A beautiful sports betting memory

[Mudcat]

It started mid-April last year. Every day Mansion exchange would post these huge offers on baseball moneylines that were way off from the consensus. I mean not only were they arbs, they were often very big arbs - with $100,000+ available.

Remember that?

OMG it was beautiful. I got so I was waiting at my computer everyday right around 11:30 am and suddenly these amazing numbers would start appearing on the board. And it was BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - picking out arbs as fast as I could type them out. It was this fantastic frenzy.

It was like BOOM - 50 dollars - BOOM - 35 dollars - BOOM - 90 dollars - BOOM - 240 dollars - BOOM - 40 dollars - BOOM - 150 dollars . . .

It was not uncommon to reject a 30-40 dollar arb because there was bound to be something better on the board.

I could only work for about an hour every day because I would end up all-in at all my accounts just because of MLB arbs with Mansion.

And of course it couldn't last. Soon it got so the other books were also sitting at their computers at 11:30 every day waiting to see how they were going to adjust to the Mansion offers. And then the offers themselves slowly became more conservative. By mid-June the extreme madness was over.

But man that was something. I'm sure a few people here got in on that.

Seems like a dream.

[tacomax]

Yup, those indeed were "the days".

[bigboydan]

way back when Mansion was giving away money to many people.

[tacomax]

Those free bets on soccer a few weeks ago weren't really the same, were they?

[Mudcat]

Remembering more detail, it was even more dream-like because Mansion was not as well known and trusted as they are now. So at the end of every day, after all the scores were in, I would withdraw a big chunk of my funds to Neteller.

Why not? It was free. Mansion was an upstart book - and they were clearly losing money; they were on the paying end of those arbs much more often than not - I didn't want tens of thousands of dollars there all the time.

Then the next day those fantastic numbers would appear again and I would redeposit the bundle.

I kept expecting to get some kind of notice to quit farting around but it never happened (and, to this day, all Neteller payouts are free at Mansion).

I'm getting all misty just remembering it.