Gambling :: Do 'Math Guys' live a more agonizing life and die younger ?

[Sam Odom]

I think so

[donjuan]

Huh? The "non-math" guys are the ones pressing F5 20 times/minute at 1 in the morning to get their sweat on on some untelevised Hawaii game from the sound of things.

[dwaechte]

Too general. There are so many different types of people on both sides of the equation.

[Sam Odom]

Guys spending umpteen hrs a week crunching numbers and tweaking their model are who I'm speaking of...

[dwaechte]

Guys spending umpteen hrs a week crunching numbers and tweaking their model are who I'm speaking of...

Yeah, but I mean you can be one of those guys but still be a degenerate who lives and dies with every play.

[mathdotcom]

Yep the math guys who don't have to go to a 9-5 job and get assfukked every day by one of many bosses have it really tough

math is the solution to everything

[MonkeyF0cker]

I don't even watch 95% of my games. I'd bet the people who are sweating every game have a little higher stress level than someone "tweaking a model." There really isn't much stress in building and backtesting a model. It's not like you have a deadline. If you don't have a profitable model for a sport, you don't bet it. It's that simple. The biggest stresses I have are fighting traffic to try to get in a last second wager and like today when the new chick at the Binions parking garage said I had to pay $12 because I lost my parking ticket when I went to go make a wager even when she said she remembered me leaving twice earlier. Fukkin cunt had to call security. Needless to say I can't use their parking garage any more.

[Sam Odom]

"Fukkin cunt had to call security."

[teaserpleaser]

[MonkeyF0cker]

I'm sure the "math guys" who wager online have a few payout and funding hassles every now and then, though. I'm sure that's their biggest stress.