How did you get started in sports betting?

I am asian. It's in the blood......

Started out playing dominos and cards for money in my early teen. The bookie came into the picture during the 1982 world cup.

Moved to the states and got hooked on football...the Niners because I lived in SF. The rest is history.

My favorite sport....... No fucking way I'd watch it without money on the line

I couldn't disagree more..... The high of a big win is history in a few but the agony of a big loss can stick with you and ruin days and sometimes weeks.

My deceased dad put it best.....If I won 20K my life would not changa a bit, but if I lost 5K I'd be so pissed at myself that I couldn't live with myself. He never gambled but I remember that statement and it still rings true today for myself.... Not that it stops me at all....LOL

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was born in a country where sports betting is completely legal and there's a betting shop on every high street

Way of life.... 

how does the story end? have you done well since 07 or no?

1996, I was 24 years old, I knew the packers were going to destroy the patriots, same way I knew that the 49ers were going to destroy the chargers in 94, Diference was I was more of a man and had big balls and big money in 1996, I bet a lousy 500 bucks at caliente sports book in San diego in 1994 on the 49ers I was not going to make the same mistake in 1996, I pounded Greenbay -13.5 for  22k all over Vegas and 5k in parlays with the over.

 

Nailed it, Opened up my first pizza joint, 6 years later I had 4 in San DIego, sold them all in 2004 and now own a very successfull sportsbar and restaurant in the Inland Empire, Moreno valley CA to be exact.

I still play but Im married now with a kid, so there is no more wild one shot bets like in my youth.

Im primarily a 500 dollar per game bettor in college and pro football, I play roughly 3 to 7 college games per week and 1 to 3 NFL games per week.

I always promise Ill stick around and post but after week 1 or 2 I just dont find the time, that and most of my plays are totals or 2nd half plays and most people dont like totals.

17 years old, my older friend started an account on bubbas casino.  hahaha..  he was winning a lot of money by not even capping games or knowing what it was to cap a game, just by going with his feels.  i figured i knew 10,000 times more about sports than he and gave it a try, betting small like 25 a game.  i started betting through him on there, then to parlaybook which i miss dearly when i turned 18 deposited a grand.  even when i lost i had so many referrals from betonsports forum it never felt like i did, which was good and bad thing.  havent stopped since, i have taken breaks because of bad runs or really good runs, but its in my blood.  never let it get in the way of my personal finances though.

Started off when my good buddy introduced me to his professional Horse Racing gambler. Couldn't really make good money as my bankroll was low. Later I got hooked on sports betting, found a tout site where I lost around $30,000 which I did not have. Took away two years of my young life which I paid off by working. Later, I went back to my guy in Las Vegas and got hooked up with some serious information out there. Begin to meet many guys and share/exchange information and run my business that way. After 5 years of experience I have became a professional gambler (I wouldn't be one if not for the information I get). And now, what can I say 'Life is good'. Cheers.

P.S. I would never recommend to do sport betting and go through everything I had to go through. Crazy roller coaster life. 

I was around 4 years old when my grandpa on my mom's side (best grandpa to ever hang out with ever) showed me the lines and totals of NFL games in the paper. From there I would routinely watch the early Saturday morning tout shows during the college/NFL seasons with Kelso Sturgeon, Jim Feist, Wayne Root, and Jack Snow/Al Bernstein as hosts decades ago.Basketball, baseball, and football odds have always been my passions in life along with my idol Michael J. Jordan.

My ultimate fantasy would be to be able to do it as a main source of income like the Alan Boston, Steve Fezzik, or Bill Walters' of the Nevada world but I've never had the bankroll to sustain the roller coaster ride involved in my passion. Let's face it Billy Walters made his money off the Computer Group system for a short period of time and man when you are winning big like that it is all about information as 4Kngur13 alludes to. Whether that information be statistical or news related it does not matter as long as it gives you a slight edge on a particular game against the best in Las Vegas. 

I've always believed I can do it because at 25 like anything you learn from the good and bad. But also because I believe I have enough patience and I have no desire to try and be a millionaire to be happy in my life

12 years ago come this august a faculty member at a private school i taught phys ed at. her husband and i were talkin about football and he gave me the ole parlay sheet. 5 bux on 4 teams i think. he brought in my change and i was off and runnin. 12 years later and i am still tickin. learned a ton. loves my totals.

16 years old.. didnt really know anything about betting andd that stuff..
there was a big cricket game between australia and england and australia had odds at like
2.05 or something.. and i asked my dad what that ment..
and he said
' it means you will double your money"
and went bilistic saying how there is no way australia is going to lose rah rah rah it was EASY money.
I tried to open a fake account that night so i could bet $100 (alot of money to me at the time) but i couldnt.. so anyway australia ended up winning and that made me think how easy i could double my money from gambling.. so the next moth i got an older friend to make and account in his name and i used it.. all through grade 12 i was gambling..i was even a bookie for some of them while in the mean time i was betting from my fone in class and shit.. sometimes throwing down $500 some weeks.. my friends thought i was crazy.. but i always had more money then them on the weekends.. but like every gambling story there is a down turn.. there were some weekends i couldnt go out at all because i had no money.. im probably down 3 grand in the last 18 months.. but it hasnt effected me one bit.. all teenagers do anyway is buy alcohol and clothes.. i have my own gambling account now that im 18 and im going to get a $5000 loan to start up a gambling system i have worked out.

Heres to the start of my life

Just live life to gamble...The rest is history 

You should probably quit while your still ahead. Don't take that 5k loan if you aren't winning already. just my opinion, but best of luck with your new life. I'll see you at the GA meetings. They are usually Sundays at 5. Let me know what step you are on.

So true. I agree 100%

 

thats funny that i found this post again and you said that, i decided against the loan.. and got a boring shitty job at a grocery store.. one afternoon i put a boring $40 parlay on 4 baseball games 2 australian football matches and a boxing match.. so a 7 team parlay so to speak.. with antonio tarver (boxing) being the highest odds at $4.00 all the teams hit, it was just up to tarver to win the boxing match .. the same day as the fight i was at work and the boss was being a real asshole, he told me to clean the floors, as i was doing it he told me infront of all the customs to get on my knees and do it..ive never been to sort of person to work a shitty job or clean.. i dunno if you've eve seen scarface, the scene where he quits his shitty job making sanwhiches.. he throws the white cloth and says " i retire".. well thats exactly what i did haha.
i left when home got ready, went to the casino to watch the fight.. i had no job and not much money.. sure enough taver wins in the 9th round and i won 3 grand.

i guess things have a way of working themselves out.

im doing alright now, ive decided to become a writer and see where that takes me.

uhh I was like 13 or 14 and I placed a 5$ bet on an NBA game online and won. Been doin it ever since

lost 5 bucks to my Dad on FSU-Florida.  I was nine.  It was every penny I had.  He took it from me, told me about "life lessons" and then walked away laughing.

I was in grade 5 and my catholic school teacher asked me to be in his NHL playoff pool.

His buddies showed up in our portable after school and we did a draft.... I remember picking 4th and grabbing Brian Trottier with my first pick and my sleeper was a rookie named Clark Gillies...

I came in 2nd place and he gave me a fucking trophy with my name on it!

The following year I was running a pool with my school buddies!

and as they say....... the rest is history!

Started in college gambling with money I didn't have. Never had to pay anything, but had a sick feeling many a time. Swore off gambling for about 8 years and then got back into it now that I actually have money to do it with. I do it just for fun though and don't put too much on the games.

Well I just started last week...bought in for $20 and built it to over $100 over the past 3 days...sort of hooked.

Let's see... There's are several sides to this coin...

Going to give this post another bump.