Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Originally Posted by
redietz
Singer is moaning and groaning that I never post plays. And really, why would I? What would my motivation be?
But I just realized that I posted an entire week of plays in the sports betting forum here, all of which were in the "Strange Week Continued" thread.
I bet more that week than I have any week in the last two years, and the plays were all pretty much reported in real time as I made them. They were all middle shots, and anyone who did what I suggested made money.
I thought I had posted that thread at WoV, so it slipped my mind when Rob went off the rails.
Anyway, the plays are there in black and white. Most sports gamblers will understand what I was doing, which required an anticipation of line moves. I tend to get those kinds of moves correct a high percentage of the time. That particular week, I anticipated all seven line moves correctly.
Other than Boz and MidWest Player, I'm not sure if many of the locals here would easily follow what I was doing, but it really was very basic and not complicated.
https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sh...Week-Continued
I read the thread. You claimed to have made 7 middles but posted only 2 plays before the games started.
So much for objectivity.
No, mickey, I SHOT for seven middles and hit one. Jesus, if I made seven middles, it would have been the greatest handicapping feat of all time. The one I hit, I clearly laid out in advance. That thread, by the way, does not contain the entire discussion, as is evident in the first post. It's a continuation of another thread. And I laid it out more clearly at WoV.
So when someone announces that they've taken all chalk and says all the lines have to move, that means the buybacks are on the underdogs. That's self evident. You don't bet chalk and then come back hedging on chalk. Thus, announcing that you've taken chalk means (for the reader) follow the line and buy it back when optimal, usually at the end (barring injury, covid, or massive dog line move). None of the games had injury, covid, or massive dog line moves, so what you should do was evident. I also announced that they were asymmetric middle shots with the bias to the opening wager, so the buyback was going to be implicitly less than than the opening wager.
In that thread, I didn't lay out in real time three of the games, which resulted in a net of about a quarter unit. I reported after the fact on the three I took a shot at, and -- if you understand what was happening -- they were the worst of the bunch in terms of anticipating line moves. The lines didn't move as much as expected. They were busts, in other words, as middle shots, although I made a quarter unit on them. So I reported the least impressive of what I did after the fact in that thread. Now why would I do that? Because it's football season and I'm busy. I probably reported those in real time at WoV, but I don't remember. You understand, don't you, that reporting the least impressive results after the fact was something I did not have to do?
The NFL middle hit was in real time. The Michigan and Ohio State were laid out clearly. I reported what I did with App State, and anyone could have done the App State bet in real time, as that line didn't move much. The numbers peaked for Mich and Ohio State at the end, so even if you didn't get the best numbers laying chalk, as I did on Monday, you still had middle shots. And you still had asymmetric middle shots with the favorite covering, so you didn't lose anything. In fact, you made money.
Anyone who read just that thread as opposed to the previous post and WoV lost out on a quarter unit of the profit. They still hit the Denver/Cleveland middle and made money.
I guess you had two ways to go on this, and you chose to write what you did.
So tell me, mickey, what would your response to Rob's Post #2 in the LineMaster Results thread be? You still haven't answered that.
And while you're verifying things, let's hear what you think about Rob claiming that gambling writers never got advances for a first book. I would think you'd be all over blatant lying like that.
It's reassuring that you and I are of the age and attitude to not give a damn if we see another sunrise. Neither of us is hard to find.