In 2000 couple of buddies talked me into buying this service of a.t.s. They gave out their pre-season lock of philly eagles against tenn titans. Now philly was up maybe td or 2. In comes some guy named billy volek comes in throws 3 td and runs another. Needless to say i had to buy a new tv after the game. Blew about 700 on my own.We blew 5000 as a group. This s.o.b. wanted to up how much we gave. We had already given $2000 as a group. Me at the time had a short fuse. When he asked that I called him a dumb ass. He hung up the phone and called my buddy. He said I was to never call him again. My buddy who is older irish guy just was laughing his ass off.Son of a bitch gave us 3 games a week. He was running about 2 games under when that guy asked again for his special games. He accidentally called me for the derby and i got into argument again. So i forgot all about this company. In 2009 a different buddy bought all their conference championship games. He gave out nebraska in 2009 big 12 championship game. My buddy lost 1000 on it. That guy called my phone (i had my phone since 1984 with same number) (My first bill was 1100 for the first month.lol) and told me he gave out texas
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I don't remember any funny stories specifically.
But I did find a couple of the original sports forums back around 2000 because they were advertised on Who2beton's sports service site.
Also had a buddy at work who was inexperienced and would have a tout call him and give him plays until he learned it wasn't worth it.Comment -
Where is JJ or Chi_Archie?
One really old vid of JJ phoning a tout is probably his funniest ever..Comment -
all touts give out both sides to gamesComment -
Never trust a tout that gives out game of the day/week/month/year/century etc. Never trust a tout who touts winning % without yield. Never trust a tout who has unlimited unit bankroll who would keep raising his bet to artificially inflate the units won using martingale style.
Winning in sports betting is not for everyone. 99% of the touts are simply clueless about sports handicapping and they are just marketers. The ones who win, know its a grind and they do it with money management using an investment style strategy/approach. I recommend reading the articles at bettingresource.com, especially the money management article and using it to follow your picks. Even if you suck at picking games, it would still limit your losses and make your bankroll last longer instead of you having to make a deposit every time you get your paycheck.
Finally to answer the question, the funniest tout story was around 2005 when some tout somehow got my number...i have no idea how....they must be associated with the books that i played in. Back the there were lot of small time books and i didnt know about the big books, so i played in some shitty books that screwed me over by not paying. Anyways, this guy calls me and tells me how he has a game that I must bet and he was basically threatening in a sort to bet that game and tells me that I have to pay him only if win. I knew right away he was some scammer and told him off and he got all mafia on me and told me how he is going to track me down etc....i quickly told him how much of an idiot he is and that the conversation is getting recorded....he hung up before i could finish the sentence.Comment