Originally posted by l7ustin
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Hey Nicky, I was cruising all football season. Things took a dramatic turn on Thanksgiving. I lost $7,500 in 10 days. It was crazy. Including last year, down about 30K. I couldn't get a bounce or a call. Games I though I had, like Dallas and Alabama went the other way in the 4th qtr. As soon as I felt like I had something a little figured out it turned on me. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this: Nobody make money gambling on sports. It's almost impossible. Unless you have a huge bankroll, tremendous amount of self discipline, and make only a handful of plays. My favorite post was the one of you flipping a coin. Nothing can be more accurate. Side note: Amazing how I've been watching sports all my life and get like 10 out of 11 wrong. I'm sure If I asked a monkey to pick out games the monkey wood have more luck.Comment -
I completely agree! I have played sports since I was a kid and played Div 1 baseball my first 2 years of college and still play semi-pro and I hit 48% on baseball this year. A sport that I have lived and breathed since I was 6!!! Unreal...Comment -
It happens to us all.
Im having a very bad month.
Hopefully my Champions picks today cash ... but with my luck lately ... it can all go to sh!t ... lolComment -
robert, good post, buddy.. i dontk know you, but you sound like a smart guy.. there are winners, but it is few.. it has nothign to do with luck or how the ball bounces, or bankroll.. etc.. it is about being discipline, not chasing, and most important, having an edge on every game line wise.. if you dont have all these and more, you stand NO CHANCE.. people still dont believe me when i say that the more you know about sports, the less successful you are.. knowing every player in every sport helps you 0%.. if anything, it hurts you..Originally posted by robert715
Knowing how often a game lands on its spread, the frequency of it, how much a half pt costs.. and many many more factors is way more important than knowing Patriots are 6-0 in their last 6 games and 8-0 on Sunday night while playing on grass after following a loss..etc...
it's 96% about knowing #'s, %'s and lines...etc... and knowing line movements, beating closing #'s, having a good feel about which way a line will move and betting it in time, and most important, getting an edge on each line and beating the closing # consistently.. that's how sports betting can be beaten. this is the only way..Comment -
Nicky, at what point in your betting career did you start to trend away from "conventional" capping and start being more of a numbers guy? Does it take a lot of pressure off the results of the games because you know that you're just following a method compared to trying to compare teams and who you think will win?Comment -
tell me it's not true i've almost saved up the 899.95 for Lt's 6 month NHL package.
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Originally posted by themajormt
major,
when i 1st started gambling at a young age, i thought it was so easy, just pick the winner.. how easy can it be? check both teams records, etc.. i knew my sports.. wow, easy money.. but i kept on losing losing losing.. I thought i was just unlucky.. then my buddy becomes a bookie and asks me to be a page writer.. (write the bets for him)i then saw all his customers losing it all.. they all owed him big.. no one was winning.. but that's when i started to understand the math behind it. he taught me and i saw it with my own eyes.. i then observed it all, and being pretty good with numbers, i learnt the business really good.. i saw that knowing sports does not help at all, and that getting edges in lines was the only way..
it was a great experience working for my buddy, the bookie, Steve Metaxas.. i learn a lot from this 7 dollar an hr job..Comment