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Originally Posted by Mutt
there are very few people on this planet who can make a living off sports gambling - Lem Banker an old guy from Vegas is the most famous one I know whose full time occupation is sports wagering. professional bettors only bet when they see the opportunity - they can pass on a whole NFL weekend if they don't like the games/lines offered - that's a pro - 99% of bettors don't have that discipline and it's that discipline that is necessary to turn consistently into a winner.
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Agreed.. To an extent..
Any good gambler knows that there is no sure thing, or a lock.
Any good gambler knows that they are going to loose a big chunk of games they have action on.. If they say they dont, or if a buddy tells a story of some guy who is nails week in and week out, they are full of shit. It does not exist.
But what does exist is the ability to pick a slim % ratio of winners to loosers over a set amount of given picks of action.
Its a naive gambler that waits around for that one big bet to put his money on skipping week after week for that one big bet. Shit happens. More often than not.
Most big betters and good betters, myself included (not saying im good but I share a simialr system) that is we can go in on a particualr day on a consistant basis and pick 5-6 games. Spread a nice even amount on each indivdual game, say if you have 30k in your account, then do 1k per game on 5-6 games.
If you know your shit, you can hist 4 out of 6 of the games and still be in the money.. Hit 5 out of the 6 and be big time green for that day.
Football weekends are good for this scheme. picking anywhere from 4-6 games to wager on. Having the discipline not to bet the farm on a particualr game you have a "feeling" about or have some emotions about. The times where you bet 1k on all the games and get emotional or in love with a team and dropping 8k on one game and 1k on all the others is where you get burned.
Everyone has a different style, mine, dispite what I post here at GFY is pretty conservatitive in nature.. I have have 10k of action going in one day, but its not all on one game. Its spread out. In 1-2k unit intervals per game for a given day or weekend.
Its almost like a Mutal fund of action if you will.