I am tired of the crap lines I get in 5dimes. If I am grinding out a nice existence now, I can only imagine how great it would be with smaller margins for the book.
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Well, it is very hard to find a book better than 5dimes in means of margins. For reduced tennis markets, the juice is %1,80 which is one of the best in industry. Of course marathonbet, matchbook and pinnacle "may" offer margins around %1,5 but I guess you are from States and 5dimes is way to go if you want low margins. I am from europe and I use 5dimes as well. Also marathonbet for underdogs and tempobet and betcity for favourites but still 5dimes is very low on margins.Comment -
I know Betfair and Pinnacle are amongst the best-don't know the finer details though. I think you would be fine with either of those. Betfair live betting is sick!Comment -
betfair commission is 5% and even 6.5% for a few euro countries so it isn't what it used to beOriginally posted by ManeOnFireComment -
Pinnacle has the best lines...Comment -
D2D, you are from Canada right? Why don't you use Pinny?Comment -
I have an account on Pinny, but it is an account that I only bet an average of 3-4 matches per week on. No tennis, no special plays. I only bet my biggest games on it, sort of my 'top plays'.Originally posted by leetreaper
This is is going to sound funny.....I was out with a buddy about a year ago and we were talking about sports wagering. I told him what I was doing and showed him my original thread at SBR. We decided that he would open an account at Pinnacle with $1000 from each of us. I would call him every time I had a play of the day that I loved and he would bet exactly 5% of the account balance (to risk) on that game.
The goal was that I would never know how much was in the account or how much we were risking. The only time I ever found out what we had was about 3 months ago, both out partying and he told me we had around $8500.
The goal was to play with exponential growth....to never be tempted to make a withdrawal. I had told him that eventually I wanted to be wagering $2000 per game ($40,000 roll) and that if I got there, with my win-rate, that I believe I could live off of what I made. One of the problems with this model is that I will never wager on one match per day or less. I am probably the highest volume capper that I have seen at this point, capping across MANY sports and capping anywhere from 5 matches to 25 matches in any one given day.
If Pinny has the best tennis lines then I will have to get myself a Pinny account of my own....can't be giving away money.
Last at year I average posting 12.5 wagers per day on SBR, all documented and tracked and won $16k in that 5 months across 7 sports and 1600 individual wagers. I have always been a mathematician first and I have always told people that volume is the best and quickest way to beat variance (actually the only way). If I see an edge I play it.....because of my volume it doesn't need to be a huge edge....it just needs to be there and then the law of averages works it out for me.
Now, to be sure, I will never leave my career behind. I make a pretty silly amount of money and I absolutely love what I do. It is nice to think about though.
I just started officially tracking all of my plays again 4 days ago on my thread. I don't know how long it will last....I may become bored with it again at some point, but for now they are all there.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on.Comment -
Bovada ain't too shabby.Comment