Originally posted on 10/23/2013:

I lived in vegas hanging in the sportsbooks daily for a year...and yes, the 1 percent may be correct...but 1 percent is a lot of people...the windows have a constant stream of people in every casino....i met many many people betting that much...some use services some don't...trying to generalize doesn't get us far...the part that fools people is that they think these dime betters are doing it for a living...absolutely not....they have real jobs and this is their hobby...very very very few people are able to do this for a living (i tried...lost).....but dime betters? They're everywhere