Hi I'm Tejas,
I'm back on Covers after almost two decades!
I've been capping/betting since 1995. The #1 rule back then was to make sure I had enough quarters for a payphone to call in for lines and make bets.
When I was about 15 right around the time Proline launched, I had a friend whose father was the local bookie.After years of hanging out at his place, I learned from observation how the sports market worked.
He used to get his lines over the phone on such a regular basis that he often complained his hand was sore from all the numbers he was jotting down.
I started to get curious about making money from sports bets and tried to pick up as much information as possible.When I turned 19, I decided to sign up to the only sportsbook in Canada sportsinteraction.com(Quebec)
Those were the days depositing involved getting western union information from customer service, going to western union, then giving CC the MTCN number, then wait for the deposit.
Around that time there were two risks sports betting
1) Sweating the Game
2) Sweating the withdrawal
The industry was not regulated so many boks took advantage of that.
If a sportsbook was not paying bettors,There was a site called sbr.com (sports book review) who used to a Rate sportsbooks, and fight for bettors when books don't pay.