Quote Originally Posted by SportsMavin:
Hey guys. May be my few cents will create all new atmosphere and all of us will be done with poking. This is no Face Book here.
Since you're the host of this thread MITkid - I'll start with you. Simple advice:
1.The only thing that makes a strong impression among the gamblers is the ability to maintain the positive balance, showing up daily, keeping your records straight and not being so sensitive to the remarks meant to belittle you. If you show your sensitivity - you're exposing yourself to more of the same with the other side knowing how to push the buttons.
Now let's see: You do have a positive record, you do show up daily and at least trying to maintain the records. In that regard you have to decide whether you're straight betting (100 to win 90) or betting 110 to win 100. Seems by your counting that you're straight betting. So no need to go into complicating the numbers. Wins are +90. losses are -100.
2. Using the right terminology will help. The least needed to maintain the positive record is 53.3% success. Means that if you go 50-50% - that is the loss of the juice and you'll be in a hole.
Nobody really cares if you're really betting the sums you say you do or not. And nobody should. Unless you boast some big wins and paying for tuition etc. No need.
3. You seem to choose the right plays, but for a prolonged period of time, playing 7 games a night will get you in the hole. Without a slightest of the doubts.
4. You should be prepared for losing days as well, so be humble and everything else will come to you.
I really wish you the best of luck and thank you for your effort and willingness to share.
Now to all the "others" who are with a microscope looking to catch the "liar", "cheater" or a dumb behind. This is a holiday season and each of you have to find in your heart a warm place to welcome the different among you/us. Believe me you'll feel better about yourselves. And to the pro gamblers who visit this man's thread - please - let us help the man to develop his skills in a positive way - and the skills he has, and the determination - so please treat the man positively and who knows, in a month or two - we might have a profit maker at least for sometime. This is a time of the year each of us has to hold himself accountable for his actions and make the resolution for the next year. Let's do it right this time.
I appreciate your effort and advice. Just because I bet 7 games a night does not mean I am a loser, or it's a losing proposition. It does not matter if I bet 7 games a night, 70, 7000. The games don't talk to eachother. If I see a +EV bet, I take it. Sometimes I bet 0 games a day. Sometimes 10. It's actually 52.4%, not 53.3. I also don't play $100's. I don't lay 10%. I am just using those numbers for tracking purposes and because that is what most lines are at.
I get better prices, I vary my bet size depending on my own calculated edge on my true lines. My betting is far more complicated than the average covers person can see. I am not going into advance mathematics and statistics in this forum. People here think knowing what variance is and the law of large numbers means they are some kind of expert.
The facts are I said I came here to help, I offered picks for free, and people made assumptions and called me a liar. People assume I bet $100 because they did not read my first post properly. People assume you don't go to a certain school because you did not type out a proper sentence with proper spelling and grammar on your iphone, so that makes you a liar. It's hilarious.
People call me a liar because THEY did not go to a good school, and THEY did not pay their way THRU it, and THEY can not hit 59% over 7 years. THEY are losers so they hate and grasp whatever bs they can to try and spin it into something they want in order to feel better about their pathetic lives.