Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
It's not me that sounds like an idiot. It's you. Why would you want your name and ability splattered all over everything so the bookies could read it? Everyone from Walters on down had to use beards to get their action in. If the bookies knew you and accepted your cash bets after seeing your record in the small time/small paying contests....then they considered you to be their sucker. Did they increase your limits?
There was a reason you played the free contests. You needed the chump change.
LOL. Or I didn't care about ramifications because I didn't need the chump change. I just liked to beat other people. I like showing off some skill. This is what anthropologists call non-material resource acquisition.
You see, what mickey has constructed here is what all the "pro sports bettors" like to claim. We're so good that we can't allow anyone to see what we do or chart what we do so take our word for how good we are because we're so good.
It's one thing to operate in the betting stratosphere like Bill Walters. He can hurt books and no one really operates in a level above him, so there's no opportunity to piggyback his plays by betting more than him. For the rest of us mere mortals, there's almost always an opportunity for people to piggyback us for as much or more than we are betting ourselves. Is there an angle to allowing this kind of transparency? Of course there is. But I'll let the VCT genius squad figure it out and report back.
The bottom line is that I can't believe mickey is this naive vis-a-vis sports betting. I'm going to save my best crimm zingers for more-public consumption. The man cannot be this naive. But I've been wrong before.
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