how you start in betting on sports
jets96
Senior Member
A very long time ago , I guess before i realized people were betting on sports, a friend of mine told me he was betting on three football games and they were locks , l lost all three of them, 330 bucks back then was a whole lot of money. I chased that money for many years after that.
I was never a great student ,went to college at the same time I was in the Navy. Made a good living, and at times, I think am still chasing that 330 bucks.
I read every single book on sports gambling , to this day I still read as much as i can ,still trying to find the holly grail sports model, am doing fine gambling ,its a grind, but I make money and that's the bottom line.
Goats I knew way back in SSB days, learned a lot from those guys , a lot of cool characters on that site. I printed as much stuff as i could back then and still refer to it today.
How you guys start ?
I was never a great student ,went to college at the same time I was in the Navy. Made a good living, and at times, I think am still chasing that 330 bucks.
I read every single book on sports gambling , to this day I still read as much as i can ,still trying to find the holly grail sports model, am doing fine gambling ,its a grind, but I make money and that's the bottom line.
Goats I knew way back in SSB days, learned a lot from those guys , a lot of cool characters on that site. I printed as much stuff as i could back then and still refer to it today.
How you guys start ?
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since then, ive at least smarted up to go the "fund of funds" model for all you finance people. occasionally i'll play my own stuff, but i outsource all of the hard work to smarter people than i and take the credit. i do ok in CFB though so i am comfortable with my opinions there. thankfully a buddy introduced me to RAS/BT a long time ago which has been a huge benefit for multiple reasons.
jets - i wanted to PM you something about the NY/NJ area but i know thats not permitted. not sure if theres a way thats acceptable around that.
Quit working and still did not think about it for years based on the idea of market efficiency which I had read about in the gambling market and was not even following college football. But still was not sold that I was not a genius.
In casually observing Big 12 scores, I still had the bug for picking football games and was doing paper betting very casually and experiencing what I knew was unreal bad variance but still keeping the faith because my best bet was winning at a high rate. Eventually wanted to bet a game and researched offshore. Then discovered free money and got a lot more interested.
All of it really dates back to a football contest picking high school football games in my local home town newspaper which is how I found out that I was good at picking games -- not that I did not think that already in sixth grade.