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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-11-2008

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:So what do they do when they have some game that is really lopsided on their books? Just gamble that in the long run they come out ahead? I mean, if I was booking bets, that's probably what I would do, because I wouldn't have the time to set up anything with someone in Vegas.

But, even a small local bookie could lay off bets with a bigger local bookie.

You tweak the lines to get action on the side not getting any betting.Thats what real bookies with a lot of clients do and thats what vegas does.

I agree that your strategy works but sometimes the line you take a lot of bets at early in the week isnt available later in the week so you might not be able to get that same number with a vegas bookie and risk losing to your clients and to the bookie you went with to even your betting out.

I just don't know a lot of people that do that.They tweak the lines and won't take bets on a certain side if they already have to many on that side.

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when you bet for money - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 12-11-2008

BIRD33 Wrote:You tweak the lines to get action on the side not getting any betting.Thats what real bookies with a lot of clients do and thats what vegas does.

I agree that your strategy works but sometimes the line you take a lot of bets at early in the week isnt available later in the week so you might not be able to get that same number with a vegas bookie and risk losing to your clients and to the bookie you went with to even your betting out.

I just don't know a lot of people that do that.They tweak the lines and won't take bets on a certain side if they already have to many on that side.

Yeah, I know they tweak the lines. I just know that in Dallas, when the Cowboys were doing really good years ago, it was tough to get a line worth a shit with a local bookie. They would be 3 or 4 points over the line in the paper. Same with some of the surrounding Big 12 football teams.

It just seems to me, that if I was a bookie, it would be a safer gamble to lay off at a better spread and lower my risk to either breaking even, taking the juice, or doubling my money.

But, I couldn't really pretend to know what they really do. I knew and know some, but wouldn't much believe what they told me anyway.

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-11-2008

Its hard to keep that business going without getting arrested or getting ripped off by another bookie or the mob.I know a guy younger than me that makes a shit load of money taking bets from basically my high school and people I golf with and the guy has to carry a folder around with him 24\7 to keep track because people call him at all hours of the day.

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when you bet for money - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 12-11-2008

BIRD33 Wrote:Its hard to keep that business going without getting arrested or getting ripped off by another bookie or the mob.I know a guy younger than me that makes a shit load of money taking bets from basically my high school and people I golf with and the guy has to carry a folder around with him 24\7 to keep track because people call him at all hours of the day.

edit: nevermind.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-11-2008

BIRD33 Wrote:Know anyone who does it?

yes, sure do

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-11-2008

I doubt it.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-11-2008

of course you do
anything you can't do, you think can't be done

you are a small-minded time clock puncher

:ccrap:

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-11-2008

I actually talk to bookies on a regular basis and none do this.I'm sure your expertise on this topic and never mentioning it before is not a desperate ploy to try to get one up on me.Pathetic.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-11-2008

why in heaven's name would i care what you do
get one up on you?? why would anyone care about such nonsense??
thanks for the laugh

are you thirty yrs old now??
do you think you have experienced evreything that is possible??
i didn't think so

you are incredibly immature if you are not still a teenager

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-12-2008

I just find it interesting you've never discussed betting here after the many times its been brought up and now you are an expert and know bookies who do things that I've never heard a bookie doing.yea I'm the immature one.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-12-2008

indeed you are

i know people who are professional gamblers
when they are not in vegas, there are people there who take of bidness for them
just because it is not your experience, don't negate the possibility

this is the type of thinking that brands you as immature
thanks for proving my point

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-12-2008

I'm happy to occupy the opposite end of any spectrum you are in.I like to call it the successful end.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-12-2008

as long as we ignore the truth, your statement works fine
thanks for making my point for me again

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-12-2008

Saying something over and over doesnt make it true.We can all read.

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-12-2008

coming from you, that is particularly funny
thanks for all the good laffs today, gotta run

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when you bet for money - who - 12-12-2008

I've never placed a bet with a bookie, played many of the football pick-ums where you pick from 4 to 15, choice of college and pro, i prefer the type of bet bird and I had straight up without any spots, at horse tracks I've seen the extreme underdog jump to even money just as the race starts.

thanks i've learned a little bit more

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-12-2008

The only way to make money at the track is on exacta's and trifectas.Laying $10 on a 20-1 horse rarely pays off.

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when you bet for money - BIRD33 - 12-12-2008

Heres a question for you degenerates..Whats the most you've made off a single bet?

Horse Racing: $285.00- $2 bet on a trifecta

Poker: $350-one hand in a cash game,still remember the hand-pair of kings 5 card stud

Football: $150 one game, $650 one weekend

Roulette: $350 on on black something or other.

Blackjack: $50 on one hand

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when you bet for money - who - 12-13-2008

Horse Racing: $900 split with my brother $2 to show don't remember the odds but it was at Fort Erie racetrack

Poker: back in the day I used to play in a $2/4 game, I put a few of my friends kids through college

Football: I've never collected on any big bets

Roulette: never played

Blackjack: never played

Slot Machines -

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when you bet for money - snarg - 12-13-2008

i just won 10 pesos in the mexican lotto

nobody has won the big one for three weeks now
it is up to 200 million pesos, i need to check my tickets
if i don't win soon, i will be moving out of my cardboard shack
if this happens i will be hanging my hammock between two palm trees on the beach

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