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  • torrentzflow
    SBR High Roller
    • 01-08-14
    • 221

    #911
    okay i skimmed through the other market seems it might be an error with the names, so probably an error that will be canceled. however i will probably be freerolled since it is a long shot. if it wins canceled and if it loses they will keep the money.
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    • torrentzflow
      SBR High Roller
      • 01-08-14
      • 221

      #912
      however i think i could prove this is not a naming error. i will get back and post later how this turns out. im too worked up about it and dont want a dispute or my account closed. they are real pricks about this stuff. had f1 bets canceled that were barely off market compared to some random square ass shop with them being the only one with this market open. did not fight because i dont want to be flagged in anyway. thumbsdown.gif
      Last edited by torrentzflow; 03-03-14, 08:34 PM.
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      • Vaughany
        SBR Aristocracy
        • 03-07-10
        • 45563

        #913
        Ever see this? Martin Kampmann on Jason Someville's podcast thing...

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        • NunyaBidness
          SBR Hall of Famer
          • 07-26-09
          • 9345

          #914
          Damn, UFC fighters are so broke they have to play .10-.25 nl
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          • Vaughany
            SBR Aristocracy
            • 03-07-10
            • 45563

            #915
            lol yeah
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            • Grimes2014
              SBR Rookie
              • 02-24-14
              • 2

              #916
              Originally posted by NunyaBidness
              Damn, UFC fighters are so broke they have to play .10-.25 nl
              Also has to play on a site with about half the traffic of WSOP to appease the Ferttias.
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              • marzwoody
                SBR MVP
                • 01-03-14
                • 3902

                #917
                Originally posted by NunyaBidness
                I torrent occasionally, dude, we're friends on a torrent site!

                Yeah, I hope if Marz tailed me it was only on Lawrence and Gravity. Would definitely be worth the lost money.

                Lawrence having her time already is definitely the best argument, these guys love to pick who deserves the awards based on things other than who did the best job. I read some academy members justifying their picks, and some of them were pretty catty.
                Lmao you have problems dude strange to know i affected you so much over the internet, only a very small play sorry to disappoint you. well atleast i know why the others kiss your ass and run to your defense on this forum, its because of your oscar picks! keep em coming nuns!
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                • NunyaBidness
                  SBR Hall of Famer
                  • 07-26-09
                  • 9345

                  #918
                  Just remember when you spend that money who gave it you.

                  That's right. I FEED you, niqqa.
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                  • marzwoody
                    SBR MVP
                    • 01-03-14
                    • 3902

                    #919
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                    • marzwoody
                      SBR MVP
                      • 01-03-14
                      • 3902

                      #920
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                      • Ron_Paul_2012
                        SBR MVP
                        • 01-31-13
                        • 3953

                        #921
                        Since were on the subject of entertainment. Has anyone here seen "Black Sails"? It's a new series on Stars. It's actually quite good. The only other show that I currently watch is "Helix" which is decent.
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                        • Vaughany
                          SBR Aristocracy
                          • 03-07-10
                          • 45563

                          #922
                          Originally posted by Ron_Paul_2012
                          Since were on the subject of entertainment. Has anyone here seen "Black Sails"? It's a new series on Stars. It's actually quite good. The only other show that I currently watch is "Helix" which is decent.
                          like a pirate version of spartacus?

                          you dont watch True Detective?
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                          • Ron_Paul_2012
                            SBR MVP
                            • 01-31-13
                            • 3953

                            #923
                            Originally posted by Vaughany
                            like a pirate version of spartacus?

                            you dont watch True Detective?
                            I'm about to watch the first episode right now. I'll get back to you after I watch it.
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                            • mirinquads
                              SBR MVP
                              • 04-22-13
                              • 3927

                              #924
                              Recommend reading/listning to the The Yellow King; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSYjHHmwbRI before watching, its riddled with references to it. Too bad that particular narrator sucks.
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                              • PunisherIND
                                SBR MVP
                                • 02-24-11
                                • 4980

                                #925
                                Originally posted by mirinquads
                                Recommend reading/listning to the The Yellow King; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSYjHHmwbRI before watching, its riddled with references to it. Too bad that particular narrator sucks.
                                interesting. i'm current on the show, so i might have to read this after the finale and then rewatch.

                                fantastic show, btw. its too bad that mcconahuey and harrelson wont be in the next season.
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                                • Vaughany
                                  SBR Aristocracy
                                  • 03-07-10
                                  • 45563

                                  #926
                                  Pizzolato wont be directing neither
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                                  • ghost kid
                                    SBR Sharp
                                    • 09-23-08
                                    • 280

                                    #927
                                    This guy might be on to something, some big clues I missed on first viewing:
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                                    • Vaughany
                                      SBR Aristocracy
                                      • 03-07-10
                                      • 45563

                                      #928
                                      Originally posted by ghost kid
                                      This guy might be on to something, some big clues I missed on first viewing:
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zTSDFiI24
                                      Haha very good
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                                      • marzwoody
                                        SBR MVP
                                        • 01-03-14
                                        • 3902

                                        #929
                                        Originally posted by Vaughany
                                        Pizzolato wont be directing neither
                                        Will he still be writing though? because hes the sole creator. if not i can see this show going way downhill. without mcconahuey and harrelson and the great writing it would just be another shit CSI type show. i mean who the penetrate would they even get to even come close to living up to the leads of season 1? it would have to be someone like bryan cranston.
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                                        • Vaughany
                                          SBR Aristocracy
                                          • 03-07-10
                                          • 45563

                                          #930
                                          Originally posted by marzwoody
                                          Will he still be writing though? because hes the sole creator. if not i can see this show going way downhill. without mcconahuey and harrelson and the great writing it would just be another shit CSI type show. i mean who the penetrate would they even get to even come close to living up to the leads of season 1? it would have to be someone like bryan cranston.
                                          no idea why I even said that! Pizzolato is staying on for second series
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                                          • marzwoody
                                            SBR MVP
                                            • 01-03-14
                                            • 3902

                                            #931
                                            Originally posted by Vaughany
                                            no idea why I even said that! Pizzolato is staying on for second series
                                            Good. in retrospect maybe i should of used google before the rant, but oh well. if pizzalatos staying on i have faith it will be good.
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                                            • getlucky2win
                                              SBR MVP
                                              • 01-14-12
                                              • 1116

                                              #932
                                              cary fukunaga directed this season and wont b back for season 2. but I thnk as long as the writing is gd from Pizzolato the show will b good
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                                              • Vaughany
                                                SBR Aristocracy
                                                • 03-07-10
                                                • 45563

                                                #933
                                                hmmm dont think it can top ** and Woody's performances tho
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                                                • getlucky2win
                                                  SBR MVP
                                                  • 01-14-12
                                                  • 1116

                                                  #934
                                                  theres plenty of gd actors out there. woody and matt r gr8. that's y I watched the show 2 begin with. but if the story suckd ida quit watchin it alrdy
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                                                  • NunyaBidness
                                                    SBR Hall of Famer
                                                    • 07-26-09
                                                    • 9345

                                                    #935




                                                    Touts gonna tout.
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                                                    • Vaughany
                                                      SBR Aristocracy
                                                      • 03-07-10
                                                      • 45563

                                                      #936
                                                      Lol steve stevens as in billy idol?!
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                                                      • getlucky2win
                                                        SBR MVP
                                                        • 01-14-12
                                                        • 1116

                                                        #937
                                                        Did Mmaob even hav a play on this card. I thnk luca only had 1 last two events. These dumb fcks can't even tout right. How u gonna sell picks then not hav any. There was tons of value the last 2 wks
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                                                        • Vaughany
                                                          SBR Aristocracy
                                                          • 03-07-10
                                                          • 45563

                                                          #938
                                                          Originally posted by getlucky2win
                                                          Did Mmaob even hav a play on this card. I thnk luca only had 1 last two events. These dumb fcks can't even tout right. How u gonna sell picks then not hav any. There was tons of value the last 2 wks
                                                          yes they lost again but it was a "free play". Their initial play related to the Delorme fight, so after tht got cancelled they gave out a MJ and Brad Scott double
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                                                          • Vaughany
                                                            SBR Aristocracy
                                                            • 03-07-10
                                                            • 45563

                                                            #939
                                                            Originally posted by Ron_Paul_2012
                                                            Since were on the subject of entertainment. Has anyone here seen "Black Sails"? It's a new series on Stars. It's actually quite good. The only other show that I currently watch is "Helix" which is decent.
                                                            Saw 1st ep of Black Sails last night - seems alright, will watch next ep tonight. Main younger guy Luke Arnold is a bit of a douche tho - got a face I'd love to slap. His Auzzie accent randomly appears at times as well!

                                                            Hannah New is in it tho, smoooking
                                                            Last edited by Vaughany; 03-10-14, 10:00 AM.
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                                                            • NunyaBidness
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                                                              • 07-26-09
                                                              • 9345

                                                              #940


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                                                              • Vaughany
                                                                SBR Aristocracy
                                                                • 03-07-10
                                                                • 45563

                                                                #941
                                                                Meet Darin Notaro: star of CNBC reality series

                                                                Posted: August 30, 2013 in General
                                                                Tags: CNBC, Darin Notaro, Money Talks, NQA, Steve Stevens, W.G. Ramirez

                                                                Darin Notaro, aka Steve Stevens, will appear on a CNBC reality series Money Talks on Sept. 10.
                                                                By W.G. Ramirez
                                                                Part 1 of 2
                                                                Darin Notaro says he was making more than a quarter-million dollars a year before he graduated high school. And that, he adds, was surprisingly his downfall.
                                                                “My senior year in high school I made $300,000. You’re a young kid, you feel like nobody can really tell you nothing. You get a sense of power around town. People like ya, the girls, you feel a little powerful; but boy there’s a big price to pay with that. I was blind; you’re absolutely right about that.”
                                                                Notaro is a two-time convicted felon whose sports-betting reality series “Money Talks” is set to debut Sept. 10 on CNBC, and he’s hoping will pique sports-gambling fans even more than it has online critics across the sports-betting industry.
                                                                Yet while everyone from journalists, to talk-show hosts, to handicappers, to industry pundits who he said have no business wagging their fingers in his face since they seemingly operate with impunity while appearing to walk on high moral ground have been boisterous, the only person who’s publicly remained silent all this time is Notaro.
                                                                Until now.
                                                                After spending a couple of hours with Notaro at a local Italian deli - yes, at times it felt like the only thing missing was the Godfather theme and a gun hidden behind the men’s room toilet – it felt more like an interview with the character from a different motion picture: “8 Mile.” You remember the rap battle near the end of the movie, when Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, the character portrayed by Eminem, does the unthinkable by turning the spotlight on himself and freestyling negative rhymes so his nemesis couldn’t?
                                                                Knowingly being recorded, Notaro was candid about his negative past and had no qualms acknowledging and discussing what everyone in the sports betting and handicapping community has been clamoring about since news hit the Internet and spread like wildfire about the show. Quite frankly, you’d think Notaro needed a white Ford Bronco the way everyone has been calling for his head, from social media sites, to sports-betting blogs and forums, to newspaper columns, to radio talk shows.
                                                                Then again, when you know someone has been convicted for being part of a telemarketing scam that bilked thousands of dollars from elderly people, the question undoubtedly has to be asked: “Why in the hell would CNBC – a satellite and cable television business news channel – give the felon-card holder his own TV series?”
                                                                It’s a question the journalistic community had to ask the network, and why it would endorse a television show that features a guy whose original two-minute trailer revealed a better-than 70 percent winning percentage for his players while calling himself a “well-known” handicapper, when most of the talking heads had no clue about Steve Stevens – Notaro’s alter ego in his office and on his show.
                                                                Well, with the college football season underway, and the NFL set to start next Thursday, let’s meet them both: Notaro, and Stevens…
                                                                • REALITY, WHAT A CONCEPT

                                                                When one of your best friends is Floyd Mayweather and your office is just suites away from the world champion’s boxing gym, your worlds are bound to gravitate toward one another. Notaro and Mayweather met long before the sports tout suggested the boxer move his headquarters into the same plaza in Chinatown, but the fact Notaro is as flamboyant in his world as Pretty Boy is in his, it’s easy to see why the two are good friends.
                                                                So when Mayweather’s production team that makes the documentary 24/7 before each one of his fights listened to an idea of bringing cameras into the sports-tout world for a reality series about a phone-room operation, and Pretty Boy gave his crew the stamp of approval to work with Notaro, the sports-tout business owner said the right people thought it had enough sizzle to take to networks.
                                                                “Floyd is just a good friend of mine,” Notaro said. “He introduced me to the guys who did 24/7, they put the show together. Floyd isn’t looking for anything from me or anything from my show. He’s a good friend of mine and that’s pretty much where we stand. I don’t even brag about the famous athletes or the richest athletes, or this, that or the other. I’m not that type of guy. I’ve made it this far without doing any of that. CNBC just isn’t putting crap on the air. I’ve earned their trust and confidence and gave ‘em a show that they’re backing 110 percent. And I hope America does too.”
                                                                With three shows in the bank, the pilot episode is set to air Sept. 10 at 10 p.m., while production toward 13 more episodes will begin the same day as the debut. Notaro said the misconception about the show is that everyone believes it’s about him handicapping games; but in reality, it’s about the sports-tout business.
                                                                The difference, Notaro said, is he is “a tout, … need to get that clear – I’m a tout. The show isn’t just about me and picking games. The home base is pretty much our office. But then there are five characters you go off and follow … it’s a reality show.”
                                                                Notaro believes he is injecting adrenaline into the industry, while his critics believe CNBC is about to shed light on someone who practices unethical telemarketing, and not the world of sports betting.
                                                                And that is where the controversy begins…
                                                                • A TELEMARKETING FRAUD

                                                                In 1995, Notaro was one of several arrested for wire fraud and aiding and abetting in a telemarketing scam that targeted elderly people. He paid $12,230 in restitution and served 18 months in federal prison. Four years later, while on probation for those charges, he said he was arrested and charged with violating his probation by telemarketing without a telemarketer’s license. He paid a fine with the state and went back to prison for a year and one day. He is adamant a story reported on Wagerminds.com that stated he was convicted three times is incorrect – it was only twice. And as for the use of another alias – Darin Sasser – Notaro said that’s simply his mother’s last name and there was never any attempt at being disingenuous.
                                                                Nevertheless, Notaro is a convicted felon and has plenty to answer for if he’s going to appear on a financial television network to advise people how to invest their money in sports betting. Like how and why would you get involved in such a racket, and why did you return after once convicted?
                                                                “When you’re seeing seven, eight thousand dollars a week, you’re definitely blinded by the money,” Notaro said. “But as I got older and realized what happened and what we did and how you sold elderly people, yeah, it actually hurt my heart and blew my mind.
                                                                “Did I learn from it? It made me a whole different person, it made me a better person. When I look back at it, I think there’s still guys that I’ve heard are doing it to this day, makes me want to beat their ass to be honest with you. I worked at a company I didn’t own, I was a salesman … I went to prison for it. Young kid, got caught up in something, made some bad decisions. I paid a price, yeah it was very hurtful to me. Changed who I am, made me a better person.”
                                                                Asked if he ever considered the fact one of those elderly people could have been his own grandparent, Notaro became animated and emotional in his response.
                                                                “Beyond a shadow of a doubt,” he said. “It makes me sick, don’t like it at all. I got older and realized I was in a racket, a business that targeted elderly people and at that time you don’t really look at it as targeting people like that because you’re just doing your job at what people told you to do and I was a good salesman cause I was an energetic kid.
                                                                “But I sat there as a young man doing my time and paid a price that would put me in a situation to where I wouldn’t even think of doing something that I did 15, 20 years ago.”
                                                                His detractors believe he’s simply jumped right back into a world of unethical telemarketing, this time with his targets being naïve sports bettors that buy into a sales pitch that could be littered with unsubstantiated claims. And Notaro said he fully understands there might be legitimate critics who will question CNBC giving a platform to a convicted felon with his kind of checkered past. But at the same time, he also gives a Michael Jordan-shrug to those who are questioning Money Talks, yet still operate phone rooms or sports services of some kind under the same guise they claim he’s operating under.
                                                                “People are always looking for the bad,” he said. “But at the same time I paid my price for that … and I’ve done everything that they’ve asked to do … and I’ve worked hard and gave blood, sweat and tears to build this business.”
                                                                Which leads us to Steve Stevens

                                                                Once released from prison, and needing to feed his appetite for making stacks of cash, Notaro was introduced to the sports-tout business by close friends who were working at a couple of the better-known telemarketing rooms at the time.
                                                                “I knew there was another telemarketing racket to where people were making good money, so I was looking for another gig where I could use my sales talent to become successful in something because as a kid I felt like that was all I knew,” Notaro said.
                                                                After working in a couple of sales rooms in Las Vegas, he eventually opened up a one-man office in Northwest Las Vegas and started to learn the nuances of the business. Eventually, he ended up at 4004 Schiff Drive – where he currently operates out of – and says he’s been operating under the same business license for nearly 13 years. According to filings with the Secretary of State, Notaro is the President, Secretary and Treasurer of Executive VIP Services International, which operates VIP Sports Las Vegas.
                                                                “You’ve got boiler rooms, and you’ve got licensed and bonded rooms – people that do everything on the up and up; I take pride in being that person, always have,” Notaro said. “When you compare me to Vin Diesel (referring to the movie Boiler Room), it’s hurtful. This isn’t a movie, I’ve worked my ass off legitimately to build this. I’ve never been a guy to market and advertise. I’ve never advertised ’72 percent, call my phone,’ like I’m a fraud or lying to people. I’ve never advertised or ran ads in my life.”
                                                                Maybe not, but the original “sizzle reel” made by Left Turn Productions – the same production company that made Mayweather’s documentary ’30 Days in May’ – promoted an outrageously big winning percentage by “Stevens” and riled up nearly everyone that decided to voice their opinion, including Las Vegas Review Journal columnist John L. Smith, who wrote two columns – one that introduced the upcoming series, and a second in which he interviewed a longtime gambling consultant and math and probability expert. Notaro admitted the publicized percentage(s) were Hollywood stunts gone bad for promotional purposes, and acknowledged he has not hit that percentage during his time as a sports tout. But he too got riled up – more than any other time during the scrutiny he’s received – since his show, according to him, is about his life and the sports-tout business operation, and not winning percentages or handicapping.
                                                                “That was exactly a clip from my TV show,” Notaro said. “That wasn’t me making a website and then going out and spending money advertising that I’m 72 percent. Even though people do that, I’ve never advertised in my life. My show is not about percentages. … My show is basically about bringing you in (my) world.
                                                                “The only people right now that are really bashing me are guys in the industry; guys that probably want a TV show or guys that used to be able to pay for advertising and have people call them and make millions of dollars. Those days are gone, so there’s gonna be guys a little upset that I’ve landed a show on CNBC when advertising in this business is so hard to come by because the day of spending a million dollars to get three back in return are over. And it’s fine for people to bash me, but I just want a fair shake. I want people to watch the show and give me a fair shake because they’re going to love it.”
                                                                • MONEY TALKS

                                                                And so, a sports-tout business reality series that has generated as much controversy and drama within the sports-betting world as Miley Cyrus’ twerk session on last week’s Video Music Awards is set to debut on CNBC in a little less than two weeks, on Sept. 10.
                                                                Darin Notaro, aka Steve Stevens, makes his debut on CNBC’s Money Talks on Sept. 10.
                                                                “I’m very proud in what I’ve done and how I’ve succeeded and NBC is all about giving me a fair shake,” Notaro said. “They’re completely aware of everything and thank God for them because they believe that somebody changes. And I’ve really changed into a different person that people should be excited to see.”
                                                                The 40-year-old Las Vegas-native said viewers will see him actually get on the phone and deal with customers personally. Notaro said when he makes his sales pitch, it’s always about a big game. He doesn’t shy away from the fact it takes a hardcore sales pitch to get someone on the other end of the telephone to agree to send him money. But he also added he has never used his friendships with Mayweather or other professional athletes he’s met or knows because they live in Las Vegas during the off-season. Two reasons, according to Notaro. One, he said, is because he wants his players knowing they’re playing with Steve Stevens – and he’s the guy making them money, not his friends. And two, he’d never cross the line and incriminate the professional-team athletes he knows by comingling their names in the sports-betting business. Perhaps, maybe, that would be proof of one lesson learned about doing business the right way.
                                                                “I don’t get information from locker rooms,” Notaro said. “I know NBA players, I know Major League players, I know all that. I don’t get any information from any of them. I don’t claim to be some guy that knows a guy – none of that. I’m Darin Notaro, I’m a family man, I’m a good guy. I’ve got a lot of friends and family, I like to eat good, I hang out. I’ve done it all. I’m born and raised in Las Vegas, and I pretty much raised hell early.
                                                                “But Steve Stevens is a guy that’s all about his business, he’s all about making money, he’s all about feeding his family and he’s all about putting all his problems at the door when he goes into work. That’s what a master closer does, they focus 110 percent on the business and give it all they’ve got during the business shift. I don’t get paid unless (my customers) do… the biggest sale is getting the guy to trust you, then showing him results; that’s the hardest part. I’ve built my foundation from the bottom up. I do outbound sales. Convince people to give me the opportunity to showcase my talent, then my games back it up.”
                                                                This, according to him, is what we’re going to see on Money Talks; and then some.
                                                                “When these guys understand that I’m bringing viewers into the world of gaming as a whole, it’s not a competition,” Notaro said. “I’m bringing people into our world, letting ‘em see it, exposing the world to it on a stock market level and letting people know there’s another option besides the stock market. I’m not telling you to stop playing stocks, but there’s another option. And a damn good one, too.
                                                                “Everything I do is on the up and up and I try to give you everything I’ve got. As long as I win more than I lose, that’s all that matters.”
                                                                Whether or not the show’s transparency will reveal that much remains to be seen. For now, Notaro and CNBC are betting they have a winner before the NFL season has even started.
                                                                READ PART 1 of this series

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                                                                • NunyaBidness
                                                                  SBR Hall of Famer
                                                                  • 07-26-09
                                                                  • 9345

                                                                  #942
                                                                  Sports betting and handicapping forum: discuss picks, odds, and predictions for upcoming games and results on latest bets.


                                                                  Clown parade here. Enjoy.
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                                                                  • Vaughany
                                                                    SBR Aristocracy
                                                                    • 03-07-10
                                                                    • 45563

                                                                    #943
                                                                    Hahha
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                                                                    • NunyaBidness
                                                                      SBR Hall of Famer
                                                                      • 07-26-09
                                                                      • 9345

                                                                      #944


                                                                      Might as well try to take a billion.
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                                                                      • Vaughany
                                                                        SBR Aristocracy
                                                                        • 03-07-10
                                                                        • 45563

                                                                        #945
                                                                        Is it +EV?
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