1. 05-31-12 07:32 PM #1
    Brock Landers
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    How did you bet BEFORE the internet?

    I played at the OTB and Illinois casino's prior to internet gambling. But actually when i started with ESB back in 95, it was all phone in anyway, www.telebet.com didn't take bets, i don't think they were ever anything more than a call in shop.

    Didn't bet online till 99 with Intertops.
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  2. 05-31-12 07:34 PM #2
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  3. 05-31-12 07:43 PM #3
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    I didn't.
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  4. 05-31-12 07:46 PM #4
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  5. 05-31-12 07:48 PM #5
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  6. 05-31-12 07:49 PM #6
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  7. 05-31-12 07:58 PM #7
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    i used a local and i was also playing at wwts in like 93 or 94 (i think it was a long time ago)i was calling in my bets to them. they offered so many trips down to antigua to visit their offices
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  8. 05-31-12 08:01 PM #8
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    Who was the online book (Jazz ??) where you had to download there software and install on your computer to place bets ?? An early online book obviously
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  9. 05-31-12 08:06 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by allabout the $$$ View Post
    i used a local and i was also playing at wwts in like 93 or 94 (i think it was a long time ago)i was calling in my bets to them. they offered so many trips down to antigua to visit their offices
    ESB used to send a cigar in their fed ex packages containing my payout checks
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  10. 05-31-12 08:07 PM #10
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    walked down to my local TAB haha.
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  11. 05-31-12 08:09 PM #11
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    didn't, just went to casino or horse track or made bets with friends

    90 percent of sbr had internet when they were 4 years old
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  12. 05-31-12 08:10 PM #12
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    never had a local and didnt start gambling online until 2001. just went to vegas as much as i could back in the day.
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  13. 05-31-12 08:15 PM #13
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  14. 05-31-12 08:22 PM #14
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    Went mostly to Reno Nevada and a few parlay cards from a friend at work in the 90's.
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  15. 05-31-12 09:09 PM #15
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  16. 05-31-12 09:12 PM #16
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    Phone
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  17. 05-31-12 09:12 PM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Phone

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    fukkin old school!
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  18. 05-31-12 09:14 PM #18
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    had a guy

    bet 10's and 20's a game....broke dik college student
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  19. 05-31-12 09:32 PM #19
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  20. 05-31-12 09:48 PM #20
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    I go back to the days when the bookies would say whatever the line was in the new york post that was your line for the day.you could only call a bookie in a 1 hour span say between 6.15 to 7.30 then the shop was closed

    you couldnt bet totals there was no such thing as totals in any sport not even football

    no totals period back in the earlt 80's
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  21. 05-31-12 10:03 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brock Landers View Post
    fukkin old school!
    old school like them rugs corbin wears
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  22. 05-31-12 10:11 PM #22
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  23. 05-31-12 10:13 PM #23
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    parlay cards, and instead of having a private browser open, had a couple of old fukk books stashed away...you still end up using the same amount of jerkins though so no real savings there.
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  24. 05-31-12 10:16 PM #24
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    i'll never forget the day i visited the OTB in champaign while in college in 1995. I bought a Daily Racing Form and on the back cover was this huge ad for English Sports Betting. My eyes about popped out of my head. I got home and made the call and had shit set up the next day.

    Brock Landers was born in March of 1995! March Madness was my introduction
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  25. 06-01-12 05:20 AM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brock Landers View Post
    i'll never forget the day i visited the OTB in champaign while in college in 1995. I bought a Daily Racing Form and on the back cover was this huge ad for English Sports Betting. My eyes about popped out of my head. I got home and made the call and had shit set up the next day.

    Brock Landers was born in March of 1995! March Madness was my introduction
    lol....there was nothing like that feeling when we saw those adds that we can bet sports from usa outside of Vegas
    I could not beleive it..I think my first non usa bookie bet was a CFL game via Bowmans

    Excellent point Brock
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  26. 06-01-12 06:52 AM #26
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    Betting is to the internet what Spankwire/Tube 8 are to porn. SBRJOHN gets down on his hands and knees daily and thanks the man that invented the internet....Al Gore
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  27. 06-01-12 06:56 AM #27
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    Anyone remember Dial-A-Bet? That was my venue
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  28. 06-01-12 10:31 AM #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    lol....there was nothing like that feeling when we saw those adds that we can bet sports from usa outside of Vegas
    I could not beleive it..I think my first non usa bookie bet was a CFL game via Bowmans

    Excellent point Brock
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  29. 06-01-12 10:47 AM #29
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    yeah 1995 vip sports, had to call in bets and the guy would always read it back like a gangster

    milwaukee mike: "i want $500 on the brewers and $400 on the white sox"
    vip sports dude: "that's a nickel on the beermakers and 4 dollars on the south siders"

    no idea how or why the guy had nicknames for every team...
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  30. 06-01-12 10:49 AM #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by milwaukee mike View Post
    yeah 1995 vip sports, had to call in bets and the guy would always read it back like a gangster

    milwaukee mike: "i want $500 on the brewers and $400 on the white sox"
    vip sports dude: "that's a nickel on the beermakers and 4 dollars on the south siders"

    no idea how or why the guy had nicknames for every team...
    In an attempt to stay covert from the 5 0.
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  33. 06-01-12 11:06 AM #33
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    Intertops as well 1996 started me off... when they took 10% for winning...
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  35. 06-01-12 11:16 AM #35
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