Deadspin investigates wanna be tout world

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Not a good week for Covers, the hits just keep on coming.https://deadspin.com/5907732/in-the-realm-of-gambling-message-boards-anyone-could-be-the-next-sarah-phillips

ValueforRent · Answer

Not a good week for Covers, the hits just keep on coming.https://deadspin.com/5907732/in-the-realm-of-gambling-message-boards-anyone-could-be-the-next-sarah-phillips

ValueforRent · Answer

Online anonymity enables pick sellers to become something they aren't: Las Vegas wiseguys, Ivy League students with proven systems, and so on. It also allows them to change names on the fly, something that handicapper Brandon Lang—whose fabricated career inspired the movieTwo For The Money—has done on more than one occasion (he was previously known asBrandon Scott, Brandon Link, and Mike Anthony.)

ValueforRent · Answer

Most wannabe touts are forced to try to differentiate themselves in some other way. An extended hot streak will always get attention. The masses flood the boards looking for winning picks because they're too lazy to handicap games themselves (either that or they're long-term losers).

Thats good ole Covers all rite.

kaponofor3 · Answer

VFR -- why the hell have I seen zero posts from you in the NBA world recently? I miss your quality thoughts

kaponofor3 · Answer

"At Pregame, 23 of 33 handicappers (69 percent) recently lost money for clients in a documented period of time that consisted of 25,956 picks. A $100 bettor would have lost $127,708 by tailing every pick made by the "professionals"—and that doesn't even factor in the cost of the various packages, which can carry monthly fees as high as $349."

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Love the BEE shoutout -- you the man, BEE!

I_Need_A_Detox · Answer

People that get beat by wannabe touts deserve to get beat.

I don't even have a problem with hiring "SJP".

The only problem I have is that when people came at "SJP" for writing obvious bullshit the higher ups always took "her" side and boxed or banned their loyal members... And then when it comes out that "she" was a fraud they don't have anything to say.

No big deal really... Deadspin

I_Need_A_Detox · Answer

.... Deadspin isn&#39;t that good of a blog. They write a story that gets my attention once a year and the website isnt good enough to visit again.

I-Got-5-On-It · Answer

Jack Zito

ClubDirt · Answer

heard he went tout, under an assumed name here at covers, and spends a lot of his time criticizing people who write articles calling out touts.

666LES · Answer

Have we been fading Computer-Boy in NBA write-ups?

mafioso · Answer

Truthfully Covers is very lucky that the beted incident was never brought up by deadspin.

That would have been a huge black eye.

In this world nothing is what it seems, the good guys can be bad and the bad guys can be good, evil has a soft spot and good has a mean streak.

I trust no one here nor do I expect anyone to trust me here.

I follow what the masses do to bet against them

the only thing I beleive in is the poster who started and still posts the COVERS BLOODBATH posts

It is a winner, perhaps well over 70%

Another proven winning system is fade brandon lang on anything he gives out as a 75 dime game or better, I know the odds are soppose to even out a bit but his big games have lost at a 70 to 80% clip over a 4 year year period, that is consistency.

Kelly_Slater · Answer

"(Full disclosure: I used to write a column for Covers, and I worked as a freelancer for SportsDirect, the parent company of Covers, until April, when I was let go for pursuing the story about the 21-year-old handicapper.)"

pulledclear · Answer

They target the weak. This place is no different. Wake up morons!

14daroad · Answer

Another Deadspin post on this:&#xD;&#xA;Source: Sarah Phillips Steered Business To A Bookie Who Was Probably Nilesh Prasad

BunkMoreland · Answer

someone should go post this info on pregame.com

those idiots still have followers.. when they lose a big game(paid cappers) they post a rant with apology and get people to say you are a stand up guy, get em next time.

BS

Deadspin investigates wanna be tout world

Source: Sarah Phillips Steered Business To A Bookie Who Was Probably Nilesh Prasad

Source: Sarah Phillips Steered Business To A Bookie Who Was Probably Nilesh Prasad

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