Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by Ozzy View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
Tom G showed us how to get a monster edge in sports betting but it requires a massive amount of daily action.
I think it was something like 20 bets per day, averaging 250k wagered per week.
I'm probably off on this total amount wagered but I just remember thinking how impossible it would be for me to bet on all those games day in and day out.
Easy Money... I suppose but the Fucking Leg Work involved is impossible for me to maintain.
And I have a sun problem.
When the sun comes up, I go to sleep.
I haven't read that cesspool in 5 months, but last I recall TomG seemed to know a lot about sports betting in general and other forms of AP. He seemed to wager like a grinder/flea low roller that I recall. I got the impression he was a very high IQ skilled AP, with a fairly modest bankroll, who severely underachieved from my years of reading him.
The whole parlay idiocy at WoV, and TomG is part of it, is unbelievable. Outside of a couple of very specific instances, which Boz and any halfway experienced people know, parlays are really silly.

A dentist friend from Florida who I partnered with, had a good parlay bettors quote, "Parlays are for poor people."
As you said as well, I have always found the discussion of parlays farcical from people who are AP’s. They live off numbers and edges, sometimes small and other times bigger. But in every case they do the math and know the odds before making a play. Parlays go against that in so many ways I find it shocking it’s even a discussion.

Sports betting is hard enough to pick one winner and a split on 2 games isn’t the worst day if you made the “right” bets for the right reasons. Except in the parlay world of course. And it just seems to be a weakness in otherwise educated gamblers.

I guess they follow the advice of a man in State College PA who once said “If you can go the first, why not go the Second Mile?”