ESPN Signs Sports Betting Analyst Pamela Maldonado

ESPN has agreed to a contract with sports betting analyst Pamela Maldonado. Maldonado will be joining ESPN’s sports betting team ahead of this college football season.

She is expected to present advanced analytics and a deep understanding of the game while providing insightful commentary for fans looking to place bets.

Maldonado will also provide insights and betting analysis around NFL, golf, and tennis, primarily for ESPN.com’s betting editorial coverage.

but wait..there's more 😁 like..WHAAAT????

full circle moment. 2012: moved to Vegas w/no job but the want to work in poker media. i did that for 6 years, discovering sports betting as a hobby & met great folks like @AFeldmanESPN.

in 2019 i left poker w/no clue what was next >… https://t.co/tP0ycE8B7e

— Pamela Maldonado (@pamelam35) August 14, 2024

“Pamela has established herself as a respected voice in the sports betting space, and will provide great insight and depth to our overall sports betting coverage,” said Scott Clark, Vice President, Fantasy & Betting Content.

“[She] has extensive betting experience across many sports, including football, and the timing is perfect as we gear up for the college football and NFL season.”

Pamela Maldonado previously worked for PokerNews, Yahoo! Sports, and the VSiN sports betting network before joining ESPN

Maldonado said, “I am excited to bring my love of college football and other sports to ESPN. I am even more excited to educate and provide analysis by way of sports betting. As they say, chance favors the prepared mind.”

She also previously worked for PokerNews, Yahoo! Sports, and the VSiN sports betting network as a content creator. Maldonado had spent nearly seven years in the poker industry, starting out in 2012 as an intern for PokerNews before becoming the site’s social media manager, a role she left in 2019.

Maldonado, who resides in Austin and graduated from the University of Texas in 2007, expressed her excitement in a tweet after joining the Worldwide Leader in Sports. She said she moved to Las Vegas in 2012 to pursue a career in poker media. However, when she left the industry, she “had no clue what was next.”

According to her LinkedIn profile, she used to analyze the betting markets and would offer an in-depth analysis on plays for OddsShark.com. The sports she would analyze include college football, NFL, PGA, and ATP tennis.

Her specialties include Adobe Premiere, content marketing, content strategy, copywriting, Facebook, Google Analytics, Sketch, social media marketing, Twitter, and web marketing.