Misc The VCT Thread!

I'm still waitin for the uber-tout, r-e-dietz to tell us all his lifes-time w-l record across all sport over the course of his 4+ decade of touting strong, hey hey.

 

Well, first of all, I don't bet all sports. College football is more than 85% of my betting volume, not counting futures and hedges of those futures. But if you wanted a long-term view of my college and the NFL football results from 1982 to 1995, go collect issues of "Tipsters or Gypsters?" Also known as The McCusker Report, it was published in Las Vegas by former Seattle Times reporter Mike McCusker. "Tipsters or Gypsters?" -- at its peak -- monitored the results of roughly 120 handicappers. I've been in The Wise Guys Contest 30 years (I retired this year). Two games every week of every football season ATS for 30 years. Contact Playbook to verify that and my record. I suggest emailing Marc Lawrence or Marc Lawrence Jr.

As to some general overall 40-year stated record ATS of all wagers, tough to quantify in a simple manner. You'd have to decide whether or how to grade asymmetric middles shots where I have more on one side than the other. You'd have to decide how to grade pure middles shots where the wagers are balanced. Then you'd have to decide whether to count teaser wagers in the general ATS record. My lifetime NFL ATS record, not counting asymmetric middles shots and teasers, is between 53.5% and 54%. The reason I ballpark it is that I include McCusker Report numbers, but they are based on a specific line at a particular place in a 24 hour period in LV, and that was not the most favorable line. So anyone graded at 54% with McCusker was actually winning 1 to 2 percentage points higher long-term. College football, roughly 57% ATS lifetime.

In addition, I have been monitored by The Satellite Cable Handicap (out of Buffalo), by Handicappers' Report Card, and I've been in many public competitions under my own name.

And no, I don't sell anything and haven't sold anything for a decade or longer. I have partners, and I don't need any more partners.

 

What I get a kick out of at VCT, as they discuss KewlJ's sports betting and bonusing, is that it takes place in a thread called "Professional Sports Betting."

And yet, it appears that the only person who ever filed taxes as a professional sports bettor in that thread was (ahem) me. So you have a "Professional Sports Betting" thread whose primary feature is people who aren't professional sports bettors explaining why they are right to a professional sports bettor.

The only person in the latest kewlJ discussion who has any clue is AxelWolf, and frankly, he knows less than your average experienced sports bettor. I have accounts at the two offshores kewlJ mentioned, and I've had these accounts for 20+ years. But nobody asked my opinion. LOL. The naivete of these "APs" is comical. It's really bad when someone like me doesn't butt in and you just allow them to speculate and pontificate. They come across as less and less savvy the more you allow them to banter with each other.

 

I know what you mean. It's crazy over there. The dumazzes should stick to what they know about. Hey, they got this one idiot over there they call The Ditz . Claims to be a professional sports bettor. Appears to have some knowledge about it. Trouble is, he don't stick to what he knows. He's always posting in threads about shit he knows nothing about. You know, threads about shuffle machines, blackjack, slot AP, baccarat. Shit he don't know anything about. What can you do about an idiot like that?

 

You should probably use direct quotes where he does what you claim. Not sure the last time I posted about shuffle machines, blackjack (other than testing visual limits and table distances), slot AP, or baccarat. Nope. Of course, I'm sure if you had some examples on hand, you would have used them.

I'm a great believer in the Dirty Harry line from Magnum Force, "A man's gotta know his limitations."

If for example, I were on GWAE and someone asked me what I won at besides football, I'd say, well, I earned three varsity letters in high school and two in college at cross-country and track, but that's about it. I won a few races.

As far as gambling goes, I'm within 1K of even at both poker and fantasy sports lifetime, but it would be too much work to figure out which side of the ledger. And I don't really gamble at anything else.

I'm not one of them thar Leonardo Da APs, conquering the gambling world with freshman college math and my inimitable wits. I am ahead at college hoops and baseball and even hockey, but that's due to a handful of longshot futures, not actually betting games. I don't even know hockey rules, but when one of my partners said "bet this hockey team," I did. And they made it to the final that season. Ka-ching. Didn't watch a minute. As I said, I don't even understand the rules.

And I would pass a polygraph on anything in this post, as per usual.

 

Yes, direct quotes will work just fine. But you go first. You are always telling people to do this and do that. But you never do it yourself. For example, you recently said Shack bragged about his published NFL stats and not giving anyone else credit. Half Smoke showed that Shack had given credit and he challenged you to put up the quote of Shack bragging. How come you haven't put up the quote? Well, it's because you never practice what you preach.

But here's a link where you can go thru all of the ditz posts on VCT and see him interjecting himself in all kinds of gambling subjects that are not his expertise.

https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/search.php?searchid=5186661

Oh, and the math? It's not even college freshman level. It's more like 8th grade level. But it goes way over your head don't it.

 

AxelWolf on how UNKewLyingJ is an out and out fraud: If I had to ask myself and wonder why someone would stay and keep taking a pounding while taking into account all the bad things they claim have happened to them....

I would have to guess that it's all BS, therefore nothing bad has ever happened to them, and therefore there's no real reason to leave/ stop.