Hi Crate,
This and last year I made more profits from betting on NBA and the US elections:
http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/players-ta...ey.html?slf=27
But, it did lead me a few times to place £1,000 bets and I told myself that's it, it's too much.
So I self excluded myself until October from 32Red and Pinnacle which allowed me to place huge bets and took bookies that don't allow me to bet big amounts (such as TheGreek, RedKings and others).
I found self-exclusion to be a useful tool for a better, likewise a cooling off period.
Soon I will try SkyBet back again and bet £200 there.
But basically, I don't know much about stocks market, but I do understand that the NBA, Baseball and all these US Sports are run by Vegas ... they set a line of 12 in Baseball just to make everyone go UNDER and the few ones betting the over as well as Vegas itself make money.
I don't believe the Sports are nowadays played with pure heart and pure win ... it's a show, lots of it a show ....
For example,
I told myself based on patterns I've seen before, Memphis - OKC ended 184 pts, just around that line .... so I figured the other line would be OVER between Knicks and Pacers and that one won't be close to the line ... so I waited 1st-2nd quarter to confirm it's heading this way, placed the over bets in live and made my £400 ($600) there.
My problem is not with that....
My problem is to stay in control ... see this thread?
http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/players-ta...oney-line.html
Why would I risk $1400 US Dollars just to win $140? It's stupid, right?
Well for me it's not ... I didn't wanna find myself betting with this money on Tennis or other stupid things and I told myself this is going to be my way to not touch the money ...
See?
If I could, be in full control, I wouldn't even place any bet, I would take the £967 back (not betting on the Baseball neither) and just wait for a good opportunity ....
But this is the problem...
If you have control you can make money out of this, I'm talking from experienced, and based on pure facts from my own life, not others!