didn't know that part, well I learned my lesson the hard way. gambling big doesn't pay off, I wager less now then I did decades ago. and that is when I didn't have the money, now I do. I realize at the end of most years I will be a loser, however, I have had a few decent years, not many but a few. you get hot in football and extremely lucky and you have a shot.
I noticed in my part of the country anyway that American players love foot, that is the number one sport we handled, then baskets mostly college followed by NBA, coming in last we had hockey and base. the irony is I believe IMO, baseball is the least difficult sport for the player to be successful in. when we lost a week it was almost always baseball. don't get me wrong you don't get handed money but IMO it was not as difficult as the other balls.
you know the book has all the advantages, the math, the vig, the stupid players, the chalk players, the gimmick players and every other advantage. how can a smart player win consistently and then you have complete idiots, people who don't realize the vig they are paying on gimmicks. people who can't do the math.
and how about football cards, OMG. I had a bookie friend who distributed football cards. Dear Jesus you have almost zero chance. Pick 4 winners and get 10 to one, and even that is not correct. You didn't get 10 to one you got back 100 on your 10, which included your original 10. then ties lose, you know how many ties it takes in a typical week to make a winning ticket extremely difficult. four or five ties and almost every ticket is a loser, especially if those ties are TV games.
then you have the asshole bookies who put out a minus 3 game, meaning whatever team you take must win by four. how about that for crazy, they don't have enough vig they need to make it even worse. I haven't seen cards in a long time so maybe that minus shit is over with.
I noticed in my part of the country anyway that American players love foot, that is the number one sport we handled, then baskets mostly college followed by NBA, coming in last we had hockey and base. the irony is I believe IMO, baseball is the least difficult sport for the player to be successful in. when we lost a week it was almost always baseball. don't get me wrong you don't get handed money but IMO it was not as difficult as the other balls.
you know the book has all the advantages, the math, the vig, the stupid players, the chalk players, the gimmick players and every other advantage. how can a smart player win consistently and then you have complete idiots, people who don't realize the vig they are paying on gimmicks. people who can't do the math.
and how about football cards, OMG. I had a bookie friend who distributed football cards. Dear Jesus you have almost zero chance. Pick 4 winners and get 10 to one, and even that is not correct. You didn't get 10 to one you got back 100 on your 10, which included your original 10. then ties lose, you know how many ties it takes in a typical week to make a winning ticket extremely difficult. four or five ties and almost every ticket is a loser, especially if those ties are TV games.
then you have the asshole bookies who put out a minus 3 game, meaning whatever team you take must win by four. how about that for crazy, they don't have enough vig they need to make it even worse. I haven't seen cards in a long time so maybe that minus shit is over with.
