Gonzalo García-Pelayo's winning racehorse is named Going Wrong, and bets are 12 to 1 just before the race at the 9️⃣ tracks in Cheltenham, UK. The 450 euros that he has put down on the jockey in the green-striped shirt is 9️⃣ part of a "private investment fund" which relies on tipsters and earns him a 30-percent annual return. Just then, his 9️⃣ cellphone vibrates: it's a text from another tipster. In the match between Fernando Verdasco and Juan Martín del Potro, he 9️⃣ should bet against the Argentinean tennis player winning more than four games against the Spaniard. García-Pelayo then explains that he 9️⃣ is in the process of creating a new formula for tennis bets based on the theory that if the pre-match 9️⃣ favorite favorite loses the first set, he or she will win the second. If his studies prove conclusive, he will 9️⃣ program it on his computer, under "Favorite loses first set" so it automatically launches.
The race starts at Cheltenham. García-Pelayo leans 9️⃣ back on his office chair, watching the screen with the remote in his hand. It's mid-afternoon on a Tuesday in 9️⃣ March, and the gambler is dressed in cords and checkered shirt. His white beard and hair are disheveled, his reading 9️⃣ glasses hang from his neck. His desk is covered in several layers of dust and papers scribbled with formulas and 9️⃣ numbers - their degree of yellowing is a like a scale that reflects the strata of his life as a 9️⃣ gambler.
This is more or less the position in which he spends his days at home in Madrid, although he does 9️⃣ inch closer to the screen in order to determine the exact placement of his horse (Going Wrong seems to be 9️⃣ in third place, maybe second; it's hard to tell on the small screen).
At times he gets up to check the 9️⃣ other four computers he has placed in various rooms in his house. They are all buzzing with their own activity, 9️⃣ offering players from all over the planet bets that he has programmed. An electronic cry of "Goal!" can be heard 9️⃣ every so often from one of them, announcing a new development in the ongoing Debrecen-Kaposvár game in the Hungarian League. 9️⃣ The software immediately updates itself, offering 2.6/1 that it will be four-goal match. Soccer is the axis upon which García-Pelayo's 9️⃣ private fund rotates. His computers offer 200 bets daily, from which he expects to earn some 15,000 euros a month, 9️⃣ part of which will go to the investors and the remainder to a retirement fund. It took him a year 9️⃣ to study how and what to program: "a degree in sports betting," he calls it. Though he will be 65 9️⃣ in June, there are a lot of unexplained gaps on his résumé.
Gonzalo García-Pelayo posing with his wife and children on 9️⃣ working vacations in Las Vegas.
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