Do you view Sports Betting as source of Income or Hobby?

[Da Beer Guy]

I have shitty fukking job so i have been looking at it like a secondary source of income.

However maybe its better to view it as a hobby, that way I dont get as pissed when i lose.

does anyone here consider gambling their primary source of income?

[mcduggly]

No or I would either die of a heart attack or end up in jail for murdering someone.

[tto827]

Hobby. The day I have to rely on sports betting income, is they day I stop betting.

[Da Beer Guy]

haha i think gambling could actually heart problems or high blood pressure.

[mcduggly]

Hobby. The day I have to rely on sports betting income, is they day I stop betting.

I'm with you on that.

[Vinnie Paz]

Hobby. The day I have to rely on sports betting income, is they day I stop betting.

didn't you used to have that soccer thread....pretty sure I read your posts saying you lived off gambling. If im mistaken, my apologies.

I'd be nice if I could even say it was a second source of money

[Chi_archie]

Hobby

[tto827]

didn't you used to have that soccer thread....pretty sure I read your posts saying you lived off gambling. If im mistaken, my apologies.

I'd be nice if I could even say it was a second source of money

Not me, I've made maybe 3 soccer bets in my life, and all of them were tailing friends or fellow posters. If you didn't get the bulletin that I'm not PickWinnersAllDay, then maybe you're thinking of him, not sure.

LOL, ya, right now it seems to be another source of spending.

[BigDeem5]

Hobby bc I love fukkin sweating out games

[High3rEl3m3nt]

Guys, be honest with yourselves. This is not just a hobby. If it truly is, get out while you can...take up a different hobby. Very few people join a sports gambling forum, log in thousands of posts, and can maintain that level of innocense. Let's face it, a small fraction here do this for an income; however, a larger fraction of us here do this to survive day-in, day-out. Sportsbetting and watching games has been shown to release chemicals within your body that are proven to be addicting. Hopefully, you can maintain this state betting smaller amounts on games and never reach the level that Landers has.

[opie1988]

I view it as a source of helping me deplete my income.

[ChalkyDog]

The definition of Hobby according to me is: Sink dollar after dollar and hour after hour into something with no monetary benefit, just because you "enjoy" it.

As a result, Hobby is the perfect word for it. Love sports, can't get enough of them, gambling has always made them better.

I don't envy the grinders that do this for a living.

[High3rEl3m3nt]

So hobby with addictive properties?...sportsgambling is our drug of choice.

[Da Beer Guy]

So hobby with addictive properties?...sportsgambling is our drug of choice.

it really is my drug of choice. it makes me feel alive.

[High3rEl3m3nt]

It's good to be honest with ourselves. Most of us are addicted.

[soul786]

Hobby for me. I lose more money going out for dinners than sportsbetting it seems.

[innovation]

depends if I won or lost that day.

[BennyBigNuts]

Anyone who lays -110 on Nba,Nfl, or Ncaa games and says they bet sports for a living is just a degenerate in denial. Most of the losers on this site are just broke-touting and betting their worthless points and calling it action.
The truth hurts, and degens just like to live in fairy tale land. Don't fall for any of it brah. And don't be so naive to think you can win in sports and call it "A 2nd source of income".
The .001% of people who actually beat sports consistently night-in and night-out are people with million dollar bankrolls, and who are happy winning a couple hundred a day off of it on average by the year's end. And those people don't waste their time on sites like this jerking themselves off.

[TobiasFunke]

I guess it could be a second source of income as you say, for smaller things, but to try and make it a full source of income is unrealistic for 99% of bettors

[katstale]

Used to be a handful of professionals on here dispensing nuggets. I would say less than 10. Number now is prob less than 5.

[mcaulay777]

Thought about it for a while when i was a pro horseplayer.When i lived in Phoenix before moving to Iowa i made frequent trips to vegas every weekend during baseball season and was doing very well and winning but family kept me in Pho or i would have i tried.I think you can do it for a living if you bet just baseball and have a bankroll simply because There are so Many MLB games to bet you can get prices and be selective.

[physed]

both

[Da Beer Guy]

Thought about it for a while when i was a pro horseplayer.When i lived in Phoenix before moving to Iowa i made frequent trips to vegas every weekend during baseball season and was doing very well and winning but family kept me in Pho or i would have i tried.I think you can do it for a living if you bet just baseball and have a bankroll simply because There are so Many MLB games to bet you can get prices and be selective.

whats your opinion on the occasional 4 team parlay In MLB?

say you can get Verlander, Kershaw, Weaver, Halladay?

[JonWal]

not source of income but if you have the edge its a solid investment. Find a job that you like man or if you hate working in general like me you can find a job where you're mostly doing nothing all day...

[mcaulay777]

Ive always stayed away from parlays myself because i always seem to lose one no matter how good i think my plays are.I would rather just pick my best game out of 3 and put all my eggs in one basket ive done better this way.Thats why i really hate touts most of the time because they always seem to give it out more then 1 play.

[2daBank]

i should view it as a source of income, then maybe id actually cash out sometimes when im doing well and staying disciplined instead of just continually betting more and more no matter how much i win cause it never enough till it gone (with a few rare exceptions).. to me once i deposit i dont even bother counting it as mine any longer,,no matter what the balance gets to it all relative cause really what do i need money for anyways besides to gamble? me and the wife do well enough where we can pay the bills, have some money to do stuff, and support my other drugs of choice...

when i played with locals with bigger amounts way back in the day it was a little different cause money actually changed hands weekly so then there were times i kinda leaned on it from time to time and was hurting other times, that shit a lot of stress tho and way more trouble than it worth..

[Da Beer Guy]

Ive always stayed away from parlays myself because i always seem to lose one no matter how good i think my plays are.I would rather just pick my best game out of 3 and put all my eggs in one basket ive done better this way.Thats why i really hate touts most of the time because they always seem to give it out more then 1 play.

i know right i hate when touts want to give you 5 plays

[GunShard]

If you bet on Sports every day and every week. Then it's a Hobby.
If you bet on Sports every month and every year. Then it can be a source of Income.
Spot betting is what I am promoting here.

[rm18]

income but about to only bet props because getting buried

[James D]

I consider sports betting a source of income.

FOR MY BOOKIE

[James D]

Used to be a handful of professionals on here dispensing nuggets. I would say less than 10. Number now is prob less than 5.

Really? What changed Kat? Not looking for free picks I am just curious as to why they left?

[5mike5]

income, at least to pay the bills

[onlooker]

Extra income. I do not rely on it.

[El Sol]

Think of it like a mutual fund if you have the discipline. The only way ive been able to show profit is by doing this with my wife. I make the picks. She places the bets. She hates gambling im a degenerate. So she keeps the bets under control and now we make money

[nexus13]

Listen to yourself guys!! You guys are really negative! Sportbetting IS a source of income for me. I graduated college this year. I looked everywhere for jobs. The economy sux and I couldn't find a job. I decided to take up Sportbetting and have been seriously doing it for a few months now. I have nothing but good things to say about it. I do research on my bets along with picks from good cappers around the web. I developed my own system and I have been doing a great job at it. I'm in financially better shape than most of my peers. I love everything about SPORT INVESTING. I will be a very wealthy young man soon. I am truly serious about this and I hope you guys will wake up one day and be positive soon. Thank You.