And at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist....
The whole thing seemed like a Miller Beer commercial to me. Pretty young lady with big boobs, with older man. Lady laughs at all jokes, flirts, and is over the top for a journalist (didnt notice much the first time, but watch it again). Man lives fantasy life, deserves lots of things and pretty women (and beer).
One might say that this was a calculated step in the glamorization of sports betting, kind of like the transformation poker went through in the early 2000's. Show a few heroes who have "made it", make it accessable to the average joe, keep up with the celebrity lifestyle portrayal, and you have a booming business.
Like I said, Im not sure whether to believe it or not, but it sure seems like this could be interpreted to appear that we are at the start of a "normalization and glamorization" of sports betting. Im not sure why else Billy Walters would do it, and it sure seems like 60 minutes sure knew what they were doing when they sent that reporter instead of an old man.
The reason why Walters did it was because he wanted to shine a light on how shady stock-trading is.
What I thought was interesting was that I stare at the lines all day too watching line movements just like BW
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:
I watched it several times....
And at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist....
The whole thing seemed like a Miller Beer commercial to me. Pretty young lady with big boobs, with older man. Lady laughs at all jokes, flirts, and is over the top for a journalist (didnt notice much the first time, but watch it again). Man lives fantasy life, deserves lots of things and pretty women (and beer).
One might say that this was a calculated step in the glamorization of sports betting, kind of like the transformation poker went through in the early 2000's. Show a few heroes who have "made it", make it accessable to the average joe, keep up with the celebrity lifestyle portrayal, and you have a booming business.
Like I said, Im not sure whether to believe it or not, but it sure seems like this could be interpreted to appear that we are at the start of a "normalization and glamorization" of sports betting. Im not sure why else Billy Walters would do it, and it sure seems like 60 minutes sure knew what they were doing when they sent that reporter instead of an old man.
The reason why Walters did it was because he wanted to shine a light on how shady stock-trading is.
What I thought was interesting was that I stare at the lines all day too watching line movements just like BW
"I've been broke more times than I can remember" - best quote of the show
The fact that this guy makes his own lines & handicaps games based off of the differential on his line & Vegas' lines make me respect certain cappers around here A LOT.
Good stuff.
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The fact that this guy makes his own lines & handicaps games based off of the differential on his line & Vegas' lines make me respect certain cappers around here A LOT.
The fact that this guy makes his own lines & handicaps games based off of the differential on his line & Vegas' lines make me respect certain cappers around here A LOT.
Good stuff.
It is really the only way to wager on sports.
How you come to that line is a whole different discussion, but the basic method is a necessity.
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Quote Originally Posted by ozzwald:
The fact that this guy makes his own lines & handicaps games based off of the differential on his line & Vegas' lines make me respect certain cappers around here A LOT.
Good stuff.
It is really the only way to wager on sports.
How you come to that line is a whole different discussion, but the basic method is a necessity.
I took a screen shot on my TIVO when the computer screen he was looking at is up. I wish I knew how to get it on a computer from my TIVO, but I dont. You can go to exactly 3:20 of the linked video.
Anyway, it is a CONFIGURABLE Don Best screen. Guess which books he CHOOSES to have on his screen?
In order:
Cris Greek Grande Just Bet Pinnacle Mirage Jazz Matchbook Coast CNeva Hilton Caesars Badlands
Seems to me, that is pretty telling of where he is betting.
He must have a ton of different accounts for each site as the most you can bet on those sites is not much these days, especially if you're a known winner. On college basketball, I don't see how he gets more than 5k at a time normally.
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:
I took a screen shot on my TIVO when the computer screen he was looking at is up. I wish I knew how to get it on a computer from my TIVO, but I dont. You can go to exactly 3:20 of the linked video.
Anyway, it is a CONFIGURABLE Don Best screen. Guess which books he CHOOSES to have on his screen?
In order:
Cris Greek Grande Just Bet Pinnacle Mirage Jazz Matchbook Coast CNeva Hilton Caesars Badlands
Seems to me, that is pretty telling of where he is betting.
He must have a ton of different accounts for each site as the most you can bet on those sites is not much these days, especially if you're a known winner. On college basketball, I don't see how he gets more than 5k at a time normally.
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