I went from down a massive amount to winning a massive amount in the Ohio state/Oregon national champ game. Then took an official job with a college and not just volunteer and now it would get me fired.
Do you guys bet online or just in Vegas? If online, how do you get around getting limited online? I think Bookmaker is the only (US-facing) book that has never cut my limits and even they took away my rewards/bonus program. The thing that finally convinced me to dive head first into crypto, rather than simply using it to transfer funds between the books, was being told by HRWager that I was in an online database and they didn't want my business before ever placing a single bet with them.
When I first found out about crypto, I was in Ecuador traveling through S. America. I completely stopped everything I was doing and rented a house. I read everything I could on the topic. I watched all the youtube videos I could. I OBSESSED over it for 3 months straight. I couldn't sleep, I barely ate. I was sleeping for about 2 hours a night... I was exhausted, but I couldn't do anything else. It was just me and my gf in a 3 bedroom house. She told me she's never felt so alone in her life. I barely talked to her at all. I just knew this was gonna be fucking huge. I then told my partners that I'm retiring and no longer working with them. So far this year, I'm "up" over 2x more than I made in my entire sports-betting career, which was enough to allow me to retire (knock on wood). Fucking ridiculous. Now, I'm kinda bored with it. I know most of these are pump and dump scams that will eventually go to zero. I was literally unfazed by this drop the past few days... I'll be taking quite a bit off the table at the end of 2018/beg 2019 just to lower my risk even more. Once you've won the game, no need to keep running up the score... I won't be selling those precious Factoids though. :)
We have hundreds of shops. We have a guy on the payroll who's sole responsibility is to keep replenishing us with new accounts as we get cut. I'm glad I didn't have to handle any of this side of the business.
Having gone along for the ride, there are quite a few books online where you can get serious money down even if you win long term. Bookmaker, 5dimes, betonline, betdsi, and youwager for starters. For CBB games you could easily get down over 5k a game at those books. CFB closer to 50 depending on how late in the week you're betting. The only place I ever got cut off after all these years was with an actual bookie. The online shops are trustworthy and won't limit you much, if at all, in my experience.
Yup those are the good post-ups. I also have pinny, greek, and some asian accounts that take big bets. A lot of our stuff is done with local credit shops though. Betonline and BM definitely the best post-up shops for Americans.
My brother and I both experienced credit card/debit card fraud after signing up on 5dimes. So yea... keep that in mind.
I wish that were true. I've had my limits cut by literally every one of those shops except Bookmaker. 5 Dimes my max is now like $200 on NBA sides (haven't checked in awhile, I mostly bet team totals, props and non-American sports). I did take them for about $75k this football season though. Betdsi had me down to $250 max on everything, including NFL sides, before I left.
5dimes doesn't surprise me as cutting but doing it on nba sides is weird. I'm not at all surprised that you would get cut when betting team totals, props, and non-american sports. They get like no action on those and aren't going to let you bet a few K per game. We were betting CFB sides/totals, CBB sides/totals, and WNBA. Those markets were generally pretty easy to get down money....sides obviously moreso than totals, especially with CBB totals being a much smaller market over the last few years.
When 5 Dimes cuts, they cut across the board, as do most books. For NBA I bet a lot of 1H and 1Q team totals. Those limits are usually $500. Now they're $100 and $50, respectively. They actually cut my limits to 20% of normal limits a long time ago. Back then, their motto was "where the pros play". So I ended up on the live chat with Tony, their owner at the time (think he still is?) and asked him why they were cutting limits with their motto the way it was. He's quite a colorful character and basically told me to go fuck myself and he could make my limits whatever he wanted. So I stayed with them anyway, and around late August I fat-fingered one of the amounts and discovered my limits were magically 200% of normal limits. So that was fun for about a month and a half (2k Eurobasket 1H team totals haha) until they cut them back to what they are currently. You're right that if you bet at market lines on major sport sides and totals you are unlikely to get cut unless you are consistently beating the closing line. But where's the fun in that?
Even with these crazy insane drops today... none of the alts are priced lower than they were... less than 3 weeks ago! right? Was poking around looking for good buys.
This is awesome. Going to use as an example of how clueless the media is. I am looking at HAT or COSS. COSS has incredible ROI potential but is less likely to succeed. Any doubts in your mind on HAT? Talking roughly .5 ETH worth into one. (Or any other exchange token i am open to suggestions). PharmDNole
The funny thing about Tether is when you really need it there’s nothing they can do to keep the price at $1 because people are desperately trying to get in or out of crypto so people will buy Tether at a 5% premium panic selling, miss the bottom, rebuy higher, and buy in with less because now the Tether is at a 5% discount because no one wants it anymore
Apparently Dentacoin was just a copy of some third world shitcoin that the founders used ICO money to the buy dental clinics to pimp as “independent partners” accepting Dentacoin Short news - Dentacoin is a scam don’t buy it
COSS is down for maintenance and is the #101 ranked exchange by volume. Wow... pretty small exchange.
I added some more VEN just now. They have a number of announcements coming over the next month or 2, including 1 today. Don't know how much impact it will have on the price today though. It's a blood bath out here.
I think it’s time to just sit on our hands for a bit. I don’t think this is a situation where all the sudden we’re going to see a reversal and 30-40%+ gains in a single day for several days. Think this downturn is going to linger for a while, then the recover will start slow before eventually expediting into another rocket run. Time to be patient.
Are you guys staying diversified in alts or consolidating to Bitcoin to ride it out? I'm currently spread between BTC, XMR, XRB, XLM, FCT, SNT, primarily.
Man I'm usually lax about people investing in shit since we're all just guessing really.. but how fucked do you have to be to have invested in bitconnect?
I was already 90% alts before all this so I'm going to ride it out and keep my large positions rather than sell now for the Big 3 and have to buy back into the same alts at a higher price.
It's all profit, but I've lost more in the last week than I made all of last year from my regular employment.
When I first got in around Thanksgiving everything I bought tripled or more, sometimes a lot more. I'm taking this crash to realize that from now on I am only going to put my money in things I want to hold for a year. Not saying I won't trade here and there but enough with the TRX and shit like that.
I transitioned mostly to stuff I am pretty interested in long term - XRB, FCT, BTC, XMR - it's still hard to watch it all crash at once.