Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
Originally Posted by
redietz
Mickey, you didn't post this ironically, did you?
Do you know how oxymoronic it is for people to charge $350 for a seminar where "striving amateurs" get "unparalleled opportunities to learn sharp-betting secrets from winners and insiders"? Holy hell, that's bad ad copy. You have to ask yourself, why would people speak at such a thing?
C'mon, man. There have been seminars like this for both sports and race (more for race, actually) going back 50 years. Let me know if Billy Walters is attending.
Attending this thing isn't a mark of savvy. And being on the speakers' list isn't exactly a great thing, either, depending on the topics you cover.
Now Roxy (I love how people use the short informal version, like "Vegas,") is great, but I suspect I know a little more about "Roxy" than you do. And my better half knows a helluva lot more about Roxy and his personal history than you do. Luck of the draw -- some folks hang out in the same places and all that.
Mickey -- if you think I should be attending this event, I have news for you. I should not. Seriously. Now if you think attending this is a mark of expertise, how about giving a paper at the National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, and then fielding questions after the paper and at a cocktail party afterwards and then having the paper published in the proceedings? If you consider waxing eloquent at this to be a big deal, how about holding forth at an actual vetted conference?
I can't believe you are asking if I am attending this. Jesus, man. Wake up and smell the coffee and all that. I have always avoided this kind of thing like the plague. What's funny is that I remember about 10 years ago, the person in charge of a 50K a game cartel in LV heard Person B ask me if I wanted to attend a session of something similar to this. After Person B left, the cartel manager asked me "Weren't you offended by that? Doesn't he know who you are?"
Wow ! Awesome ! Managing to drop in a Billy Walters reference.
Funny how Redietz has to fall back on attacking bet bash. $350 could be used to.. uhm.. pay one's property taxes. Why would he spend it on this?
I think Mickey's point was more how clueless you are when you dogged on Spanky for being anonymous. Spanky getting out there far more than you.
And You? You're hanging out in the dark corners of gambling forums being a grade-A weirdo.
Yeah, Spanky's a real Hall of Famer. Strikes so much fear into the hearts of bookmakers that he's hosting a sports betting seminar.
As they say on ESPN, c'mon, man!
And I'm actually a Spanky fan now that I saw his reaction to being limited. He sounds like us here in IntegritySports-ville.
You know what we used to do to just as a way to be pains-in-the-ass? Just to be maroons? If we were in town for something like March Madness, we'd pick some Godforsaken longshot and one of us would go to a window and try to bet a couple hundred. Inevitably, the window person would have to say, "Key!" and then get a manager. In the meantime, the person at the window would berate the sports book, "Caesars' Palace!?! This is Caesars Palace and you need to check to take $300 on Belmont? What's the matter with you? Thirty years ago, they'd hand us a wheelbarrow to bet this!" Then the manager would come and limit the bet and the bettor would shake his head and comment some more.
And then two minutes later, one of us would go to another window and try to make a similar bet on the same team. And berate them some more.
Just to be asses. And to point out, over and over, that the proper response to trying to bet Belmont at 1000-1 isn't "Key!" but "Sir, how much do you want to bet? Do you need a wheelbarrow? A truck?"
I could be wrong, but I think Spanky would be the kind of guy who would get a kick out of doing that with us..
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