What are the pros and cons in entering contests?

Thanks for the input. :toast:

pros : possibly winning one

cons : possibly losing

Pros you could spend 20 hours a week on your computer
and make $1.000 a year or go out and do some side work
for 40 hours and make $1.000. Whats more fun?

cons no life.:toast:

If you have the time, there is no downside!!!!!! There is an amazing amount of free money being given away. Why not take a shot at some of it?

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No Joking or Tongue-in-cheek, having a go at posters like Tinofcoco for nothing else to do, here is my thoughts.

I have been in Jman's pick 4 contest and although its a good contest, it doesnt suit me. My betting strategy is based on eliminating games that are too complex quickly and using the extra time to establish the stake on the others. A case in point was this week, I had Washington and Minnesota as plays, no others. Instead of spending more time coming to a stake and trading on Betfair in those games, I found myself , not for the first time this year, going back over games I had found no edge, to try to come up with another Two picks. Like Newport said, the pride of the contest goes above the reality, but like evereything else, it has to be put in perspective.

Only through doing the wrong moves do you find your niche, things like for me, not looking at spreads till Wednesday, checking who's bringing people in from the practice squad on Tuesdays. If the Contest doesnt effect your overall thinking then its OK, a bit like why I give up Future bets, they interferred with my weekly thinking.

I don't think contests are generally a good barometer on what is going on in the real gambling world...for many posters...having said that, I have had an awful football season, in the contest and in general....just wasn't my year...there is still January.

Brock said:

Pros you could spend 20 hours a week on your computer
and make $1.000 a year or go out and do some side work
for 40 hours and make $1.000. Whats more fun?

cons no life.:toast:

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If you can call making between 20,000 and 30,000 a year playing contests child's play.........you are much wealthier than me.

What could be sweeter than beating the shrink out of a hundy and Marty out of fifty bucks this football season.

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-K1

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