The other main characters included a pro sports bettor, Bill “Krack” Krackomberger; an amateur, Todd Wishnev; and a handicapper/proxy/TV personality, Kelly “Kelly In Vegas” Stewart.

Both are probably worth acknowledging. ‘Black Monday’ Review: Regina Hall Makes Showtime’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Wannabe Worth the Risk, How Showtime Made a Secret Documentary About the New York Times’ Big Story on Trump’s Tax Evasion. Action chronicles the lives of professional gamblers, bookies and oddsmakers throughout the 2018 NFL season following the Supreme Court decision to lift a ban on sports betting. “The world of sports gambling has fascinated Hollywood for decades, but never before has a documentary captured the essence of the industry at such a pivotal period,” said Stephen Espinoza, President, Sports and Event Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. “Through the lens of industry professionals and real-life gamblers within every virtual layer of the business – both legal and illegal – Action delivers a one-of-a-kind look as sports gambling enters a brave new world.”, “The chorus of human stories we present in Action will resonate far beyond the world of sports and gambling,” adds director Luke Korem. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. None of them generated as much reaction as Oancea, but each had an interesting story to tell — particularly Wishnev, who was an accidental discovery of the Action crew on a day of filming at the South Point but was such an open book that he became the emotional center of the show.

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Some casual bettors go so far as to describe the need to erase a day of unsuccessful wagers as akin to chasing a fix. Cutting from a sparse Nevada apartment to a luxury penthouse says just as much about the respective approaches of either of the two men being profiled as anything they can say themselves. Lo, Newcomer Iman Vellani To Star As Marvel Studios’ First Onscreen Muslim Hero In ‘Ms.

I CANNOT WAIT TO DROP THIS CONTENT pic.twitter.com/B09ZmLrlt7, — Dave Oancea (@itsvegasdave) April 15, 2019.

Please be sure to visit the operator’s website(s) to review their terms & conditions. This Article is related to: Television and tagged Action, Showtime, TV Reviews. Oancea was just one of several people featured prominently on the show. The character-driven narrative delivers intimate access to a diverse cross-section of authentic and sometimes garrulous subjects within the sports gaming community, documenting the effects of legalization through their prisms.

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The series will culminate with the biggest gambling day of the year, Super Bowl Sunday. It explores the legalization of sports gambling while chronicling the lives of some of those involved. “Action” premieres Sunday, March 24 on Showtime. But if you stuck around past those 30 seconds and watched for four hours, you got to see the tables turn on “Vegas Dave.” In the premiere episode, he barks about his own greatness, but the producers balance it with others in the industry questioning his claims.

Action shows that in sports betting there are fat guys and skinny guys, old guys and young guys, bet-spewing “degens” and hard-working math whizzes, people who sweat every play and people who get manicures during the games. ), “Action” still gives an effective overview of the human cost of this massive multibillion dollar industry. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL). Action also features Seattle Seahawks quarterback and Super Bowl champion Russell Wilson, legendary bookmaker Jimmy Vaccaro, sports broadcasting icon Brent Musburger and comedian Cousin Sal.

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Neither a proselytizing exercise for any one sports league or a harbinger of doom for the industry overall, “Action” is more of an accounting of where things stand at the precipice of a major change.

It chronicles professional gamblers, bookies, oddsmakers and … Gamblers are f—in’ crazy in the head.”. Dave Oancea, perhaps the most reviled practitioner of one of sports betting’s most detested sub-industries — selling your picks in conjunction with selling yourself as a gambling wizard — was front and center in the trailer.

Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. But that risk/reward divide means so much more when someone’s entire livelihood can be on the line.

Showtime Sports Documentary Films is ready for you to take a gamble on their forthcoming four-part docuseries Action. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. a casino at the north end of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, Caesars Entertainment To Acquire Bookmaker William Hill In £2.9 Billion Deal, Horse Racing Safety Bill ‘Rounding The Final Turn’ Toward Becoming Law, Nevada Sportsbooks Handle $474 Million In August, Setting New State Record For Month, Wide World Of Gambling: Largest NFL Bet Of Season, Mattress Mack Returns, Scheinberg Sentence, Mob-Like Tactics From Vegas Casino, The Finals Countdown: LeBron James Favored To Win Fourth NBA Title And NBA Finals MVP. This will not do for the image of sports bettors what ESPN’s early coverage of the World Series of Poker did for the image of poker players, because Action is not that level of TV phenomenon. There’s an acknowledgment that violence is a real threat that some of these people risk. Comments are off, by Marc Berman

Professional behavioral psychologists explain how the elation that can come with seeing a giant parlay pay off originates in the same centers in the brain that light up with any other form of pleasurable activity. Read More: How Showtime Made a Secret Documentary About the New York Times’ Big Story on Trump’s Tax Evasion. Whether it’s examples like Stewart’s or legendary announcer Brent Musburger — who after years of winking nods to gambling lines during football games has now become a full-on gambling commentator — betting has now become another gamified commodity amped by a new generation of Snapchat missives and live webcasts.

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During the third episode of Showtime’s four-part sports betting documentary series Action, VSiN’s Gill Alexander tells the camera, “Gamblers are not rational.Gamblers are f—in’ crazy in the head.” Depending on a viewer’s perspective, those two sentences can either sum up what they love or what they hate about gambling.
Action shows us how sports betting affects the bettors and their loves ones, and how even a football game as ugly as this year’s Patriots-Rams Super Bowl can seem entertaining if you watch it through the eyes of people with skin in the game. ‘Action’ Review: Showtime Series Helps Identify the Human Gamble of Sports Betting. On the fourth episode, Oancea’s biographer, Edward Follis, compared him to Donald Trump.

But on a smaller scale, it can open eyes in the same way.

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The series will culminate with the biggest gambling day of the year, Super Bowl Sunday. The educated gambling community on social media, meanwhile, almost unanimously leaned right out: Vegas Dave has managed to do something I never thought possible — unite Gambling Twitter. The central figures in the docuseries include some of the most respected experts in the industry such as reputed professional gambler Bill Krackomberger, sports handicapper Kelly Stewart and betting consultant Dave “Vegas Dave” Oancea. © 2020 Showtime Networks Inc. and Showtime Digital Inc. SHOWTIME is a registered trademark of Showtime Networks Inc., a ViacomCBS Company.