NBA and NCAA Season Long Hoops Chat - Hosted by The Peoples Champ, Featuring Expert BigD with many ongoing guest stars

This team, guys, I swear..... Cash Cow.

Always worth a look 

Half the Lakers are subjects of trade rumors and Lebron may make an appearance tonite to really screw things up. Give me the Pacers +3 please.

The Blazers are blowing teams out like the Warriors can do, and yet they fly under the radar. I'll give the 7.5 at home over the not so hot Heat. 

 

Locked in:

76ers +10.5...5u...ingame wager at HT down 72-55

Locked in:

76ers +11...2u...couldnt resist as my book just offered up the extra hook.   

with last nights trade does that now worry your Raps futures even more PB?    Philly is stacked now. 

What do you guys do when all your bets get destroyed over n over n over n over?

Some times just walk away. Is the right call. I did with poker a few years ago. I play occasional home game. But have not entered a casino for about a year and half now. 

I bet to often with locals up here.  Always the same bs. Even if I win I don't get paid. Always the same bs. Started to remember what do I gamble for.... seems it just some stupid drug habit now. Probably the next serious bet I make will be in Vegas. Cause that where this began too many years ago. And like to see what I used to feel . Don't know sac what to tell you but seems no matter what the action what the spread or what platform I never seem to win any more..... my frustration isn't with sports or cards or games. But the sports I really enjoyed do not seem to exist any longer. I stopped caring when I stopped watching I witnessed three games last football season. The championships and the super bowl. I watched a few games in the world series as well.... But I refuse to use any local books after super bowl.  And no real venue in New England closer than rhkde jsland. Tommorows I go back to work. Probably be the last post I make for a while.  

But you , bpicken,macwestie, sports analysis over the years has been a great read.... for that I thank you. My own flawed English is frustrating as typing on this mobile device. 

But I hear ya man. And thank you for this lost be back around march madness hope Stu can come up with a  prize to get my blood to rise again. I looked at the NCAAB page today and saw that the work needed to get a bracket to be in the top5% remebering all that wadtwd paper over the uears the complete break down of rhe 64 teams the endless calculations.... and for what???? A few dollars spent long ago..... 

Thanks for the reply Nature.

Sac, sorry to hear that bro. I feel you big time. I got destroyed in college football, and every word of what you said hits home. Almost felt like a waste of time being wrong so consistently. I was so mad at myself that I bought Rosetta Stone Spanish to make better use of my time. I actually still am learning. One hour a day, wake up at 5 am before work. But anyways, I was there for a minute. When I used to see stuff like that at the CBOT, we would encourage guys to go back to sim trading until they were consistently profitable and hitting their profit target for a couple weeks. I do the same here and will limit my plays and write down all the plays I would’ve been on if I was hot. Then when I get my confidence up, I go back l. Emotion sucks in this game bro. Take some time off and get your kind right. Come back strong. Monitor closely how you’re playing and what is wrong. I record everything and have a template for logging everything if you want one

They don't. I just win over and over and over. I start gambling at 5. Wagering on sports around around 4th or 5th grade. Since becoming an adult, turning 18, i've had one losing year. I'm 35. I started with Pro football but quickly began to specialize in college. Then I added NBA. Then college hoops. I was at first super intimidated by college hoops. Now I kill it. It's not rocket surgery. Much like college football, I prefer smaller schools. I pretty much bet the same schools over and over again. I identify the sleeper value early in the season and I ride it to the sunset. I still work, i've got a good job that I love, but I work less and less. I moved my family to the NW and I do this. Doing this well means going back to California less. I love home but i'm not good there. I party too much, do entirely too much cocaine. And i'm not in my 20's anymore. 40's coming on fast.

I like ODB's idea, Rosetta Stone. I'd like to get it to learn deutsche . I plan to take the wife her Vaterland next year. Even her English blood, her bloodline that's been here since like the 1500's, came to England from Germany in like the middle-ages or some shit.

Do you play the stock market, sac?

I likely am in the minority here thinking Harris is not as good as the media has recently hyped him up to be...this Philly team is internally flawed from top down...terrible GM, even worse coach...and now theyve built a team around Simmons who cant shoot. They messed up by not keeping Bellenili and Ilyasova, they should have dumped Reddick when they had the chance, then they acquired the ultimate team cancer in Butler...this franchise is going no where in my opinion...and Embiid will hopefully wake up and take his talents to the Warriors...i definitely am in the minority, but i want to see this Warriors team dominate the league for another decade or as long as Curry is on the team...to see a historic team like this in major sports is truly rare and its something i can definitely appreciate...

Getting back to the Raps division wagers i am sitting on, i still feel pretty good about it...i guess we shall see if the Conley Gasol rumors are true or not...i hope this team stands pat 

Get into it. Small. It will become a puzzle to solve just like capping and since there's money involved, you'll get the same rush. I've never really experienced the rush. Started too young. Maybe I did a little with my largest wagers but mostly it's always just been about money for me. It's always just been punching a time clock. I can skydive for a rush.

I forget. Big D's a great resource with this market stuff.