Serious Question no joking.....

[phillyhata1]

If i wanted to pursue a career in professional handicapping, how would i do it. I mean like a career. How do you learn how to actually handicap games

[toastedbread01]

If i wanted to pursue a career in professional handicapping, how would i do it. I mean like a career. How do you learn how to actually handicap games

Start by reading the Think Tank.

[phillyhata1]

thanks toasted ill check it out

[SamsNCharge99]

[pavyracer]

Start by creating an elaborate math model where you feed hundreds of useless stats but do not share how it works with anyone and then flip coins to pick games.

[toastedbread01]

thanks toasted ill check it out

Another tip...

Tail Sammy's picks and you will come out ahead. Guy can't be stopped. He's a natural.

[phillyhata1]

yea i know sammy that dude just played me

[phillyhata1]

so far just a bunch of useless info, thanks for the help

[Mr Nuts]

Don't do it!

[MonkeyF0cker]

Start by reading the Think Tank.

This. But I'm sure you'll give up after 7 minutes. So does it really matter?

[toastedbread01]

This. But I'm sure you'll give up after 7 minutes. So does it really matter?

Pardon, but the main reason I joined this forum in the first place were Ganchgrow's posts on statistics and sports. My personal favorite is the one he did about using Z-scores to determine a bettors success.

[Fiasco]

major in statistics

get a real job in the real world, use your free time to work on you're own mathematical models/systems and fine tune them while you put away every penny possible (bet 10 bucks a game for fun or whatever...) literally though, live alone and eat cheap and save save save... for as long as it takes for you to gather enough for an actual bankroll in addition to a specified amount set aside for when you run worse than imaginable... and over living expenses

after years and years if 1) you're model actual shows profit and 2) you have saved enough to have an actual professional bankroll
you can go talk to a cpa or whatever about you're possibilities of filing as a professional gambler (ill advised from what I hear, there's ways around having to file as such I believe) or you could always double major in stats and accounting and pass the cpa and earn a lot of money quicker and become a pro quicker

then you can quit your real life job for maybe 6 months to a year and take a shot...

if you do well keep it up if not, rinse and repeat the saving process/determine that professional gambling isn't for 99.99 percent of the world

I'm just a college kid though... what do I know about how one would actually go about becoming a pro...

in my eyes I think I'll take my shot as a semi-pro one of these days (and I mean like 10 years from now) after I do everything above... I'd rather be a cpa personally that gambles semi-professionally and still has a solid source of income if all goes to hell

[MonkeyF0cker]

Pardon, but the main reason I joined this forum in the first place were Ganchgrow's posts on statistics and sports. My personal favorite is the one he did about using Z-scores to determine a bettors success.

Umm. I was directing the OP to your post and speaking to him if you failed to recognize that...

[toastedbread01]

major in statistics

get a real job in the real world, use your free time to work on you're own mathematical models/systems and fine tune them while you put away every penny possible (bet 10 bucks a game for fun or whatever...) literally though, live alone and eat cheap and save save save... for as long as it takes for you to gather enough for an actual bankroll in addition to a specified amount set aside for when you run worse than imaginable... and over living expenses

after years and years if 1) you're model actual shows profit and 2) you have saved enough to have an actual professional bankroll
you can go talk to a cpa or whatever about you're possibilities of filing as a professional gambler (ill advised from what I hear, there's ways around having to file as such I believe) or you could always double major in stats and accounting and pass the cpa and earn a lot of money quicker and become a pro quicker

then you can quit your real life job for maybe 6 months to a year and take a shot...

if you do well keep it up if not, rinse and repeat the saving process/determine that professional gambling isn't for 99.99 percent of the world

I'm just a college kid though... what do I know about how one would actually go about becoming a pro...

in my eyes I think I'll take my shot as a semi-pro one of these days (and I mean like 10 years from now) after I do everything above... I'd rather be a cpa personally that gambles semi-professionally and still has a solid source of income if all goes to hell

With that kind of education, the main reason someone would become a pro is if they don't like a 9-5 schedule.

[toastedbread01]

Umm. I was directing the OP to your post and speaking to him if you failed to recognize that...

You said "youll" with me quoted, so I didn't realize that you were speaking in the abstract. Sorry.