Gambling Thread

Is it a pain in the ass to fund online accounts like Bovada?

 

When I was younger, I used to gamble a ton. Pre-hold em boom, I played poker all of the time in local games and cleaned up because I went by the odds more than my friends and was more aggressive. Played blackjack a lot, but now get bored quickly because I basically play the charts. I tend to play a few hands with big bets and if I get lucky, put away my stake and roll with the winnings. The last two times in Vegas, I won enough in 30 minute stretches to pay for my whole weekend.

But I really love sports gambling. When I was at Cornell, I cleaned up betting Ivy League football and especially hoops. The line makers were awful. I still bet NBA a lot, especially money line and over-understand, which have gotten way harder recently.

 

A buddy of mine who is pretty hardcore has repeatedly told me Ivy games are easy prey if you're a serious gambler. He's gotten to be Internet friends with a group of four or five guys who work the angles on women's college basketball.

 

Small school college hoops is profitable if you pay just a little attention to it. If you cover it, you'll clean up.

 

I lived with some guys on the hoops team and a couple of guys who were grad assistants. I doubt that many people watched more tape than was played in that house. So I had an advantage on the market. Plus, the schedule was Friday and Saturday night games and except for those visiting Penn and Princeton, the away teams had awful commutes late on Friday night. I noticed that the away team on the Saturday night games did terribly against the spread. Hence my spending money junior and senior years.

 

Love jai-alai.

Fifteen years ago, when we sold our house in South Florida and moved to Texas, my wife went to Texas a month ahead of me so I could stay behind, finish the sale, get the move done, etc. I went to the jai-alai fronton 31 nights in a row and made a boatload, thanks to some good research that gave me a ton more information than everyone else had in the program. Wish I could do it again.

 

Six or seven years ago, buckdub and I cleaned up in Vegas playing blackjack the first night and craps the second night. Basically paid for our five-day small SJ outing. I was up $900 and buck was up $625 or so.

Last year during my bachelor party weekend, I got up $1,000 at a blackjack table with a $100 buy-in. All my buddies were trying to convince me to leave because I probably sat there five hours or more. Lost that whole $1,000 back in less than a half-hour.

And that's the last time I gambled.

 

I love betting dogs and horses and do so with solid results. I love the trill of the race and love the animals, so that sparks my interest. I've gotten pretty good at both throughout the years.

I will also bet anything where I'm involved (golf, shooting, fishing, 5Ks, who can move more product in a fund raiser, you name it). I play poker with regular success because I am a rock. I like the craps table because you can take a small amount, bet the pass line all night, and have an exciting evening with minimal loss/gain.

I make an annual gratuitous Super Bowl bet just for laughs, but until some team lets me suit up, I don't do much sports betting.

 

That Baylor kick return was a beautiful thing.

 

Once you make the mistake of calling the 50, the 150 is alright.
Calling more tna 50 percent of the pot with bottom pair, not good.
Biggest mistake, though, is other guy's shove. He's got to know he's with the 3k over bet..