Forum is dead right now, but it's time to be putting in work to get things in order for football season. I wanted to share several good handicapping resources I've collected over the years. Most are related to football and baseball, but there are some others as well: Pomeroy Ratings Ken Pomeroy's site. The authority on college basketball ratings. I always start here for NCAAB Division I-A Team Index (Stats) Nice database for NCAAF team history Half-Point Calculator - SBRForum Betting Tools Not for handicapping, but a good tool for calculating odds and prices NCAA College Football Offensive Statistics StatFox, an excellent resource for key statistics in several sports Lineups @ BaseballPress.com A nice quick reference for gameday lineups in MLB Keeper Cool site with a unique NCAAF power ranking system Statistics - Cleanup Hitter One-stop shopping for key stats, weather, lines, projections, etc in several sports. I mainly use this one for MLB NationalChamps Good site for NCAAF head coaches history and info STASSEN Another hidden gem that has some great databases for NFL and NCAAF (also tracks preseason magazine accuracy, which is pretty interesting) Major League Baseball Weather : Weather Underground Quick weather reports for MLB games USA Today MLB Matchups USA Today has partnered with Covers to compile nice compact matchup summaries in all sports with trends and key stats. I use this for MLB and NCAAF. Opening Lines Football Resource for opening lines in Vegas. Key for getting ahead on Sunday mornings for next weekend's NCAAF slate http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/natlRank.jsp?year=2011&div=IA&site=org NCAA's official site for statistics. Pretty much everything you need right here. I have this site linked up to my spreadsheets for data collection Phil Steele Phil Steele. Magazine is a must for preseason info and his daily blog is a wealth of knowledge The Saturday Edge - - Nice site just started up by 2 very good handicappers from theRX. Some really good articles and preseason info there now. Interested to see how this one develops. Also some forums I frequent for discussion: http://cappingthegame.com/ CTG. Small community with several very talented handicapping minds that are regular posters. Best site out there right now if you want to learn about how handicapping is done and don't want to deal with shills and touts http://therxforum.com/ TheRX. Much larger site, quality of posting has really gone downhill in the past few years. I still poke around here because I have been a member for several years. Preseason NCAAF is a really great time to mine for info. Once the season starts, you have to wade through mountains of bullshit to find the gems. Beyond the Bets - Sports Betting Great site that I just started digging into a few weeks ago. Lots of good articles and resources. Forum looks to be very small but high quality My next project is trying to build a good Twitter list for gameday news. It's pretty small right now so I would appreciate any suggestions of yall have something similar put together. Please post any other good resources you've come across. Otherwise, enjoy and good luck!
and just like that, I stumbled across a great tool for building that Twitter list: http://www.wagerminds.com/blog/twit...al-people-on-twitter-for-sports-bettors-6307/ Spoiler The 17 Most Influential People on Twitter for Sports Bettors July 11th, 2012 | By WagerMinds If you’re a sports bettor and you’re not on Twitter, you’re choosing to lose money. And that’s a strange choice. Without question, Twitter is the best source for breaking news. But it’s also a great source for insightful analysis from sports handicapping experts. We’ve been immersed in the sports betting Twitter world for nearly a year and, based on our analysis of the participants, we’ve compiled this list of the 17 most influential sports betting tweeters. What does it take to be one of the most ‘influential’ sports betting twitter users? Well, we considered a number of variables including: the user’s overall profile, their number of followers, the frequency of sports betting related tweets, the quality of the information provided and the uniqueness of their perspective. We put all those variables into our proprietary influential algorithm and, voila, out came this list. 1. Bill Simmons Twitter Handle: @sportsguy33 Joined Twitter: April 18, 2009 # of Followers: 1,754,551 Average followers gained per day: 1,061 Now, the SportsGuy doesn’t always talk about sports gambling. But he does a lot. And given he’s one of the most high-profile sports personalities in the country, that’s a big deal. He’s entered the LVH SuperContest the past two years and placed in the money in 2010. He’s a very sharp NFL handicapper and he’s a must-follow for sports bettors. 2. Scott Van Pelt Twitter Handle: @notthefakeSVP Joined Twitter: January 5, 2011 # of Followers: 280,998 Average followers gained per day: 509 Scott Van Pelt hosts the 11pm SportsCenter and hosts an eponymous radio show on ESPN Radio. Van Pelt, one of ESPN’s most high-profile personalities, has offered a dead simple (and much welcome) opinion on sports betting: “I don’t know why it isn’t legal everywhere.” We don’t know why either, SVP. Van Pelt isn’t afraid to address sports betting and will frequently reference betting lines and oddsmakers in his tweets. 3. Darren Rovell Twitter Handle: @darrenrovell Joined Twitter: March 13, 2009 # of Followers: 226,572 Average followers gained per day: 186 Call him the King of Twitter or the Twitter police or something else entirely but, no matter what you call him, Darren Rovell is a Twitter master. He was CNBC’s sole sports business reporter but, just weeks ago, he left to join ESPN. He has over 225,000 followers and for good reason – he’s a prolific tweeter who dispenses a ton of interesting information. Of course, Rovell covers a lot of topics but he frequently addresses sports betting with an eye towards big game lines and interesting prop bets. 4. Colin Cowherd Twitter Handle: @ESPN_Colin Joined Twitter: June 30, 2009 # of Followers: 361,756 Average followers gained per day: 327 When it comes to national talk radio personalities, you often love them or hate them. There is no in-between. And Colin Cowherd is no different. On his radio show, Cowherd consistently talks about sports betting with a focus on how ‘wiseguys’ think about games compared to how John Q. Public thinks about them. During the NFL season, Cowherd gives his weekly ‘Blazing 5′ picks against the spread and last year he went 53-38-5 for a 58% ATS win rate. Not bad. 5. Beyond The Bets Twitter Handle: @beyondthebets Joined Twitter: February 12, 2011 # of Followers: 16,738 Average followers gained per day: 30 The site launched just one year ago but it has already become a must-read for thousands of sports bettors. And they kill it on Twitter which is why they’ve gained 30 followers a day for over 15 months. With over 16,500 followers, you have to follow Beyond The Bets if you’re interested in sports betting. 6. Todd Fuhrman Twitter Handle: @toddfuhrman Joined Twitter: February 4, 2011 # of Followers: 14,123 Average followers gained per day: 15 Sure, he stands on the wrong side of the counter but Todd Fuhrman is the most social media savvy bookmaker anywhere. From his perch at Caesars, Fuhrman provides good insight as to how oddsmakers think about lines and points out common mistakes sports bettors make. He has over 14,000 followers for a reason. 7. RJ Bell Twitter Handle: @rjinvegas Joined Twitter: March 2, 2009 # of Followers: 18,831 Average followers gained per day: 17 RJ Bell is the CEO of Pregame.com. He makes weekly appearances on Colin Cowherd’s ESPN radio show and is quoted in dozens of media outlets including Bloomberg and elsewhere. Bell will frequently tweet out big game lines as soon as they are released by offshore and Vegas books. 8. Chad Millman Twitter Handle: @chadmillman Joined Twitter: April 21, 2009 # of Followers: 33,137 Average followers gained per day: 12 Chad Millman is the sports betting guy at ESPN. He writes a periodic ESPN Insider column on sports gambling trends and news and hosts the Behind the Bets ESPN podcast. Millman is also now the Editor-in-Chief of ESPN Magazine and, as a result, his gambling coverage has fallen off a bit. Despite that and despite his infrequent tweeting, every sports bettor should follow ESPN’s designated sports betting guy. 9. Bill Barnwell Twitter Handle: @billbarnwell Joined Twitter: February 25, 2009< # of Followers: 25,261 Average followers gained per day: 20 Bill Barnwell, a writer for Grantland.com, lives in Las Vegas. He’s written some Vegas sportsbook reviews and provided extensive analysis of betting teasers in the NFL. His tweets prove he’s a sharp analyst with a focus on value-shopping and finding the best number – sure signs of a smart bettor. 10. View From Vegas Twitter Handle: @viewfromvegas Joined Twitter: April 20, 2009 # of Followers: 8,904 Average followers gained per day: 6 Dave Tuley is a longtime Vegas watcher. He’s operated ViewFromVegas.com for years and now periodically writes for ESPN Insider. He does a great job covering the Vegas football handicapping contests so if you’re interested in the LVH SuperContest, he’s a good follow. 11. Steve Fezzik Twitter Handle: @fezziksports Joined Twitter: May 17, 2011 # of Followers: 5,601 Average followers gained per day: 5 Steve Fezzik is the only person to ever win the Las Vegas Hilton (now LVH) SuperContest in back-to-back years. That’s an amazing accomplishment and, for that reason alone, he makes the list. His gambling skill has been covered in numerous media outlets including the LA Times and while he will occasionally go quiet on Twitter for weeks at a time, he’s a must-follow for NFL season. 12. Covers Twitter Handle: @covers Joined Twitter: March 23, 2009 # of Followers: 20,063 Average followers gained per day: 16 Covers is the largest sports betting website on the internet. For that reason alone, their Twitter handle is worth following. 13. Adam Kramer Twitter Handle: @KegsnEggs Joined Twitter: August 27, 2009 # of Followers: 18,823 Average followers gained per day: 18 You may not recognize his actual name but you should definitely get to know his Twitter handle: @KegsnEggs. Kramer is a college football aficionado and, better yet, he’s consistently looking at betting opportunities. And his periodic trips to Las Vegas make for outstanding tweets. But here’s the other thing about Kramer: he’s hysterical. Really, he’s one of the funniest follows. 14. So Money Sports Twitter Handle: @so_money_sports Joined Twitter: June 26, 2009 # of Followers: 7,986 Average followers gained per day: 63 So Money Sports is a professional sports bettor based in Canada. He’s a frequent participant in the Beyond the Bets forums and he spends a considerable amount of time sharing his sports betting knowledge with anyone who asks. He tweets out his own bets on a regular (like daily) basis so if you’re interested in tailing a smart bettor who doesn’t sell his picks, follow So Money. 15. Stuckey2 Twitter Handle: @stuckey2 Joined Twitter: October 31, 2011 # of Followers: 6,714 Average followers gained per day: 9 Stuckey, according to his Twitter bio, is a 26 year old from the suburbs of Philadelphia. He made a name in the Covers forums and is now making an even bigger name on Twitter. Despite simultaneously working on a finance career, Stuckey is seemingly on top of every sport. He’s smart, honest and analytical. 16. Joe Fortenbaugh Twitter Handle: @JoeFortenbaugh Joined Twitter: September 22, 2008 # of Followers: 6,631 Average followers gained per day: 5 Joe Fortenbaugh writes the Vegas Hotline column for the National Football Post He lives in Vegas and he’s completely dialed into the NFL betting landscape. Whether he’s finding remarkable value in NFL combine prop bets or scoping out NFL futures, Fortenbaugh is a must-follow for NFL bettors (and since every sports bettor is a NFL bettor, follow him). 17. David Purdum Twitter Handle: @davidpurdum Joined Twitter: April 23, 2009 # of Followers: 1,662 Average followers gained per day: 1 David Purdum is a freelance writer who used to work for Covers. He’s an expert on the sports betting industry and is consistently surfacing new and interesting stories. During his time with Covers, he became one of the few journalists on the planet to score an interview with Billy Walters, the single most successful sports bettor in the world. He’s smart, sensible and principled and certainly worth following.
Here is my list as of this morning... Part One... Spoiler Sports Cheetah @SportsCheetah Use my love for sports, math, and game theory, as well as my Masters Degree in Sport Psychology, to profit from betting sports. #ITGteam member. Follow adc @gamblingkings tennis betting is what i do but i dabble in everything. Follow Jay Primetown @JayPrimetown Long time supporter of the MetroStars / Red Bull New York. Strong interest in sports handicapping particularly soccer, tennis, and MMA Follow Adam Burke @SkatingTripods Cleveland Indians fan, degenerate gambler, hockey fanatic, and Assistant Managing Editor of TheClevelandFan.com. Follow TheSportsMarket @TheSportsMarket Approach the sports wagering market no different than financial markets. Follow Nemo @Nemo_718 they nicknamed me nemo because I fish out bad lines. #razorlife Follow 11in11sports @11in11sports Here to discuss sports and offer my (free) picks as I place them. Unapologetic Cardinals homer. Also play some blackjack. [email protected] Follow Rance @behindthebets I write about sports, I bet sports, and I love sports. Big Notre Dame, Falcons, and Lakers fan. Check out my latest picks using #RancePicks Follow PhillyGodfather @phillygodfather Sports Handicapper.Pro Gambler, The Breakdown and TheBoxingShow ESPN950am in Philly. Finished in the $ HiltonContest 2011/2012. GamingtheGame. It's a bet. Follow The Tonian @The_Tonian Like to yap about sports, the quirks and idiosyncrasies of life, & turkey jerky. Follow Tony C @TonyCap Professional Gambler Follow R. Perez @World_Wide_Wob Full time Handicapper, NBA Junkie....#TeamStern Follow Bruce Friedman @NotTheFakeBruce I bet on sports...tweet about TV shows and movies...religion and politics... weekly MarketWatch for College Hoops at http://www.toddstake.com Follow Matt Lindeman @lindetrain Follow Right Angle Sports @RASPicks 56% win rate last 2,000+ picks across CBB, CFB, & WNBA. Fully transparent recordkeeping against WA lines. Unmatched market influence and closing line value. Follow John Candido @johncandido Developing predictive algorithms for sports analytics and financial markets. Creator of the Fightmetric Matchup Analyzer. ESPN Insider contributor Follow Haralabos Voulgaris @haralabob still loving the NBA Follow Mike Wilkening @mikewilkening Senior editor, Pro Football Weekly. PFW's handicapping writer. Covers AFC North & Lions, follows all 32 NFL clubs + all league matters. Handicapper. Follow Parker Michaels @kreatture Once a Star, always a Threat. The Tragedy of Perfection. The Sweet is never as Sweet.. without the Sour. Follow David Payne Purdum @DavidPurdum I have not yet begun to defile myself & don't know why the guy outside said I ordered some kegs of beer. [email protected] Follow
Part Two... Spoiler Joe Fortenbaugh @JoeFortenbaugh Writer @ The National Football Post. Give me the hard 4, 6, 8 & 10 and a pound of gummy bears. I'm gonna be here for a while. Follow Stuckey @Stuckey2 Sports fanatic w/a head full of info that I figure I should share. All things betting my forte. Stuckey from covers for those familiar. 26 y/o. Finance career. Following So Money @So_Money_Sports Sports investor helping others supplement their income. I came, I saw, I conquered. Follow Adam Kramer @KegsnEggs Founder and gatekeeper of Kegs ‘n Eggs. Lead College Football Writer for Bleacher Report. Advocate of FAT GUY TOUCHDOWNS and Las Vegas tomfoolery. Follow Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell Grantland.com writer covering the NFL from Las Vegas for the 2011 season. Follow chad millman @chadmillman editor in chief espn the mag, gambling/sports betting guy for espn insider, espn the mag, espn. like other stuff, too. Follow Todd Fuhrman @ToddFuhrman Las Vegas bookmaker sharing my take on sports and gambling. Have your own spin? Email me [email protected] Follow Colin Cowherd @ESPN_Colin Love your life. Like your sports. Follow Bill Simmons @sportsguy33 Grantland.com (editor-in-chief, columnist), BS Report podcast (host), thebookofbasketball.com (author). My Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/billsimmons Follow Nick Bogdanovich @vsm_bogdanovich Follow JayChristensen @JayChristensen Proprietor of the last great independent college football blog: http://www.thewizofodds.com/ Also check my hoops site: http://www.themarchtomadness.com Follow Chris Huston @Heismanpundit Heisman voter breaking down the politics of the most prestigious award in sports, plus hard-hitting college football commentary & analysis. Follow Steven Lassan @AthlonSteven College Football Editor for AthlonSports.com Follow ESPN_SEC @ESPN_SEC Follow Edward Aschoff and Chris Low for all things SEC. Follow Ivan Maisel @Ivan_Maisel College football, 12 months a year on ESPN.com and as host of the ESPNU College Football Podcast Follow Stewart Mandel @slmandel Writer, author, lover, humanitarian and college football writer for SI.com Follow Jason McIntyre @TheBigLead I write, among other things. Email me: [email protected] Follow Paul Myerberg @PreSnapRead I believe in the triple option, the fullback dive and big, physical defenses that get stops on third down. Follow Tony Barnhart @MrCFB Sports writer, broadcaster for CBS, CBSSports.com, CSS, and 790 The Zone. Follow LineProjector @LineProjector LineProjector.com - Free sports betting information, line movements, and line projections Following Danny Sheridan @DannySheridan1 Handicapper & Sports Analyst for USA TODAY Following BCSKnowHow.com @BCSKnowHow Everything you need to know about college football and the BCS, all together. Following Brad Edwards @BradEdwards_BCS ESPN's BCS analyst since 1999; also an analyst for College GameDay on ESPN Radio and the ESPN Bowl Bound app Follow CoachesBTN @CoachesBTN coachesbythenumbers.com is a website that provides an objective, statistical view of college football coaches. Follow RJ Bell @RJinVegas Sports betting expertise from Pregame.com’s CEO, Las Vegas insider, and almost media darling. Follow my big bets, gambling stories, and free picks! Following Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP Actor, world renowned connoisseur and professional gentleman of leisure - Mr. Whitefolks Follow Max S @mtsabert We're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Follow Steve Fezzik @FezzikSports Back to Back Hilton NFL SuperContest Winner. Math Geek. I am exclusive to lvasports.com do not run any other sites WARNING stevefezzik.com is a FRAUD Follow ESPN CollegeFootball @ESPNCFB The official ESPN college football Twitter account. Follow Covers.com Sports @Covers Editorial team for Covers.com, the No. 1 site for sports bettors. Use our Vegas info & breaking news to aid in your handicapping. Picking the right side is key. Follow Andy Fezzik @AndyFezzik Sports fan and amateur Handicapper. Syracuse Graduate. Avid stock trader. Software Engineer. Amateur Coin Collector. Check out my blog at andyfezzik.com Following Dave Tuley @ViewFromVegas ViewFromVegas.com is Dave Tuley's website that gives his unique point of view (aka the ViewFromVegas) of the sports world as a journalist and gambler. Follow darren rovell @darrenrovell Sports Business Reporter Follow Dave Bartoo @cfbmatrix Where the eyeball test meets odds & trends. The unique & new way of telling the story, past, present & future of CFB. Oh and damn good ATS, ML #winning Follow WagerMinds @WagerMinds Sports betting site where users prove their skills by making picks with real Vegas lines. We track the results. Honest, accurate, transparent and free. Follow Beyond the Bets @beyondthebets FREE (no, really) sports betting information site with daily posts designed to educate and inform. Email: [email protected]. Following The Saturday Edge @SaturdayEdge The best college football betting community on the planet. We offer FREE PICKS, betting strategies, tips, ideas & information.
Has anyone subscribed to Sports Insights? I know King_Of_Expo_Park used them last year for trends and was pretty successful.
I do alot of research myself and have found some good cappers on this site.... www.covers.com look under forums and lots of good discussions....
Would some of you be interested in chipping in together and get the pro package from sports insights? I can't drop $250/mo by myself, but, if it were split up say 5 ways, it would be well worth it imo.
PRs complete and plugged into my master schedule... I now have a line for every game this year (excluding ones with FCS teams, which I don't bet). Always fun to see what comes out. Some interesting ones based on the Hilton GOY lines: 9/6/2012 PITTSBURGH CINCINNATI 10/6/2012 ARKANSAS AUBURN 10/6/2012 KANSAS KANSAS ST 10/27/2012 NC STATE NORTH CAROLINA 11/10/2012 GEORGIA AUBURN 11/17/2012 OKLAHOMA WEST VIRGINIA 11/23/2012 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ST 12/1/2012 OKLAHOMA TCU
I want the line movement data. Sports Insights has the best collection of software to track line movements, trends, etc. I used it last year for a few weeks at the end of the season and it made a difference in my betting account. Then bowl season fucked up all the good work!
i think this site is adequate for odds tracking http://www.sbrforum.com/betting-odds/ hard to justify paying for anything IMO when all the information is out there to be had
there are people on madjacksports.com that get line movement data as well. i may actually follow a couple of guys exclusively and maybe put 1-2 SEC games of my own on the card. last year I made lots in the SEC and dumped a lot back in stupid MAC/MountainWest shit games I had no business betting on. THUNDER, I will probably take every pick for his % he puts on them. Guy is rock solid Can we make a TMB pact not to bet on garbage games during the week?
I have the sports insights apps for my iPad and phone. It is nice because you can select all the games you're looking at and it puts them in a MY GAMES tab and you click on each game and it shows line movement for O/U, side and ML for every game. You can even pick what sports books lines you want to go off. Shows exactly what time movements happen.
as much as I love Steele's magazine, I really wish he would spend more time on this year's outlook instead of dwelling on past seasons so much
I usually like it but this year I am iffy as can be. Without going in depth in it yet. Florida #10 and UCF #15 has me all out of whack
first question is, how many bets will each of you have out on opening tuesday night? 7 D1 college games.
I see 6 games on Aug 30 that I like. I'll probably cut that back, but I'm fired up for that first night!
7 games on opening night means, 7 spread bets, probably 1-2 underdog ML bets, 7 o/u bets. haha IM FUCKING PUMPED
If you guys are going to gamble on college football and basketball alot, for $40 you can get the Blue Ribbon CFB and CBB books. Great price for them.
http://blueribbonyearbookonline.com/index.php?route=common/home What else you want to know? If you bet on CBB you need this book
I use 3 books for College Football. Phil Steele, Blue Ribbon and Marc Lawrence Playbook. Marc Lawrence Playbook is basically alot of GAMBLING information in the book for trends and shit like that College Basketball is strictly Blue Ribbon. Its about 300-500 pages with 4 pages on every Top 25 team and 1-2 page on EVERY college basketball team.
no amount of reading will help with my problem of betting too many games and not consolidating my $ into fewer bets
Nothing wrong with volume betting if that's your thing. It certainly makes Saturdays fun. It's just harder to break out and make a chunk of money since things obviously tend towards the mean with a larger sample size. On the other hand, more plays limit your downside as well, which is nice.
It's just a bad strategy altogether. Definitely limits profits and there's always at least one day that you go 1-7. Weekends I've won big have always been when finding ~3 games and doing 3 straight bets and then parlay all 3.
If you can consistently beat the closing number, high volume is a critical part of the strategy to even out deviations from the mean. If you can hit openers on the right side then your edge can be pretty damn significant over time. It's much more applicable to bases than football because of the number of games/year and relatively short time from open to close. Check out www.mlbpricemachine.com, those guys are pretty much doing it to a T. It's a lot of work and not much fun, but they are going to be profitable.
Also there are a couple of guys on another forum that are bookies with a pretty large client list. Made decent money once I started following them (mid bowl season IIRC). Obviously the early part of CFB would have been bad bc the top 4-5 teams covered every week. But once Vegas started sharpening up their lines bookies made their money back and then some. At one point when both the posters "needed" the same game it was ~80-90% for like 5 weekends in a row
Also if I were to buy a pick package from anyone specifically it would be a guy named "LSUPete" that used to post on RXforum. Went tout at bowl season last year and was $25 for the package. went 28-6-1. Full season hit around 65% as a whole and was a lot higher for "high unit" games. Package is something like $350 for the whole regular season. bookies on that site I follow very closely are "bookiereport" and "ekg222004" for anyone interested
I'm sure it's somewhere on this board, but where do you guys bet on college football games? Like, what site do you use and why? Thanks.
used to bet with a local. every year have that weekend where i get absurdly drunk and make a mistake and end up down more than I can afford to pay. finally got my account deleted last year 5dimes.com probably the best out there. if you have a visa card, can deposit $50+ thru visa processor. have as many/more lines/options for buying points, props, types of teasers/parlays, etc than anywhere else I've seen. cashout is really easy through western union and is ready within 24 hours - except for initial cashout you have to email a photo copy of front/back of card used to deposit, drivers license and a utility bill with your name and address that matches card. never had any complaints. widely acknowledged as a great book on betting message boards. good customer service live chat
I bet with a local as well, but he uses a website to track everything. After all of the issues with online poker and gambling sites, I'm just a little worried about sending money to a website.
Yeah, TLAU made some good points, but I don't like the idea of sending a photo copy of my drivers license and utility bill. I'm afraid it'll get shut down and I'll lose my money. I would love to meet a local guy, but I don't know anyone in my area who does that.
had to do the same thing with a couple different poker sites, sportsbook, bodog all in the last 5-7 years. sportsbook still works, but last I heard you had to get a "sportsbook debit card" mailed to you aka prepaid visa that you load money onto at one of those "cash advance" stores to use for deposit. and then withdraw money onto the card and take to same type store to get paid. I never deposit more than $100 into 5D. and only reason I did is because Madjacksports and RXforum all acknowledge that they're legit and won't be getting shut down anytime soon. Same people I trust to give me info on bets to make that I risk waaay more than $100 on regularly so risking $100 deposit on the same people's info is how I justify it. and in the last year I've never had any type of problem. Locals can get busted too... check the "gambling ring bust" thread I posted. know a few guys that profited from not having to pay him an outstanding $1000+ balance and a couple others that were up $1500-2000 on the guy and never got paid bc of the bust.
Yeah I have heard of a couple local books around me that either got busted or the cops were looking into them hard so they quit taking bets. The guy I bet with has about 40 bettors. So, he's not running as big of an operation as the aforementioned bookies. Some of the biggest books here I know are run by college students.
guy I cut off my account with started up as a standard phone/paper book back in 2007 season, before the big "generic angelfire looking website" boom took off I think in 2008. Found out last week he has business cards now he hands out that don't directly say he's a bookie... but it's pretty fucking obvious.
Was he in Auburn? I know of at least 3 operations as of today that still run on paper books, prepaid cell phones, and betting numbers.
I had money on The Greek then when they moved to Heritage, Heritage started limiting me to $50 Halftime bets and I told them to fuck off and took my money off there.
What's the average most of you guys end up winning a year? What do you start with? What do you finish with? When do you just pull the plug on it? I always start slow with like $20-40 to deposit into my account and then try to just keep betting on my winning money. Last year I was 1 game away from hitting a 12 team parlay in week one that would have won me something like $30,000(didn't put much on it because it was just really for fun) I would have won but Penn State didn't kick a field goal at the end of the game because they were already winning and didn't need to score again so they went for it on 4th. It made me sick. Since I'm somewhat new to it all I'm not betting a whole bunch per week because simply I don't have it to lose at the moment with the way my business is going. Any tips? I did pretty well last year but got sucked into some stupid Thursday night games and sucker bets. Any advice would be great. Also, my Wells Fargo debit card locked the site I was using last year. It worked for a few weeks and then started blocking it. Has anyone had a problem with 5Dimes or anything doing that to them? I'm switching to another bank soon because Wells Fargo started a new fee where if you don't have $1,500 in your checking at all times you're fined $5 per month. Any bank you recommend that hasn't had any issues with online sites? One more thing, with 5Dimes I know you've got to send a picture of the card you're using before your first cash out, also have to have a utility bill with your name on it. Since I'm back living at home to take care of my mom who's sick, how would I go about that since obviously the bills won't be in my name?