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    Serious question - does anybody actually win at sports betting at a 55-60+% clip??

    Does anybody here have a thread showing their plays where they consistently win at a clip around 55-60% year after year?


    Billy walters claims to be some sports gambling genius and his posted plays barely win at like 52-53%. I'm not talking about someone who picks all games winning 55-60% ATS - obviously that's impossible. I'm talking about someone who picks 2-3 games every sunday and wins at a 55-60% clip


    and I'm talking about standard bets - not arbing, middling, steam chasing, any of that nonsense
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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    Yes

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    Please get a new handle bear

    who is bear?


    I'm not another poster

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post

    huh??

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    What were your plays today SEAWEED?

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    I do better than 60%. But I play a lot of MLs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
    I do better than 60%. But I play a lot of MLs.
    I'm talking about 60% when playing -110 plays


    if you're avg play is -200, then you would have to be winning around 75%

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    Quote Originally Posted by EGrecu View Post
    I'm talking about 60% when playing -110 plays


    if you're avg play is -200, then you would have to be winning around 75%
    No one hits 60% long term. 55% is possible by a few.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyBacon View Post
    No one hits 60% long term. 55% is possible by a few.

    show me evidence of someone who consistently wins 55%

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    Quote Originally Posted by EGrecu View Post
    show me evidence of someone who consistently wins 55%
    I have a Bowl thread here every year and hit atleast 65%. I've won fairly big like 6 of the last 7 years. NC with Trubisky fk'd me that one year vs Stanford in the Sun Bowl. The key to sportsbetting is the same as poker. Action junkies bet too many games and play too many hands in poker. Be selective like a hit man. They don't spray the crowd. They find their mark and then off the MF dead


    So am I smart enough to wager only on cfb? No, I guess I'm an action junkie too to a certain extent

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    Quote Originally Posted by EGrecu View Post
    show me evidence of someone who consistently wins 55%

    Billy Walters

    Billy Walters’ success and acumen in the high-stakes gambling world has shown that it is possible to win at sports betting and be profitable. However, Walters only won 57% of the time, which means there was also a ton of money that he lost. Losing is a part of the process, and it happens all the time to even the most seasoned professionals!

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    95% don’t

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyBacon View Post
    Billy Walters

    Billy Walters’ success and acumen in the high-stakes gambling world has shown that it is possible to win at sports betting and be profitable. However, Walters only won 57% of the time, which means there was also a ton of money that he lost. Losing is a part of the process, and it happens all the time to even the most seasoned professionals!



    57% my ass

    look at his website. It's way closer to 50%... many years he loses money
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    Quote Originally Posted by KiDBaZkiT View Post
    Yes I do and have for years.
    show proof? do you have a thread?

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    Billy Walters only won when bookmakers technology was not that great, once it changes he got destroyed

    Billy Walters only had money because of a illegal activities and bookmaking or should I say that was the bulk of his money

    Can’t beat them anymore because of technology And most books staying within market numbers unlike years ago

    I’m the authority on this subject

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Billy Walters only won when bookmakers technology was not that great, once it changes he got destroyed

    Billy Walters only had money because of a illegal activities and bookmaking or should I say that was the bulk of his money

    Can’t beat them anymore because of technology And most books staying within market numbers unlike years ago

    I’m the authority on this subject
    he's got all his plays on his website - multiple years, he's in the negative

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    He is a clown

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    Quote Originally Posted by EGrecu View Post
    Does anybody here have a thread showing their plays where they consistently win at a clip around 55-60% year after year?


    Billy walters claims to be some sports gambling genius and his posted plays barely win at like 52-53%. I'm not talking about someone who picks all games winning 55-60% ATS - obviously that's impossible. I'm talking about someone who picks 2-3 games every sunday and wins at a 55-60% clip


    and I'm talking about standard bets - not arbing, middling, steam chasing, any of that nonsense
    There is no one who does this. There are definitely people who could, but doing it this way would mean severely limiting their profits. So they do it differently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EGrecu View Post
    57% my ass

    look at his website. It's way closer to 50%... many years he loses money
    Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. Neither of us know. But we do know the entire industry was terrified of him for a couple of decades.

    Brock hit 60% posted losers over a lonnng stretch. That should count for something. Not easy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyBacon View Post
    Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. Neither of us know. But we do know the entire industry was terrified of him for a couple of decades.

    I guarantee you he was doing illegal sh*t


    very very hard to win straight up at 55-60% on sports betting

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    ....
    Last edited by EGrecu; 10-25-21 at 08:20 AM.

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    bump

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    Of course! A bunch of us do! That's why we have all this time to post on here.... we all quit our jobs and became professional sports bettors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JacketFan81 View Post
    Of course! A bunch of us do! That's why we have all this time to post on here.... we all quit our jobs and became professional sports bettors.

    no but seriously - is there anybody with a posted record of winning?

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    Nobody hits 60%. 56% is possible by the best in the world.

    As an average bettor, you can hit 53% if you are really good. 54% is pretty much top level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger T. Bannon View Post
    Nobody hits 60%. 56% is possible by the best in the world.

    As an average bettor, you can hit 53% if you are really good. 54% is pretty much top level.
    This

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    there are people that win 55% but it's not on stuff like full game nfl spreads

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    Always remember the small percentage of Winners do everything

    They bet almost every sport imaginable looking for edges and don’t know one player on any team


    They take every bonus and every perk

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    Also Billy Walters does not sell picks. Someone is pretending to be Billy Walters.

    Billy Walters is also not actually a gambler. He is a manager of gamblers. He chooses other people's picks. He cannot pick games on his own.

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    Billy Walters is not in the game anymore the whole spectrum change everybody deals market lines

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    If you are a high volume bettor 55-60% is more than enough to make a lot of money - if you aren't a high volume bettor the answer is no. Its obviously easier to hit at a higher percentage the fewer bets and more selective you are.

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    This isn't proof of anything but this goes to show you how rare it is for a person to hit 55% or more, even in a contest with several thousand people. The first link below is for Covers NCAA Basketball contest for last season. The person below ranked #1 for Over/Under out of 4402 people and he didn't even hit 55%.

    https://contests.covers.com/kingofco...c-ac770085325c


    Check this guy out. He's ranked #1 for MLB Over/Under this year and he's not even hitting 54%

    https://contests.covers.com/kingofco...b-ace000a35dde


    Here's the #1 ranked guy Against The Spread in College Basketball for last year. He too hit less than 55%

    https://contests.covers.com/kingofco...b-acc800b5efae


    They're all pretty much like that on Cover's contests. And then if you go check on their past seasons you can see that people don't win from season to season. You might be thinking... well... if people were that good... why would they be wasting their time on Covers? That's a fair point. But hitting 55% is HARD. Anyone that thinks it's easy is either lying... or they haven't been doing it for very long, or they are FAR FAR smarter than I am.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milwaukee mike View Post
    there are people that win 55% but it's not on stuff like full game nfl spreads
    Wrong. Any line can be beaten but the books baseball lines are much sharper than football lines. The football season is very short, so the books numbers are never that good for football in most cases. 17 games isn't a big enough sample size to build formulas or models that can predict outcomes at sufficient rates.

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