LMAO!!!!! These rooks think I'm making this s#it up but I'm serious as a heart attack!!!!!
Certainly wasn't making any money. Between the bookie scalping your lines and the 25 cent telephone calls your $10 bet maybe netted you a $3 profit.
Where is KeyElement? He'll vouch for me.
OUCH!!!!! 
@TheGoldenGoose
Speaking about the office being open, before the internet you could only play with illegal bookies and only when they opened which was like 6PM until most of the major NBA/NFL games started.
No betting before, or on props or first 5 or team totals.
You had to meet a guy every Wednesday at some bar to pay or get paid.
But in those days you could make great money on MLB just by taking the extremely dominant pitcher who would pitch 7 or 8 innings and just a closer. You could lay 180 or more on every bet, picking your spots of course, and still turn a profit. It was possible. That's how much starting pitching meant.
@RebelTell2
Well, acid was everywhere and cheap. Do remember a Boston game with six of us on the third base line. We all dropped a hit of blotter about two hours before game time. Dwight Evans lined one over the monster into the netting and we all got up to cheer. Except Steve. So I said, "Hey Steve, Dewey just cranked one." And Steve says, "Yeah, I'm still watching it!!!"
@TheGoldenGoose
In those days with the pitching situation if you had a 3 run lead heading into the 8th you'd win 90% of those games.
To 5 MLB lines - a blast form the past:
EV - 6
5½ - 6½
6 - 7
7½ - 8½
8 - 9
8½ - 10
9 - 11
10 - 12
11 - 13
12 - 14
I remember yelling out to friends after getting the paper, "Hey, Steve Carlton's laying 12"
Ah- the good 'ol days. I'm basically a .500 bettor. These days no more generally than $50 a game.I remember fiding a local through a friend-probably around 2006 that put his lines up on a recording and never changed them. You could bet up till gametime. I told my friend it wasn't a question of if I would win but how much. I played middles using Pinnacle probably betting $200 a game.I think over a year or so won about (maybe longer )20K. I used to answer the phones for a book and an affiliate said things were getting hot and to get any paperwork or $ out of the houise.I remember taking about 13 k to my parents to keep. They're freaking out -like where in the hell did you get this mponey-drugs ?I convinced them it was from gambling but everything was safe. I remember going to western union every other week cos we always lost offshore and won from the local.They prolly thought I was funding a terrorist organization. But alas-nothing lasts forever !
@Contrarian
I agree. We could eliminate 80% of the property crime overnight if all drugs were legalized. Bringing the black market drug trade into the economic mainstream would initiate an even greater boom than did the tech boom of the 90s. Let the market control the price. Think of all the capital that won't be going into a black hole. It will happen, in time. Locking up drug users and drug dealers is as foolish as it gets. The only way to curtail drug use is education.
Established in 1995,
Yessir. Good stuff!!!
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