is over. thankfully i'm not a gambling addict and i still have things in my house

not a duplicate thread, not a profrane thread. want to discuss how everytime a team beats the spread or gains the lead that will pay the big bucks, some little silly stuff happens to make it a loss.

only lasted for one football season, i'm not gonna continue into basketball season

mainly because i like basketball a lot more, and think i'd lose all respect after i decide that the spread proves that basketball is rigged too

i was thinking of just doing prop bets, like who scores the first field goal, but i'm convinced that is rigged too. i wish congress would look into something important like football betting instead of stupid baseball and steroids

1/8/2008 12:10:08 AM

prop bets are the worst ever

1/8/2008 12:10:44 AM

A couple years ago I bet that during halftime of the super bowl a female breast would somehow be exposed.

I just had a gut feeling, and the bet was going off at 34:1, so I took a crack.

Damn that paid off well. Prop bets ftw.

[Edited on January 8, 2008 at 12:20 AM. Reason : .]

1/8/2008 12:20:28 AM

Quote :

"mainly because i like basketball a lot more, and think i'd lose all respect after i decide that the spread proves that basketball is rigged too "

of course it is, why else did you think the refs were there?

1/8/2008 12:28:41 AM

the only reason i'm gonna continue watching the NFL playoffs this year is because i've already invested about 4-5 months worth of weekends into watching football games. i used to only watch NCSU games and the occasional exciting game here and there.

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1/8/2008 1:07:40 AM

it just goes to show, the bookies are fucking smart

1/8/2008 4:06:44 AM

i had this realization last year. whether a team beats the spread or not is more or less a random variable with probability .5, factor in the juice you pay when you lose, and it's negative ev.....at least for like 99% of the people out there. i mean i've went on insane rushes, but it seems as soon as it's going really good you'll hit a real bad slump to basically even it out.

1/8/2008 4:41:50 AM

I never lost money, but I never did it to make BIG money.

I could see how you could do both easily however in hindsight.

1/8/2008 8:14:26 AM