[jjgold]

I would have to think 95% are over that Mark unless you're really young kid

[sportsfan9698]

Nobody wants to admit it... but you are correct. For anybody over the age of 40 a safe figure is prolly 100k+

[Buffalo Nickle]

Most people not even close. You have to have $20,000 before you can gamble it away. Most people here cannot even afford to wait to rollover $500.

[jjgold]

Any older guys are over the mark nobody wants to admit it except myself and some others

I could've bought three Cadillacs with the money I lost the car of my dreams that I'll never get because of gambling

[sportsfan9698]

I have lost that much and far more over 30+ years... and some years I have earned 6 figures, more than a few times. In 2011 I made over $65k betting baseball over a period of 6 weeks and I used it for a big down payment on my house. It is not all bad...

When I was 20 years old in college I would bet $3000 per football game x 10 over a weekend and come back to my apt with a brown bag full of cash. There were bad years later of course... but I would never have had such a great time lol

[daneblazer]

You can be the best or worst capper, card player, or gambler in the world but if you can't manage your money you are toast. When I played poker one of the best players I've ever seen...guy went to Princeton...would win several thousands at poker in one sitting but couldn't make it out of the casino past the baccarat tables. He got too far in the hole. You just have to try to make your risk of ruin as close to zero as you can get it

[triplecrown333]

i paid for that big ass chandelier that hangs in taj mahal ...

[winz]

lets not kid ourselves..no one wins...esp when you factor in the time, brainpower, and discipline required...way better off using your time and energy to get a higher level education and playing it straight in life...but that's not our style....so lets take under 223 on warriors/thunder instead.

[grease lightnin]

I am up 900 lifetime.

[dante1]

Nobody wants to admit it... but you are correct. For anybody over the age of 40 a safe figure is prolly 100k+

Two guys that know what they are talking about. I booked which some of you know and I have lost much more than 100,000 by betting in my lifetime and collected much more than 250,000 when booking. True story my friends.

[winz]

I am up 900 lifetime.

congrats!..you can buy yourself a decent pair of shoes and dinner.

[dante1]

Any older guys are over the mark nobody wants to admit it except myself and some others

I could've bought three Cadillacs with the money I lost the car of my dreams that I'll never get because of gambling

got you my friend. I get it, and you're correct.

when booking I financed a girl friend and her kids and remodeled her house. I bought an antique car which I wanted my entire life. I would go to the track and lose 1000 or more constantly. Didn't care because I knew at the end of the week we would be up much more than that at the sports book. Books can't lose in the long run, it is like stealing money.

[franklee168]

I paid for the 8th nozzle at the Bellagio fountain.

[sportsfan9698]

congrats!..you can buy yourself a decent pair of shoes and dinner.

Who wears $600 shoes and pays $300 for dinner? Nobody

If he is actually up 900 for lifetime, that is an accomplishment that most cannot claim. But your point is taken, it is a drop in the bucket in terms of trying to make a living.

[SharpAngles]

I would have to think 95% are over that Mark unless you're really young kid

Coach your capeing is off here

And don't call me Mark

[winz]

actually im wearing $600 shoes right now and might spend a couple of hundred on dinner and drinks if bring the gf along...so maybe im exaggerating a little, but not much.

[funnyb25]

The ones that claim they live off their gambling winnings but haven't produced a winning thread in years...love those guys

[SharpAngles]

Who wears $600 shoes and pays $300 for dinner? Nobody

If he is actually up 900 for lifetime, that is an accomplishment that most cannot claim. But your point is taken, it is a drop in the bucket in terms of trying to make a living.

Brokedik alert


I'm enjoying lunch at Ruth Chris in my Gucci flip flops as we speak player

[Electrons]

Get the fuk out of here.

First of all I don't think many here have any disposable income to lose 20k.

And if you have and you're aware that you're going to continue to piss money away, then fuk you for being so stupid.

[grease lightnin]

congrats!..you can buy yourself a decent pair of shoes and dinner.

I was looking at a pair of Ferragamos.

In all seriousness, I have only been sports betting regularly since I joined SBR. First year I was up $2500, and then.....

I make a lot of money, but I only bet 20-200 a game. Small time, just for fun.

[dante1]

I would have to think 95% are over that Mark unless you're really young kid

I think it is much higher than 95% JJ. Like you write, if they play long enough and bet high enough they will reach that amount easily. When I had to quit booking I still needed to bet. Needed the action, I knew I could never quit. So I play small now. No more $1000 plays and throwing the remote at the TV. Now if I lose 2 or 3 thousand at the end of the season I don't really care that much. I had fun, and once in a great while I end up making a couple bucks but that is rare.

I do mostly everything wrong now. I play a ton of games which is stupid, I even play parlays which is really stupid. But, when you are playing with small stakes and you don't care it is fun. I no longer have that anxious feeling because I don't know how I am going to come up with 4 or 5 thousand. When I was just out of college I was always struggling to find the money to pay the book during foot season. What an horrendous deal that is. Then one of the bigger bookies in the area asked me to run his book. What a difference, I had action and I couldn't lose. I was in 7th heaven. I did that for over two decades and never had a losing year, very seldom a losing season.

true story guys.

[MinnesotaFats]

That's about what it takes to actually learn how to gamble respectably.

In a nod to LT Profits, I tailed his college bball run 2 (maybe last year???) years ago where he was hitting at a 65% clip for 3 months and killed it to honestly say that I'm within striking distance of even water.

[grease lightnin]

I think it is much higher than 95% JJ. Like you write, if they play long enough and bet high enough they will reach that amount easily. When I had to quit booking I still needed to bet. Needed the action, I knew I could never quit. So I play small now. No more $1000 plays and throwing the remote at the TV. Now if I lose 2 or 3 thousand at the end of the season I don't really care that much. I had fun, and once in a great while I end up making a couple bucks but that is rare.

I do mostly everything wrong now. I play a ton of games which is stupid, I even play parlays which is really stupid. But, when you are playing with small stakes and you don't care it is fun. I no longer have that anxious feeling because I don't know how I am going to come up with 4 or 5 thousand. When I was just out of college I was always struggling to find the money to pay the book during foot season. What an horrendous deal that is. Then one of the bigger bookies in the area asked me to run his book. What a difference, I had action and I couldn't lose. I was in 7th heaven. I did that for over two decades and never had a losing year, very seldom a losing season.

true story guys.

My bookie books because he says it is juice-free action.

[winz]

I was looking at a pair of Ferragamos.

In all seriousness, I have only been sports betting regularly since I joined SBR. First year I was up $2500, and then.....

I make a lot of money, but I only bet 20-200 a game. Small time, just for fun.

more power to you if you can keep it that way..most cant since we see "locks" and then we decide why only win 200 when i can pick up 2000...and thats how it goes...in the end it very rarely ends positive.

[dante1]

My bookie books because he says it is juice-free action.

he is right grease l, no juice and if you can even off the action you can't lose. It is a no lose situation, even dumb bookies make money, big money. in my area it is difficult to find bookies. my boss died and his family wanted to continue but the action was dying out because of off shore betting. the one way a bookie can lose is if he doesn't have much action. If you are taking action from only a couple people you can lose. but if you have 30 or 40 players it is almost impossible to lose, especially if you lay off the big action.

[grease lightnin]

more power to you if you can keep it that way..most cant since we see "locks" and then we decide why only win 200 when i can pick up 2000...and thats how it goes...in the end it very rarely ends positive.

Well... I see it as entertainment. I have other, more promising ways to make money.

You should be able to spend some time here and figure out pretty quickly that this is not a good way to make money.

I do get tempted to bet big when I think I have an edge, but I bet on credit with a bookie and keep my pay-up/pay-out level low. He has wanted me to up it a few times but I tell him no.

[KVB]

The ones that claim they live off their gambling winnings but haven't produced a winning thread in years...love those guys

I did the winning thread thing, all it did was get me some unwanted attention. I've found winning plays by winning gamblers should be sought by those who want to win, not just handed to those who want to tail.

[sportsfan9698]

I did the winning thread thing, all it did was get me some unwanted attention. I've found winning plays by winning gamblers should be sought by those who want to win, not just handed to those who want to tail.

[dante1]

Well... I see it as entertainment. I have other, more promising ways to make money.

You should be able to spend some time here and figure out pretty quickly that this is not a good way to make money.

I do get tempted to bet big when I think I have an edge, but I bet on credit with a bookie and keep my pay-up/pay-out level low. He has wanted me to up it a few times but I tell him no.

Smart grease l, don't ever think he is doing you a favor by giving you a higher limit. Obviously, he knows you are a good player because you pay and you make decent money. That is the type of player they love. Stay smart, what you are doing is the proper way to play, Don't get tempted because that will be bad news. But, reading your above reply you are pretty sharp and have this figured out. Good job my friend.

[grease lightnin]

Smart grease l, don't ever think he is doing you a favor by giving you a higher limit. Obviously, he knows you are a good player because you pay and you make decent money. That is the type of player they love. Stay smart, what you are doing is the proper way to play, Don't get tempted because that will be bad news. But, reading your above reply you are pretty sharp and have this figured out. Good job my friend.

Yeah it's funny. He said he wanted to up my limit because he didn't want to meet as often, but this just happened to be when we were meeting for the second time in a month and he was paying me both times.

[gauchojake]

The thread title deked all of you guys

[ChuckyTheGoat]

I would have to think 95% are over that Mark unless you're really young kid

That's YOUR problem, pal. Don't PROJECT.

[unde0087]

I was looking at a pair of Ferragamos.

In all seriousness, I have only been sports betting regularly since I joined SBR. First year I was up $2500, and then.....

I make a lot of money, but I only bet 20-200 a game. Small time, just for fun.

Ya, Greaser, I am the same way. When I deposit it's a couple hundred. When my bets become large, talking 500-1000, is when I take that 200-300 deposit and turn it into several thousand. I never understood people that send 5-10k to a sportsbook in another country to people they don't know especially when the US government has put the clamps down on tranfering money.
Sure I have losing seasons but when I lose it is in the hundreds not thousands.

[MoMoneyMoVaughn]

Younger guy. Checking in. Only down $17,000

[jjgold]

I think it is much higher than 95% JJ. Like you write, if they play long enough and bet high enough they will reach that amount easily. When I had to quit booking I still needed to bet. Needed the action, I knew I could never quit. So I play small now. No more $1000 plays and throwing the remote at the TV. Now if I lose 2 or 3 thousand at the end of the season I don't really care that much. I had fun, and once in a great while I end up making a couple bucks but that is rare.



I do mostly everything wrong now. I play a ton of games which is stupid, I even play parlays which is really stupid. But, when you are playing with small stakes and you don't care it is fun. I no longer have that anxious feeling because I don't know how I am going to come up with 4 or 5 thousand. When I was just out of college I was always struggling to find the money to pay the book during foot season. What an horrendous deal that is. Then one of the bigger bookies in the area asked me to run his book. What a difference, I had action and I couldn't lose. I was in 7th heaven. I did that for over two decades and never had a losing year, very seldom a losing season.

true story guys.

Where are you from?