for betting advice. Your company is making things worse. You have an obligation not to put things out there that are misleading."
"A large majority of people are not looking at anything," Rovell responded. "They are blindly betting”.
Rovell added: "At least we are putting up data."
Pizzola: “You’re passing off people as having expertise who don’t.”
According to Rufus, the two mostly engaged in a shouting match from that point forward.
Then it came down to this:
Rovell: “You’re acting like we’re as bad as the touts of the 80s”
Pizzola: “In a way you are”.
OUCH!
Rovell then questioned why Pizzola was coming after him so hard and not other outlets like CBS. He also called out Pizzola’s reputation and one can sense this was about to get really ugly as pro bettor and fellow panelist Steve Fezzik felt compelled to defend Pizzola.
Pizzola: "You have influencers promoting things that are very problematic, as gambling is addictive and it can have really dark consequences."
Pizzola went on to begin discussing "successful bettors" when Rovell interrupted.
"Do you have their records? How do you know they’re good? It’s just if people work at the action network they’re not winners right?"
Rufus noted that the entire panel did agree with Rovell's point.
Rovell's tendency to block folks on Twitter came up. He claimed he blocked only a few people.
Anyway, Spanky is hiring and we could not agree more with one of his followers, where better to relocate than luxurious Central New Jersey.
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