Originally Posted by
redietz
Get your facts straight, KewlJ. LOL. No chance of that, eh? Little double entendre there.
Nothing like hearing reports from the advantage play kid, who argues that being 8-4 makes one "two games over .500."
Your sports betting stories are as nerve-and-logic-jangling as anything MDawg has written about blackjack. You don't see the irony to your being "the MDawg of sports betting?"
Anyone betting in Las Vegas from 1985-2010 was immersed in a sea of Billy Walters influence and associates. Many, many things happened to relatively famous people because of the Billy Walters gestalt. There was no way to go through a week without rubbing shoulders with Computer Group associates or Walters' runners. I didn't suddenly learn about Walters because I was recruited and worked for him for six months. Far from it. What the book does is it enables people who were there to connect dots on a host of significant events.
"Advantage play
kid', hun?
Is that your attempt to belittle me. Wow I am crushed. I am in my 40's and in another 2 months will end 20 years of supporting myself from advantage play and card counting. All that comment did was highlight your contempt for some winning doing something at an advantage that you thinks minimizes your accomplishments.
Your continuing rant about games over .500 is just terminology. Nothing more. I continue to believe that if 6-6 is .500 (and it is), that one game better than .500 would be 7-5. That means you won game above the .500 mark. But again in the end, it means nothing. It is just terminology.
At the end of week 2, when I was 56-31, I expressed those results 3 way. I said +25, I said 25 games over .500 and I posted the exact numbers 56-31, so there could be no confusion. Turns out my saying 25 games over .500 was incorrect for reasons I have stated. But either way, it means nothing it is just terminology. I made it cystal clear what I was talking about by posting the exact numbers.
Not that it matters, but a poor weekend this weekend (particularly college) and I am 136-138 (with 7 pushes). First time this season I have dipped below .500 but still close enough that this whole AP play will have a good return and that is all I was ever after. I am not looking to displace you as the best sports bettor on the forum or whatever you think you are, so just calm down fella.
As for whatever you are doing trying to document the history of sports gambling from 1985-2010, good luck whatever that is about. I was a toddler in 1985, so only have a passing interest. But if it is important to you, go for it.