waste of time? any 'real' pros?
vigbuster68
Junior Member
Hello all. I'm new here and have a question for everyone. Any insight at all from any of you would be very much appreciated. I've been sports-wagering with a few offshore books for 5 or 6 years now. I started out poorly, but have learned so much through experience and a dedication to handicapping. These last 2-3 years I've probably taken as many withdrawals as made deposits, and these last 2-4 months have been even better as both my consistency and discipline has improved. I really don't care to be the next 'Billy Walters' or anything (if that guy really exists, and isn't just a character invented by the industry to make us all think it's possible lol). Making a few extra thousand-a-month per account down the road doing something I truly enjoy appeals to me greatly however.
My question is this: is it a complete waste-of-time to have such a dream? Does anyone here make-a-living off of sports-wagering? or at least make some decent coin in their spare time? or know someone else who does? I've read several posts in these forums prior to registering, and many make it sound like it's a shady, dishonest world where the books often don't honor payments to winners, and consistent bigger winners have an extremely difficult time getting bets down in Vegas and offshore, as well as to open new accounts. I thought about bet-trading on BetFair, but was put-off by the 60% premium commission I heard they charge their most successful customers now. I so far have and have had accounts with betdsi, bookmaker, and the greek, and would like to open others eventually with 5dimes and pinnacle also. All A+ or A rated books by SBR and most other review sites. I haven't experienced any withdrawal issues yet, but I'm still playing with virtual peanuts. Will this change when-and-if my accounts and the $ involved ever gets much larger? Looking forward to all of your responses. Cheers everyone.
My question is this: is it a complete waste-of-time to have such a dream? Does anyone here make-a-living off of sports-wagering? or at least make some decent coin in their spare time? or know someone else who does? I've read several posts in these forums prior to registering, and many make it sound like it's a shady, dishonest world where the books often don't honor payments to winners, and consistent bigger winners have an extremely difficult time getting bets down in Vegas and offshore, as well as to open new accounts. I thought about bet-trading on BetFair, but was put-off by the 60% premium commission I heard they charge their most successful customers now. I so far have and have had accounts with betdsi, bookmaker, and the greek, and would like to open others eventually with 5dimes and pinnacle also. All A+ or A rated books by SBR and most other review sites. I haven't experienced any withdrawal issues yet, but I'm still playing with virtual peanuts. Will this change when-and-if my accounts and the $ involved ever gets much larger? Looking forward to all of your responses. Cheers everyone.
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This says all I need to know ^^. Do you really think anyone and there are some are going to come here to discuss anything on open forum with a person who IMO doesn't seem know much about "this industry" Did you think of that statement all by yourself.
Unfortunately no truer words have been spoken
You can also play single digits as the game was going on. Add the win price from the 1st, 2nd and third race and the last number was the 1st number. then the 4th, 5th and 6th race was the second number you get the idea. we grew up in great times getting out of town newspapers phone calls were made from weather crazy shit. Thanks for the memories Chuckh
Might as well go back to playing blackjack. By the way, really enjoy your stories Old-Timer. I'm pretty sure you were on my list of pit-bosses to avoid. :-)