For a while there, about ten years back, just about everyone who opened a sportsbook made cash hand-over-fist. Now it's not so easy anymore. Sharper players who are much more educated as to spread-awareness aren't laying the lousy numbers they used to. The "squares" got much sharper in the last 5 to 8 years and the vig got narrower as books compete for the action.
Time changes everything, the more things change the more they come back around though too.
Think back to when we were kids in the 70's and 80's and who would have ever imagined #1, you could never leave your house and make money watching sports, #2 talking to people all over the country who can help you get even more information.
You would have never believed it in 1980.
Think back to when we were kids in the 70's and 80's and who would have ever imagined #1, you could never leave your house and make money watching sports, #2 talking to people all over the country who can help you get even more information.
You would have never believed it in 1980.
arty:
(Philly or New York!)
valueman said:
More Thieves around today as well, so more snouts in the trough. I was in Ladbrokes racing room the other Week and it would make Nasa look like a mini-cab office, thats where the accuracy comes from. As for more Mugs winning? apparently not, according to Friends in the Game, there's no end of dopes regularly emptying their sky rockets, so much so that the word "regular" has left the Bookmaking Language. :drink:
Sure it was a "tad" different then for sure. But one thing that has changed more than ANY other sinse the net came along is the Numbers.
Before the offshore and the internet it was realtively easy to find makers that were Always different by 2-3 points.
Now numbers are merely "painted" and ALL those days of middleing with 2-3 points are almost a thing of the past. As you can have 100 accounts at 100 different places and you MIGHT find 1 point difference, and i say might!
Before the offshore and the internet it was realtively easy to find makers that were Always different by 2-3 points.
Now numbers are merely "painted" and ALL those days of middleing with 2-3 points are almost a thing of the past. As you can have 100 accounts at 100 different places and you MIGHT find 1 point difference, and i say might!
