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Some of this stuff we shouldn't have even known about Bob Dietz. Like the late payment of property taxes, that I believe coach belly looked up. Or who it was that actually paid for that house. But for some odd reason, in his crusade against being anonymous, this Bob Dietz person posted his name address hundreds of times. Even his phone number a handful of times.
He more or less exposed himself as the people almost always do. :cool: Singer did the same thing.
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Cannot an avowed "professional sports bettor" also have a job outside of that, one to pay the bills?Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
Could be he had a regular job and dabbled with sports for shits, giggles, and to make some extra dough, both from betting and from "clients."
I don't know, nor really care: the man seems to knows sports betting, just as you seem to know card counting.
That is a different discussion and one that we have had before haven't we? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
The definition of "professional" says something like a specific activity as one's main paid occupation.
If a person is a dealer at a casino, but plays blackjack one day a week on their day off, playing at an advantage, are they a professional gambler or blackjack player? I think any reasonable person would say no.
If a person works any other job 5 days a week and AP's one a week on Saturdays, are they an AP? sure. Are they a professional AP, meaning supports themselves from that? Come on? :rolleyes:
Since redietz claims he mostly "specialized" in college football, and only was in Las Vegas 100 days (3-4 months a year), there seems a reasonable chance he did something else back in East Bumblefuck the other 8 months a year, that he just hasn't told us about. Maybe he had a side job working at the East Bumblefuck Gazette. Maybe he delivered Pizzas. And that is all well and good. It isn't mandatory that everyone be a "professional" AP/gambler/player.
But again, I come back to that is not what he lead us to believe all these years. If you say you are a professional anything, doesn't that mean that is how you support yourself or make a living?
And the whole "professional" player/AP thing can get even hairier, when talking retirement.
For Card counting, I have always said that before a person has a family, 20's maybe early 30's is a great time to be a card counter. And the second good time is after retirement, supplementing retirement income. BUT if a person is retired, lets say decent pension, collecting social security and they embark of some form of advantage play in their retirement, and make say 20-30k, but are really living off their retirement, are they really a "professional" AP or blackjack player? :confused:
I had a bit of a problem with a guy back on Norm's blackjack forum 12-13 years ago, that this was his exact situation. he retired from teaching at a college (professor) in his early 50's and started playing blackjack. And his wife still worked full time. By the time he got to his 70's he promoted himself as a professional blackjack player for 20 years. But that whole time he had retirement income that dwarfed what he made playing blackjack and his wife still worked. Is that REALLY a professional player? :confused: Not by my definition.
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EXACT A MUNDO.Quote:
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I don't want these losers knowing where my mom lives and thus the basement within I dwell. Flood me out like a rat in a sinking ship.
No thanks