Been posting around here for a couple months, many know me through my posts, I assume many do not. I launched a blog recently and decided to get my story out there. Although it did not end in millions of dollars in riches like so many do, I ended up with a potential life long investment and proved my case infront of some of the biggest players in the gaming industry today. This will be the first of many to come, tough to tell a year story in just a single sitting. Here is the basic outline, along with photos. As always I look forward to sharing my insight with everyone and continuing to live the life of bets, booze and broads for as long as I may live.
Feedback is welcome as always in my threads.
Who Is The Vegas Jack?
Ill be honest, I thought Trinidad was located near Asia.
It was not until I came home from the sports bar and connected to the internet with my feet in the pool at beautiful Santa Maria Del Mar, Bavaro, Dominican Republic. What started off as a vacation to celebrate finishing high school, quickly turned into one hell of a joy ride around the Caribbean.
After stumbling through high school, I passed up going to university and worked for a group of custom concrete contractors over the course of two months and managed to save up just over $3,000. To this day I still couldn’t tell you the difference between a monkey and a socket wrench, but somehow I did a pretty damn good job that summer. I had never worked at a job before with the goal of saving money. I slung clubs out of the back shop at a golf course in the city during junior high and made a couple hundred bucks a month. Enough not to have to ask my parents for money. Having $3,000 in the bank was sort of a crazy feeling, seems weird to say that, but I was over the moon. After bouncing from possible destination to possible destination, somehow I ended up picking Bavaro, Dominican Republic. I didn’t speak a word of Spanish, I had never been on an airplane, I had never left the country. I figured, what is the worst that could happen?
Graduation Photo - Three Months Prior To Opening At RIU Palace
I rented a condo that was next to one of the best beaches in the Caribbean and some how got away with paying $600 a month for it, plus utilities. I spent all of the first month sitting on the beach soaking everything in. Thinking back on everything, the beach was not the best part of it all. The one vivid memory I have of the first month was having ESPN. Growing up in Canada, I never had access to ESPN. Canada has TSN, which is an affiliate for ESPN, but instead of covering real sports like football, basketball and baseball, they cover hockey, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Its sick. Rather than streaming the ESPN feed on my computer, I was able to sit on the couch and watch it, without ad’s on the bottom of the screen and any risk of “buffering” showing up on the bottom of the screen. I was in heaven, literally.
Inside Of My Condo In Bavaro, Dominican Republic
Private Swimming Pool In The Front Yard
View From Living Room Balcony
A Week Or Two Prior To Launching In The RIU
I didn’t go out after dark for nearly a month after arrival. There were no street lights, I couldn’t speak the language and everyone from back home assured me that a loud mouth, white, blue eyed individual like myself would be robbed and likely have the piss beat out of me if I were to go out after dark. I remember, the first day of being in the country, I went to the market around six o clock to grab food for. For those of you who have never been, the sun sets every day at six o clock. If you have been in Canada, the earliest the sun goes down is six oclock for one month of the year and the rest of the time its usually seven or later. The sunset is also slow and gradual. I went into the market just before six, after translating things into English, I opened the door twenty minutes after six, it was pitch black. In the Dominican Republic, when the sun sets, it takes no more than five minutes. A day earlier I was sitting in my home in Canada, now I was running as fast as I could down the streets of Bavaro clutching bread, froot loops, milk and spaghetti like it was early 1940’s in Russia and these were the weekly rations.
It was at the end of my first month that I noticed these two French men from Canada were constantly bringing home some of the best looking most amazing girls every single night. The internet connection was not strong enough to go through the cement walls so you had to sit by the tropical pool to get a internet connection strong enough to use Skype, watch football games ect. Each night I was up until midnight watching the games, and each night these two guys kept bringing home girl after girl. Eventually I tagged along with them to explore the night life Punta Cana had to offer.
Drinking
Joined In With The Band...
Up to that night, I had been on a couple dates, kissed a few girls but never anything serious. Hell I had just turned 18 and spent 12 years in a town with 2100 people. I woke up the next morning in a hotel downtown Veron in a bed with two girls (presumably hookers). There were beer bottles all over the place, things smelt AWFUL and I am sure a lot of other things were going on, but I never stopped to look. I ran outside, caught a motoconcho home and slept through NFL Sunday for the first time in my entire life.
Unfortunately…no photos.
This adventure started everything off. I began going out each night, and most importantly I discovered the walk in sports gambling shops located on the beach.
Punta Cana is famous for a 22 mile stretch of white crystal sand beach. Along the beach there are seventy-five 5* hotels. Between each hotel, there are little towns where all the foreigners have condos. Somewhere in-between there are locals that live. Along the 22 mile stretch of beach, there is 107 locations where you can use cash to place a sports bet. These places are like places you have never seen. There are locals who spend the entire day wagering on baseball betting anywhere from $1-$5 and use this as their rent and food money. (Yes it is that cheap for the locals to live). There are also people walking in with briefcases of money betting anywhere from $2,000-$200,000 a game. It was all paid in cash, it was all tax free and there were no records of the bets. Sports Betting has become big enough to rival the drug trade in recent years in Punta Cana.
I began betting into week three of the NFL season. I had just over $2,000 to my name and begun playing $70-$100 per game. By week seven, my bankroll had grown to just over $7,000. The thing about all these shops were that they were all independently run. For a specific game, you could find anywhere from 30-40 different lines.
Fancy Isn't It?
Betting Window...Believe It Or Not, Thousands Of Dollars Are Behind The Plain Door and Plexi-Glass Window.
I took advantage of these lines by middling numerous games. I remember playing a Eagles 49ers Sunday Night game, I had the Eagles -2.5, -2 and -1.5 parlayed with Over 40, as well as San Francisco +3.5 and +4 Over 40. Philly won 27-24 on a FG as time expired. I hit five parlay’s in one game. Needless to say, I woke up at that old dreary hotel in Veron again the next morning.
Some Of My Bigger Wagers...
Betting On The Beach.
In November, I caught my next big break. I had a new neighbor move in. His name was Richard Williams, a large Englishman. It turned out that Richard was the owner of Caribbean Gaming Solutions. For those of you not familiar with CGS, they provide all of these little gaming outlets on the beach, along with major resort chains with gaming machines and software. They developed the Mosino betting platform which is the first ever virtual hand held casino that is wired in with an online casino. If you can picture an iPad that is an online casino which you load up via front desk at your hotel, you have a Mosino.
I still am not sure how I did it, but I sold Richard on sports betting. His company had previously never offered it, their poison was strictly casino games. I convinced him to let me introduce sports betting to one of his little betting shops, located in the Riu Palace Resort. This room was located in on the second floor and was at the very back of a sports bar. There was a bank of nine slot machines, in a room no bigger than 15 feet wide and 50 feet long. At one end there was a cashiers desk where I sat. Behind it, I put up a white board, taped up lines and began writing odds. It is identical to the scene from Casino where Sam places a wager in a back room of a pool hall. Infact, it is where I got the idea from. Kind of childish looking back on things, but really it was all so real to me, it was bizzare.
The slot machines brought in close to $5,000 of revenue. The sportsbook brought in just over $15,000. I got paid $1,500 to spend my days living, eating and enjoying all the amenities of a five star resort. Sold on the idea, Richard planned to fly me out to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. At the time I didn’t think anything of it. Hell, I had just over $8,000 in my pocket and I was getting paid even more to fly into a country off the coast of Venezuela and set the lines for football and basketball.
Sam Roethstein
Small Book At The RIU
I had a plane ticket emailed to me the morning of December 23rd, I was to fly from Santo Domingo to Isle de Margarita that evening. It turned out that as a gift for doing over $25,000 of profit in the last 40 days, I got to fly to a resort island off the coast of Venezuela to spend Christmas in a five star resort. As long as I live, I will never see better looking women, drink or eat more. I remember placing over $1100 of bets online at Pinnacle on Christmas Day NBA games. I didn’t find out the scores until Boxing Day evening. This resort paid girls to roam the pool sides and bars to ensure their guests are having the best possible time they can be. I won’t lie, I could not of had a better time.
Can't Beat This.
December 28th, I touched down in Port of Spain. By the evening of the 29th I was up and running at the Palms Casino in Maraval, Port of Spain. I had a room that had six slot machines, a black jack and three card poker room. I had six televisions along the wall and two white boards behind a desk in the corner displaying the lines. I was in control of the surveillance computers and oversaw all gaming activity in the room off from the casino. My office had two computer screens along with a TV that had DirecTV with Sunday Ticket…not to mention ESPN and ESPN2. I was in absolute heaven. I had a apartment in a gated community, I don’t recall ever being there for any reason besides showering
I ran the book at the Palms for a couple of months and eventually did just over $200,000 in total business. I returned home to Canada in the Summer of 2011 as my health insurance and visa ran out. I made just over $20,000 that football season off my original $2,000 bankroll. I returned home to Canada with $10,000. After doing some calculations, I figured between plane tickets, girls, booze, food, rent and all other expenses, I spent around $60,000, at least half of which were thrown in as free gifts.
I was successful then, and will be in sports betting for a long time due to my approach. Sports Betting has become more about perception then anything else these days. Concrete information used to be the determining factor in where the line was set. Now it is about, where are people going to bet if they see the line at X. With so many websites offering free advice, trends, stats and previews, sportsbooks base their lines on what the people see, and not what the people know. Today sports betting is filled with brainwashed degenerates who are hell bent on all the best “trends” “stats” and “systems”. The days of playing a team because they have the better motivational, situational and positional match-ups are long gone. I have an extremely keen sense of projection game flow, along with reading the concrete information correctly, as well as decifering the bullshit posted online to find the perception books are projecting and using it to my advantage. Often times my lines were a point or two off of where Las Vegas had, and more times then not, the lines moved to where I had them posted. Put me head to head with a sports bettor and I can give him a line he can’t resist and I will still bury him every time.
If you want to win, you must change your ways, period.
View From My Home In Trinidad - Everything Is Surrounded By Jungle.
Today CGS has twelve locations. Trinidad & Tobago (three), Dominican Republic (three), Venezuela (two), Jamaica (one), Antigua (one), Bahamas (two). Within the next two years, the Mosino hand held gaming device license will be approved and will have full sports betting and live streaming television compatibility. These will be available across 100 resorts in the Caribbean and should cater to an audience of 80,000 people directly, making it the biggest gaming platform in the entire world.
Although I am not living in the Caribbean currently, I still advise odds each and every week for NFL, NCAA football along with NBA and NCAA Basketball for each of the 12 locations.
At the age of 18, I left the country for the first time in my entire life with $2,000 in my pocket. I spent the next year running a major offline sportsbook in a country I had never heard of while attending parties and being set up with girls and gifts from some of the biggest players in the Caribbean gaming industry. As far as anyone is aware, I was the youngest oddsmaker to ever run a licensed sportsbook in the Caribbean. My 20th birthday is on the horizon, lets hope things keep on, keeping on. If life is a football game, I am just past the opening kickoff, there is still 59 minutes and change left.
Lady Luck Hangs Out With Those Best Prepared.
Feedback is welcome as always in my threads.
Who Is The Vegas Jack?
Ill be honest, I thought Trinidad was located near Asia.
It was not until I came home from the sports bar and connected to the internet with my feet in the pool at beautiful Santa Maria Del Mar, Bavaro, Dominican Republic. What started off as a vacation to celebrate finishing high school, quickly turned into one hell of a joy ride around the Caribbean.
After stumbling through high school, I passed up going to university and worked for a group of custom concrete contractors over the course of two months and managed to save up just over $3,000. To this day I still couldn’t tell you the difference between a monkey and a socket wrench, but somehow I did a pretty damn good job that summer. I had never worked at a job before with the goal of saving money. I slung clubs out of the back shop at a golf course in the city during junior high and made a couple hundred bucks a month. Enough not to have to ask my parents for money. Having $3,000 in the bank was sort of a crazy feeling, seems weird to say that, but I was over the moon. After bouncing from possible destination to possible destination, somehow I ended up picking Bavaro, Dominican Republic. I didn’t speak a word of Spanish, I had never been on an airplane, I had never left the country. I figured, what is the worst that could happen?
I rented a condo that was next to one of the best beaches in the Caribbean and some how got away with paying $600 a month for it, plus utilities. I spent all of the first month sitting on the beach soaking everything in. Thinking back on everything, the beach was not the best part of it all. The one vivid memory I have of the first month was having ESPN. Growing up in Canada, I never had access to ESPN. Canada has TSN, which is an affiliate for ESPN, but instead of covering real sports like football, basketball and baseball, they cover hockey, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Its sick. Rather than streaming the ESPN feed on my computer, I was able to sit on the couch and watch it, without ad’s on the bottom of the screen and any risk of “buffering” showing up on the bottom of the screen. I was in heaven, literally.
I didn’t go out after dark for nearly a month after arrival. There were no street lights, I couldn’t speak the language and everyone from back home assured me that a loud mouth, white, blue eyed individual like myself would be robbed and likely have the piss beat out of me if I were to go out after dark. I remember, the first day of being in the country, I went to the market around six o clock to grab food for. For those of you who have never been, the sun sets every day at six o clock. If you have been in Canada, the earliest the sun goes down is six oclock for one month of the year and the rest of the time its usually seven or later. The sunset is also slow and gradual. I went into the market just before six, after translating things into English, I opened the door twenty minutes after six, it was pitch black. In the Dominican Republic, when the sun sets, it takes no more than five minutes. A day earlier I was sitting in my home in Canada, now I was running as fast as I could down the streets of Bavaro clutching bread, froot loops, milk and spaghetti like it was early 1940’s in Russia and these were the weekly rations.
It was at the end of my first month that I noticed these two French men from Canada were constantly bringing home some of the best looking most amazing girls every single night. The internet connection was not strong enough to go through the cement walls so you had to sit by the tropical pool to get a internet connection strong enough to use Skype, watch football games ect. Each night I was up until midnight watching the games, and each night these two guys kept bringing home girl after girl. Eventually I tagged along with them to explore the night life Punta Cana had to offer.
Up to that night, I had been on a couple dates, kissed a few girls but never anything serious. Hell I had just turned 18 and spent 12 years in a town with 2100 people. I woke up the next morning in a hotel downtown Veron in a bed with two girls (presumably hookers). There were beer bottles all over the place, things smelt AWFUL and I am sure a lot of other things were going on, but I never stopped to look. I ran outside, caught a motoconcho home and slept through NFL Sunday for the first time in my entire life.
Unfortunately…no photos.
This adventure started everything off. I began going out each night, and most importantly I discovered the walk in sports gambling shops located on the beach.
Punta Cana is famous for a 22 mile stretch of white crystal sand beach. Along the beach there are seventy-five 5* hotels. Between each hotel, there are little towns where all the foreigners have condos. Somewhere in-between there are locals that live. Along the 22 mile stretch of beach, there is 107 locations where you can use cash to place a sports bet. These places are like places you have never seen. There are locals who spend the entire day wagering on baseball betting anywhere from $1-$5 and use this as their rent and food money. (Yes it is that cheap for the locals to live). There are also people walking in with briefcases of money betting anywhere from $2,000-$200,000 a game. It was all paid in cash, it was all tax free and there were no records of the bets. Sports Betting has become big enough to rival the drug trade in recent years in Punta Cana.
I began betting into week three of the NFL season. I had just over $2,000 to my name and begun playing $70-$100 per game. By week seven, my bankroll had grown to just over $7,000. The thing about all these shops were that they were all independently run. For a specific game, you could find anywhere from 30-40 different lines.
I took advantage of these lines by middling numerous games. I remember playing a Eagles 49ers Sunday Night game, I had the Eagles -2.5, -2 and -1.5 parlayed with Over 40, as well as San Francisco +3.5 and +4 Over 40. Philly won 27-24 on a FG as time expired. I hit five parlay’s in one game. Needless to say, I woke up at that old dreary hotel in Veron again the next morning.
In November, I caught my next big break. I had a new neighbor move in. His name was Richard Williams, a large Englishman. It turned out that Richard was the owner of Caribbean Gaming Solutions. For those of you not familiar with CGS, they provide all of these little gaming outlets on the beach, along with major resort chains with gaming machines and software. They developed the Mosino betting platform which is the first ever virtual hand held casino that is wired in with an online casino. If you can picture an iPad that is an online casino which you load up via front desk at your hotel, you have a Mosino.
I still am not sure how I did it, but I sold Richard on sports betting. His company had previously never offered it, their poison was strictly casino games. I convinced him to let me introduce sports betting to one of his little betting shops, located in the Riu Palace Resort. This room was located in on the second floor and was at the very back of a sports bar. There was a bank of nine slot machines, in a room no bigger than 15 feet wide and 50 feet long. At one end there was a cashiers desk where I sat. Behind it, I put up a white board, taped up lines and began writing odds. It is identical to the scene from Casino where Sam places a wager in a back room of a pool hall. Infact, it is where I got the idea from. Kind of childish looking back on things, but really it was all so real to me, it was bizzare.
The slot machines brought in close to $5,000 of revenue. The sportsbook brought in just over $15,000. I got paid $1,500 to spend my days living, eating and enjoying all the amenities of a five star resort. Sold on the idea, Richard planned to fly me out to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. At the time I didn’t think anything of it. Hell, I had just over $8,000 in my pocket and I was getting paid even more to fly into a country off the coast of Venezuela and set the lines for football and basketball.
I had a plane ticket emailed to me the morning of December 23rd, I was to fly from Santo Domingo to Isle de Margarita that evening. It turned out that as a gift for doing over $25,000 of profit in the last 40 days, I got to fly to a resort island off the coast of Venezuela to spend Christmas in a five star resort. As long as I live, I will never see better looking women, drink or eat more. I remember placing over $1100 of bets online at Pinnacle on Christmas Day NBA games. I didn’t find out the scores until Boxing Day evening. This resort paid girls to roam the pool sides and bars to ensure their guests are having the best possible time they can be. I won’t lie, I could not of had a better time.
December 28th, I touched down in Port of Spain. By the evening of the 29th I was up and running at the Palms Casino in Maraval, Port of Spain. I had a room that had six slot machines, a black jack and three card poker room. I had six televisions along the wall and two white boards behind a desk in the corner displaying the lines. I was in control of the surveillance computers and oversaw all gaming activity in the room off from the casino. My office had two computer screens along with a TV that had DirecTV with Sunday Ticket…not to mention ESPN and ESPN2. I was in absolute heaven. I had a apartment in a gated community, I don’t recall ever being there for any reason besides showering
I ran the book at the Palms for a couple of months and eventually did just over $200,000 in total business. I returned home to Canada in the Summer of 2011 as my health insurance and visa ran out. I made just over $20,000 that football season off my original $2,000 bankroll. I returned home to Canada with $10,000. After doing some calculations, I figured between plane tickets, girls, booze, food, rent and all other expenses, I spent around $60,000, at least half of which were thrown in as free gifts.
I was successful then, and will be in sports betting for a long time due to my approach. Sports Betting has become more about perception then anything else these days. Concrete information used to be the determining factor in where the line was set. Now it is about, where are people going to bet if they see the line at X. With so many websites offering free advice, trends, stats and previews, sportsbooks base their lines on what the people see, and not what the people know. Today sports betting is filled with brainwashed degenerates who are hell bent on all the best “trends” “stats” and “systems”. The days of playing a team because they have the better motivational, situational and positional match-ups are long gone. I have an extremely keen sense of projection game flow, along with reading the concrete information correctly, as well as decifering the bullshit posted online to find the perception books are projecting and using it to my advantage. Often times my lines were a point or two off of where Las Vegas had, and more times then not, the lines moved to where I had them posted. Put me head to head with a sports bettor and I can give him a line he can’t resist and I will still bury him every time.
If you want to win, you must change your ways, period.
Today CGS has twelve locations. Trinidad & Tobago (three), Dominican Republic (three), Venezuela (two), Jamaica (one), Antigua (one), Bahamas (two). Within the next two years, the Mosino hand held gaming device license will be approved and will have full sports betting and live streaming television compatibility. These will be available across 100 resorts in the Caribbean and should cater to an audience of 80,000 people directly, making it the biggest gaming platform in the entire world.
Although I am not living in the Caribbean currently, I still advise odds each and every week for NFL, NCAA football along with NBA and NCAA Basketball for each of the 12 locations.
At the age of 18, I left the country for the first time in my entire life with $2,000 in my pocket. I spent the next year running a major offline sportsbook in a country I had never heard of while attending parties and being set up with girls and gifts from some of the biggest players in the Caribbean gaming industry. As far as anyone is aware, I was the youngest oddsmaker to ever run a licensed sportsbook in the Caribbean. My 20th birthday is on the horizon, lets hope things keep on, keeping on. If life is a football game, I am just past the opening kickoff, there is still 59 minutes and change left.
