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    brahmabull117
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    Is It Possible to make 100,000+ a year gambling on Sports?

    or will most books ban you before you can come close to that?

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    If you're betting enough to make this kind of money, the sports books will love you.

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    If your making that much your betting at multiple books. Pros have to shop for the best #

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    Yes, if start with 100k. It could be doubled esp. with Matchbook as an out.

    No, if starting with a few k.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridagolfer View Post
    If you're betting enough to make this kind of money, the sports books will love you.
    why do you say that?

    100 k is 10 k a month, which is about 300 dollars a day that you are winning. That's nothing that outrageous

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    Well Bookmaker and Pinnacle will each allow you to bet $50,000 on NFL sides so obviously if one was to bet the max and win 2 bets they would make $100,000

    With that said if you are questioning if you would be able to make $100,000+ a year betting the answer would clearly be not a chance

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpcat View Post
    Well Bookmaker and Pinnacle will each allow you to bet $50,000 on NFL sides so obviously if one was to bet the max and win 2 bets they would make $100,000 With that said if you are questioning if you would be able to make $100,000+ a year betting the answer would clearly be not a chance
    my question was that is it feasible to do it (do you guys here do it?)??


    I'm actually pretty confident in myself brah... I just started out (have been doing it for 2 weeks and have been betting at around 65%)

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    Quote Originally Posted by brahmabull117 View Post
    my question was that is it feasible to do it (do you guys here do it?)??


    I'm actually pretty confident in myself brah... I just started out (have been doing it for 2 weeks and have been betting at around 65%)
    Guys who understand mathematics are capable of accomplishing this, guys who think that because they are hitting 65% after 20 bets on a 50/50 proposition that this will carry on into the future are a bookmakers wet dream

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpcat View Post
    Guys who understand mathematics are capable of accomplishing this, guys who think that because they are hitting 65% after 20 bets on a 50/50 proposition that this will carry on into the future are a bookmakers wet dream
    I have actually hit about 65% on 140 bets so far (I do 10 bets a day)

    and what do you mean understand mathematics?? using math to determine the outcome of games?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpcat View Post
    Guys who understand mathematics are capable of accomplishing this, guys who think that because they are hitting 65% after 20 bets on a 50/50 proposition that this will carry on into the future are a bookmakers wet dream
    Not really a bookmakers wet dream because they will bust out and lose so much confidence that they quit gambling.

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    If you spread it around to several books it is possible but I'd expect to see your limits cut if you hit a single book for that much in a short time period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eonizuka View Post
    If you spread it around to several books it is possible but I'd expect to see your limits cut if you hit a single book for that much in a short time period.
    there is at least 8-10 decent books out there no?


    make 2 grand a month on each book - that's 20 grand a month and over 200 grand a year


    no reason to think that a book would cut you/limit your wager if you are making 2 grand a month

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    yes u can just use different books look at richkas he does it under the radar

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    has Pinny ever limited people for winning large amounts like this? i've always been curious

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    Sure why not? Spread it around and move to vegas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Masu485 View Post
    has Pinny ever limited people for winning large amounts like this? i've always been curious
    it would be bad business to do that
    they make enough $ they wouldnt cut out 1 person making over 10k a month...their bringing in milllions a month

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    plenty of people wagering thousands of dollars in vegas

    why would the online books care?

    the more $ people bet is what they want anyways

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    Yes but more likely to lose 100k

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    To win consistently its hard because you need rock hard discipline. Never chase and never get frustrated.

    VARIANCE. You gonna hate this.

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    i would bet the #1 capper on the sbr forum could not come close to making 100g a year. year after year after year. sure someone could make two 50,000 bets and win both. no one on this forum is making 300 a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. there are probably less than a 100 people in the world that could make 300 a day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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    if you have a big enough BR then yeah....

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    Quote Originally Posted by brxbmbers42 View Post
    i would bet the #1 capper on the sbr forum could not come close to making 100g a year. year after year after year. sure someone could make two 50,000 bets and win both. no one on this forum is making 300 a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. there are probably less than a 100 people in the world that could make 300 a day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
    I agree with the second part. making $100K is not hard. But to do it every single year consistently is hard.

    You don't however need to win $300 everyday though. You just need to be consistent and win the $100k. Some people win $100k in 3 months and maybe take the rest of the year off. But for us degenerates.... it might be tricky lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by brahmabull117 View Post
    my question was that is it feasible to do it (do you guys here do it?)??


    I'm actually pretty confident in myself brah... I just started out (have been doing it for 2 weeks and have been betting at around 65%)
    could this be the ghost of straightwinners???

    Just askin'...

    Doc

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    Quote Originally Posted by brxbmbers42 View Post
    i would bet the #1 capper on the sbr forum could not come close to making 100g a year. year after year after year. sure someone could make two 50,000 bets and win both. no one on this forum is making 300 a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. there are probably less than a 100 people in the world that could make 300 a day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

    This post is spot on...Think about it if anybody on here is doing it then why they wasting their time on this site..Im sure people do it but they have alot of money at their means to throw done

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    Best way to end up with a small fortune in sports betting is to start off with a large fortune.

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    You could do it with almost no bankroll with a clean slate from the books, but after they kick and limit you probably impossible without 50K+ roll

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    start with $100 and win 12 bets in a row going all in every time at -110. You'll have over 100,000

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    Start on a betting exchange 'middling' or 'chasing steam' (something most books frown heavily upon) public favourites....

    Its only a few % per transaction but with enough liquidity in the market i see no reason y $100k per year with relatively low risk is not attainable...GL

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    only liars and very lucky folks .

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    Good money management, patience, variance tolerance and alot of spare cash is what you need..,.oh yea and ALOT of luck

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    Through an exchange only, bookmakers won't continually take and lose large amounts.

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    if problems, use more than one bookie, simple

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    Quote Originally Posted by rem sleep View Post
    start with $100 and win 12 bets in a row going all in every time at -110. You'll have over 100,000

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    I guess it's feasible if you can find an inefficient sports market and use the exchange.

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    There are numerous posters that make 100,000+ on this site from sportsbetting........................... .........

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