I always promised myself if I quit posting at the Rx I would never do one of those gay good-bye threads. I always thought you should just quit posting and people would figure it out from there. With everything going on with me in Las Vegas attempting to gamble for a living and because of all the kind support from fellow posters who have told me they were rooting for me to succeed, I felt I owed an explanation why I am not going to be posting as much at the Rx for the time being. I for one do not want anyone to get the impression that anything has changed with me on the betting end, everything is going just great for me (though my last few days of betting have really sucked). <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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I will try and make this as short as possible (and you know that isn’t easy for me, LOL). I was hired on as a moderator at the Rx about 1.5 years ago. When I was brought in I was more or less told to keep posting quality type gambling threads and to keep my eye on the forum, like all the other mods do, more or less "policing " the site. I figured I was hired probably more because how passionate I was about gambling and the whole industry.<o></o>
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Up until 3 months ago I had the same title and job description, then I was told due to a heavy volume of registrations I was assigned another responsibility that I agreed to, looking back now maybe I should haven't agreed to this (let me add this was for the same pay, which isn’t a slam on anyone here at all, I just don’t want anyone thinking I agreed to more pay, for more responsibility and then didn’t follow thru with it). I was hesitant at first to accept this extra responsibility but trying to be a team player I agreed to it. In the 18 months I was here I never heard one criticism by anyone that I was doing a bad job or wasn’t putting in the time. There is no doubt in my mind I was pulling my weight and then some on the whole time aspect, as I was on the site the entire day long. I hope and think the Rx management feels the same way about that.<o></o>
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So I guess you would have to say I was quite surprised when I received a phone call from the Rx management that said due to the fact I wasn’t handling the back end portion of the job (registering newbies) that they decided it would be better to bring in someone else who wanted to do this part of the job and they would be releasing me from my moderator status. They said this was needed and no hard feelings towards me and I was completely fine with the decision. I felt the times when I would monitor the back end portion of the site, I felt that it was under control. Looking back I guess I never understood the importance of my role in this matter. I will be the 1<SUP>st</SUP> to admit it was a struggle for me to keep my eyes on this along with other things and so I neglected this part of the job. Like with everything in life though, it became a time issue. I guess I just bit off more then I could chew. It is has never been more apparent to me than now how important the use of my time is because I now have to "win" my paycheck every month, there are no guarantees in what I am doing and when it boiled down to it I had to prioritize things and ask myself what would have the single biggest effect on my bankroll, well that answer to me was obviously quite simple. <o></o>
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Being in management at my last job I always felt with every successful team each player has a clearly defined role. I believed first and foremost that it is extremely important that moderators bring good gambling content to a gambling forum and I tried my hardest to do that every single day. I also felt a mod must do what he could to help the other posters at the site with their gambling questions. Though I didn’t have all the answers I tried to show people they could win at betting on sports. I know 100% in my heart I took that part of the job as serious as anyone here could have as a moderator. I did all I could in trying to help everyone beat this very difficult game. I know there are hopefully quite a few guys who will back me up with that statement. So with that said, I have no regrets how I handled the “front end, on the board” portion of the job and from what I gathered the Rx didn’t either. <o></o>
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As for what I am going to do next. First off I am going to take a much needed semi-break from the forums for a little while. I think that would be a wise choice for a variety of reasons but once again it boils down to what is most important for me right now. I have really debated on if I should keep posting a blog/journal somewhere and after going back and reminiscing about my experiences that I have previously posted, I realized how important documenting and archiving this whole adventure has been for me. I am so happy I decided to do this. The reason I started writing the thread about gambling for a living in Las Vegas was I felt being a moderator of a gambling site, that it was important to share with others EVERYTHING I could about a subject that I think fascinates probably everyone that comes to this site...gambling for a living. I know I personally always wanted to hear how a normal everyday kind of person would fair in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1lace></st1:City> betting sports for a living. After the first month or so I thought about dropping the idea as it was just taking up too much of my time but once I looked and noticed the thread had over 6,000+ views for the month, I knew a lot of people were also very interested in this lifestyle. I felt it was my responsibility to the Rx to put the extra needed time and effort into the thread and I worked exceptionally hard on making that thread as thorough as it could be, at times spending easily over an hour on just one post, making sure it was a good, accurate and honest portrayal of what I was thinking/feeling at all times. I feel I “owed” that to everyone here at the Rx. When reflecting back on my thoughts on how I did things and reading some of the comments and questions from my fellow posters, it has no doubt made me a much better gambler. So I say thanks to everyone for the positive feedback, it meant a lot to me. After repeated requests from friends and family about what and how I am doing out here in Las Vegas I have opted it would be better for me to start writing a blog vs sending them to a gambling site to follow my progress (lets face it fellas, this is not the place you send your mother, LOL). I think doing the blog format also helps me go a little more into detail on some things that I couldn’t do here, so I look forward to doing that daily. I am also getting ready to start a pretty big new "project" that I was unsure I was going to take on because of my responsibility to the Rx throughout the day. This is a very exciting opportunity for me if I accept it. With limited time already in my day, I will be spending the majority of the time now doing the daily blog and working on paying my bills (making winning bets, LOL). I will try to pop in from time to time here to say hi when I am not so busy but this time of the year is my busiest from a betting standpoint. If anyone wants to get ahold of me or follow my progress then can do that by going to my blog which is at sportsbettingforaliving dot com. I will come back to the Rx daily and try and check my PM’s everyday and see if anyone wants to get a hold of me for any reasons. If something looks interesting on the forums I will try and pop in from time to time and give my two cents worth. Also if anyone is headed to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1lace></st1:City>, get a hold of me ahead of time and I would love to share a few beers (or in Dante’s case waters, just messing with you buddy). <o></o>
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Anyways that pretty much sums it up. I just wanted to clear the air on all this. There is no really story or much more to it then that. I have always prided myself on being an honest person on these boards, someone everyone here could trust was telling the truth as that isn’t always the thing unfortunately at these type places. I hope I didn’t “step” on anyone’s toes here at the Rx with what I have just posted. If so I completely apologize to them. I just hate rumors and wanted to make sure we are all on the same page with this. It is pretty cut and dry. When I joined the Rx team I did it for one big reason, it was because I felt it was the best gambling /forum on the internet. It was a fun site and I was ecstatic to just be a part of it. Eventually it was my hopes that I could maybe be a bigger part of the Rx’s future growth. So once again there are no hard feelings at all on my end. We had a nice long one hour conversation and they (Rx) explained their reasoning and they gave me a chance to tell them my “true” feelings on how I thought the site could be better. I thought that was great. I only wish I would have spoke up to someone about this sooner so they had a chance to know me better and see how much I cared about the site. Many times I debated on contacting others here about my thoughts on things, nothing bad but just my thoughts on improving some things, that would be my only regret, not ever taking the time to do that. You always want your employer to get to know you for who you are and I never quite felt like anyone did while I worked here. This is totally my fault and I take full blame for that.<o></o>
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I only wish the site and everyone here at the Rx the best of luck going forward. As for Wil and the other mods, I apologize if I made your job even 1% more difficult, it was never my intentions. I hope we can all stay friends. Good luck to the new mods who are coming in, I don’t know Hache Man much but I do know he can pick winners in a sport that I feel is the toughest to beat, the NBA. Anyone that can do that has my full respect. Good luck Hache. As for Betallsports, me and my finacee probably hung out more with him and his wife then any other couple at the last bash. In one word Betallsports is CARING. To me that sums him up. I think he is EXACTLY what the Rx needs from a moderator right now. I know he will do a great job. You can tell how some people like to be involved and BAS is one of those people. <o></o>
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I want to make 100% clear again that this was not at all my decision, so I have no ulterior motives and really truly wished I was still here working at the Rx and things could have worked out differently. It leaves me with an empty feeling knowing that I won’t be an important part of the great Rx team any longer. I know for some odd reason these separations can get really ugly at times. I just want everyone here at the Rx to know, I would never say anything bad about a place that has meant so much to my development not only as a gambler but I would also like to think as a person. I will see everyone a little further down the road. :howdy:<o></o>
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></o>I will try and make this as short as possible (and you know that isn’t easy for me, LOL). I was hired on as a moderator at the Rx about 1.5 years ago. When I was brought in I was more or less told to keep posting quality type gambling threads and to keep my eye on the forum, like all the other mods do, more or less "policing " the site. I figured I was hired probably more because how passionate I was about gambling and the whole industry.<o
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></o>Up until 3 months ago I had the same title and job description, then I was told due to a heavy volume of registrations I was assigned another responsibility that I agreed to, looking back now maybe I should haven't agreed to this (let me add this was for the same pay, which isn’t a slam on anyone here at all, I just don’t want anyone thinking I agreed to more pay, for more responsibility and then didn’t follow thru with it). I was hesitant at first to accept this extra responsibility but trying to be a team player I agreed to it. In the 18 months I was here I never heard one criticism by anyone that I was doing a bad job or wasn’t putting in the time. There is no doubt in my mind I was pulling my weight and then some on the whole time aspect, as I was on the site the entire day long. I hope and think the Rx management feels the same way about that.<o
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></o>So I guess you would have to say I was quite surprised when I received a phone call from the Rx management that said due to the fact I wasn’t handling the back end portion of the job (registering newbies) that they decided it would be better to bring in someone else who wanted to do this part of the job and they would be releasing me from my moderator status. They said this was needed and no hard feelings towards me and I was completely fine with the decision. I felt the times when I would monitor the back end portion of the site, I felt that it was under control. Looking back I guess I never understood the importance of my role in this matter. I will be the 1<SUP>st</SUP> to admit it was a struggle for me to keep my eyes on this along with other things and so I neglected this part of the job. Like with everything in life though, it became a time issue. I guess I just bit off more then I could chew. It is has never been more apparent to me than now how important the use of my time is because I now have to "win" my paycheck every month, there are no guarantees in what I am doing and when it boiled down to it I had to prioritize things and ask myself what would have the single biggest effect on my bankroll, well that answer to me was obviously quite simple. <o
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></o>Being in management at my last job I always felt with every successful team each player has a clearly defined role. I believed first and foremost that it is extremely important that moderators bring good gambling content to a gambling forum and I tried my hardest to do that every single day. I also felt a mod must do what he could to help the other posters at the site with their gambling questions. Though I didn’t have all the answers I tried to show people they could win at betting on sports. I know 100% in my heart I took that part of the job as serious as anyone here could have as a moderator. I did all I could in trying to help everyone beat this very difficult game. I know there are hopefully quite a few guys who will back me up with that statement. So with that said, I have no regrets how I handled the “front end, on the board” portion of the job and from what I gathered the Rx didn’t either. <o
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> </o>As for what I am going to do next. First off I am going to take a much needed semi-break from the forums for a little while. I think that would be a wise choice for a variety of reasons but once again it boils down to what is most important for me right now. I have really debated on if I should keep posting a blog/journal somewhere and after going back and reminiscing about my experiences that I have previously posted, I realized how important documenting and archiving this whole adventure has been for me. I am so happy I decided to do this. The reason I started writing the thread about gambling for a living in Las Vegas was I felt being a moderator of a gambling site, that it was important to share with others EVERYTHING I could about a subject that I think fascinates probably everyone that comes to this site...gambling for a living. I know I personally always wanted to hear how a normal everyday kind of person would fair in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
ffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1lace></st1:City> betting sports for a living. After the first month or so I thought about dropping the idea as it was just taking up too much of my time but once I looked and noticed the thread had over 6,000+ views for the month, I knew a lot of people were also very interested in this lifestyle. I felt it was my responsibility to the Rx to put the extra needed time and effort into the thread and I worked exceptionally hard on making that thread as thorough as it could be, at times spending easily over an hour on just one post, making sure it was a good, accurate and honest portrayal of what I was thinking/feeling at all times. I feel I “owed” that to everyone here at the Rx. When reflecting back on my thoughts on how I did things and reading some of the comments and questions from my fellow posters, it has no doubt made me a much better gambler. So I say thanks to everyone for the positive feedback, it meant a lot to me. After repeated requests from friends and family about what and how I am doing out here in Las Vegas I have opted it would be better for me to start writing a blog vs sending them to a gambling site to follow my progress (lets face it fellas, this is not the place you send your mother, LOL). I think doing the blog format also helps me go a little more into detail on some things that I couldn’t do here, so I look forward to doing that daily. I am also getting ready to start a pretty big new "project" that I was unsure I was going to take on because of my responsibility to the Rx throughout the day. This is a very exciting opportunity for me if I accept it. With limited time already in my day, I will be spending the majority of the time now doing the daily blog and working on paying my bills (making winning bets, LOL). I will try to pop in from time to time here to say hi when I am not so busy but this time of the year is my busiest from a betting standpoint. If anyone wants to get ahold of me or follow my progress then can do that by going to my blog which is at sportsbettingforaliving dot com. I will come back to the Rx daily and try and check my PM’s everyday and see if anyone wants to get a hold of me for any reasons. If something looks interesting on the forums I will try and pop in from time to time and give my two cents worth. Also if anyone is headed to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1lace></st1:City>, get a hold of me ahead of time and I would love to share a few beers (or in Dante’s case waters, just messing with you buddy). <o></o><o
></o>Anyways that pretty much sums it up. I just wanted to clear the air on all this. There is no really story or much more to it then that. I have always prided myself on being an honest person on these boards, someone everyone here could trust was telling the truth as that isn’t always the thing unfortunately at these type places. I hope I didn’t “step” on anyone’s toes here at the Rx with what I have just posted. If so I completely apologize to them. I just hate rumors and wanted to make sure we are all on the same page with this. It is pretty cut and dry. When I joined the Rx team I did it for one big reason, it was because I felt it was the best gambling /forum on the internet. It was a fun site and I was ecstatic to just be a part of it. Eventually it was my hopes that I could maybe be a bigger part of the Rx’s future growth. So once again there are no hard feelings at all on my end. We had a nice long one hour conversation and they (Rx) explained their reasoning and they gave me a chance to tell them my “true” feelings on how I thought the site could be better. I thought that was great. I only wish I would have spoke up to someone about this sooner so they had a chance to know me better and see how much I cared about the site. Many times I debated on contacting others here about my thoughts on things, nothing bad but just my thoughts on improving some things, that would be my only regret, not ever taking the time to do that. You always want your employer to get to know you for who you are and I never quite felt like anyone did while I worked here. This is totally my fault and I take full blame for that.<o
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> </o>I only wish the site and everyone here at the Rx the best of luck going forward. As for Wil and the other mods, I apologize if I made your job even 1% more difficult, it was never my intentions. I hope we can all stay friends. Good luck to the new mods who are coming in, I don’t know Hache Man much but I do know he can pick winners in a sport that I feel is the toughest to beat, the NBA. Anyone that can do that has my full respect. Good luck Hache. As for Betallsports, me and my finacee probably hung out more with him and his wife then any other couple at the last bash. In one word Betallsports is CARING. To me that sums him up. I think he is EXACTLY what the Rx needs from a moderator right now. I know he will do a great job. You can tell how some people like to be involved and BAS is one of those people. <o
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> </o>I want to make 100% clear again that this was not at all my decision, so I have no ulterior motives and really truly wished I was still here working at the Rx and things could have worked out differently. It leaves me with an empty feeling knowing that I won’t be an important part of the great Rx team any longer. I know for some odd reason these separations can get really ugly at times. I just want everyone here at the Rx to know, I would never say anything bad about a place that has meant so much to my development not only as a gambler but I would also like to think as a person. I will see everyone a little further down the road. :howdy:<o
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