Originally Posted by
redietz
I wasn't sure if blackhole was referencing me or not, since I don't consider myself an AP and I don't post plays, but I am a sports bettor.
I wish he would stick to what he knows. I just had one of the finest all-time years, my sixth best year ever in straight plays, plus I nailed some hefty futures for a profit. I have never, not once since 1979, lied or even vaguely misrepresented a number, a record, a statistic of any kind. I have never recruited a client or partner from any website. I post under my own name, and my record this past year is verifiable via both contest plays and dated emails to clients. I am well ahead lifetime sports gambling -- not even close.
So don't disparage me with some throwaway line about sports gamblers. If you want to take shots at the rest of the industry, be my guest. But since I'm the sports bettor who's been on this site the longest, please at least have the decency to stick to some kind of verifiable facts.
I've been doing this a long time. I have conducted myself pristinely for 40 years, and to say that has come at great price is banal and obvious. But that's the way I've done things, as a thumbing my nose at the industry and capitalistic ethos in general. It twists my knickers if somebody takes a shot at me. I'm the guy who didn't keep a client he actually met until he was 35 because he never compromised a word coming out of his mouth. When 900 numbers were in vogue, and Feist took over my particular line, I was the guy who didn't take a Monday night game for two months because, in my mind, they weren't good bets. Do not frame me as even remotely possibly some backchannel scamming entrepreneur.