Originally Posted by
Seedvalue
Originally Posted by
redietz
Last season, both Todd Witteles ("Dan Druff") and Rob Argentino ("Rob Singer") handicapped their way to top-notch NFL ATS records. Argentino made things tougher by using a forced-choice, five-games-per-week format, which is somewhat artificial but more difficult than taking however many games you want each week. That format is generally used by most NFL contests, large and small.
Witteles cooled off some in the final weeks but had a wonderful record. Argentino had a superb record, but called it quits after a bad week the end of November. No law against that. In fact, he should be saluted for doing so because it indicates he knew when he had run out of advantages.
No matter my issues with Argentino, what he did was top notch and needed to be recognized. Witteles, meanwhile, brought a certain sensibility to his handicapping that suggested long-term, not that he would break the bank season after season, but that he knew what he was looking for.
That brings me to report the 2023 formally tracked records of my co-host of the Billy Walters' book event, who had helmed a high stakes sports betting cartel in LV back in the 90's.
My co-host is in the free BetOnline Mega-Contest and the Survivor.
After last night's game, my co-host is 39-21 ATS, picking five games a week in forced choice format, and sitting in 44th place out of 20,000 in the Mega-Contest.
My co-host is also one of the remaining 166 people out of 22,000 in the Survivor Contest.
Basically, in the top one-fourth of one percent in the Mega and top one percent of the Survivor. Tough to pull that off. It also puts a context to the difficulty of what Witteles and Argentino did last year. I think it was kewlJ who didn't appreciate the rarity of earning a record like this. It is very, very rare, especially on NFL sides.
Now, I expect, as with Witteles and Argentino, for my co-host's record to not be maintained down the stretch, especially the last couple of weeks when everything is a zoo. But to sit in these positions at this stage is really a rare event.
None of this matters unless we know how much Money is on the line. How much did they win ? How much do they have ? How much does this guy keep ? You see gambling is more then winning in your specific field of expertise. One of the best machine APs I know regularly runs up 10 to 15k a week but eventually loses it all in the pit gambling. Never holding on to one cent. Bottom line He’s a fucking failure period.
From all accounts it seems you fall into this same category. If you couldn’t pay the tax’s on your home. No one should take advice from broke degenerates or even believe what they are saying. Maybe you were successful at one point but just like the 99 percent of fake pro gamblers you lost it all. Now all you have is fairytales to tell of years past. Living in little Chicago wishing for the glory days
Seedvalue, according to your value system, every sheik in Saudi Arabia is more successful, and smarter, and wiser, and stronger than you. More worthy of respect. More worthy in general. And every Silicon Valley entrepreneur who didn't crash similarly is better, stronger, wiser, tougher, and smarter than you.
And 99% of Olympians are weak unsuccessful morons because they make no money doing what they do.
That's your value system. You're welcome to it.
To speculate that I somehow lost oodles of money doing this and that is silly. I had a 5,000 pound library, trimmed to half that size because I donated half my books the last 36 months. In case you're not an avid reader, books cost a fair amount of money. I have had no chinks in my gambling discipline. Ever.
Meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out how you could possibly not know that prostitution was illegal in Las Vegas. I mean, how did you not know that? It blows your entire storyline to Kingdom Come (note the little Seedvalue sex humor there).
I leave the reader to speculate. The biggest, most successful AP on the anonymous internet did not know prostitution was illegal in LV. Not sure what the odds are against that, but they are long.
You're basically the same narrative as MDawg, only street-level. Anonymous dude making gazillions because he's better, smarter, wiser than the common folk. You can have your narrative, my friend.
I'd rather be me than thou.