Bet limit reduced

[tomcowley]

The best play by far is to let the retard troll live peacefully in fantasy land.

[Chemi]

If you have gotten "smarter" by beating books to new numbers, thus setting up your arbitrage, they will not take kindly to you.

In their world (lala world) this is "cheating".

If you can originate you have a much better chance of sticking around.

Thanks for all the replies... looks like I need to mix a little bet to "disguise" myself... but won't it seem suspicious that I place a little small bets and then a huge one on a bet which price will change 30 sec later, and this occurs every day?

Also since my limits got reduced drastically, looks like I have to open another account and research how not to get detected, although this is another topic altogether...

[Chemi]

you say you are winning between 1-5%...a bet but are trying to recoup losses?Which is it? Are you winning 1-5%, or trying to recoup losses?

I was once a reckless gambler and placed bets based on gut feeling... lost too much as a result in the past... now I'm trying to be more disciplined and focus only on arb, and have been winning some back ever since, although I'm still in the red overall...


and kiwi, thanks for the link!

[cobra_king]

Thanks for all the replies... looks like I need to mix a little bet to "disguise" myself... but won't it seem suspicious that I place a little small bets and then a huge one on a bet which price will change 30 sec later, and this occurs every day?

Disguising it like this won't matter. If you continue to chase steam the way you do, you will be limited period! Especially at the smaller books.

[armando]

Things have been going well until recently where 1 sportsbook account was closed for being "unprofitable", and 2 others reduced my betting limit drastically to about $20-$40 only (when I could bet hundreds previously).

I dont understand how a book can tell you an account is "unprofitable", the little I know is that a book makes money out of every possible outcome in an event, with the comission better known as juice, with help of their system they balance the amount of money bet for each outcome.

By being "unprofitable" it means that there cant be a situation where the bettor can win and book takes its comision and everybody wins.

I can understand when a book limits you because of the balance of bet they have to watch out for but closing your account and calling it unprofitable makes no sense to me.

[in play, run(s)]

Justin is more likely to be thinking of multiplying value though. Don't like the variance on parlays myself, but there's nothing wrong with them in theory.

That's interesting. I know about that theory too, and it sounds good, but I feel the same like you. For some time I randomly created double or treble parlays of all my bets for one evening to see what happened, but after 20 days I ended up in the red despite more than 50% of my picks were correct. Over years, I occasionally have had all of my 10-15 single bets won in one evening, but it never happened when I played parlays. I guess that's just some kind of Murphy's law.

It's also interesting to note that some books have a lot higher limits for parlays. Bwin is a good example. In some exotic leagues they won't allow you to place 50 Euros a bet, but if you want to play 500 Euros on a parlay in that league, no problem (well, at least for a few times).

[smitch124]

somebody has been watching way too many gamecasts