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99% of the touts/sports handicapping services lose


99% of the touts, including the ones that you see in this movie are just marketers, in the long run they will take your money and will not make you money, in fact they will lose you money. They simply pry on gullible, clueless or desperate people with convincing and somewhat silly marketing tactics. You will never see these guys show a history of their track record or talk about their ROI. Its all about a made up winning record or short hot streak or just the play for the day that they would tout it as game of the day, week, month, year, century etc.

However, there are very few handicappers who treat sports betting just like stock market. They use proper money management and they will have detailed records of their picks, odds, units bet and all sort of analysis of the earnings. THink of it as hedgefund...why do people pay other guys to invest their money...because they don't have time or the skill so they used other reliable sources. It can be done with sports betting too. For example, take a look at the spreadsheet from bettingresource.

Sports betting is better than stock trading - http://www.bettingresource.com

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This is true (or close to true). I would say that the figure might be closer to 96%, but close enough. I am one of the few sports handicappers that actually wins. I am not asking anyone to take my word for it. I specialize in the NFL. I am a NFL-only handicapper. My straight plays go up on the ¨TRACK ME¨ page of my website 10 minutes after kickoff and stay up for 2 months. I give out my teaser picks for free, which people obviously view before the games start. Therefore my picks are DOCUMENTED and you know that I am telling you the truth. This season I am (as of the conclusion of week 16) a DOCUMENTED 70-34-3 (67.3%) on all of my plays. I am 45-20-3 (69.2%) on my straight plays and 25-14 on my teaser picks (almost all of which are 2 teams, 6 points at the standard -110).

I admittedly usually do not do as well as I have this season, but I am a proven, long-term winner. I am a DOCUMENTED 630-474-30 (57.1%) on all of my plays since the beginning of the 2006 NFL season. That is well over 1100 plays in nine NFL seasons. 57.1% long-term is very good, especially considering that at least 95% of people who bet on the NFL lose in the long-run, and hence can´t even win 52.38% of their plays. Nickel bettors who have bet all of my plays since the beginning of the 2006 NFL season have made a profit of $54,300. That is an average of more than $6000 per season. I am sure that most people would enjoy increasing their income by more than $6000 per year (or more like more than $6000 in 4 1/2 months, because that is how long the football season lasts).

My website is www.PickNFLWinners.com. I am the real deal. And yes, I use my real name, which is Steve ¨Cubby¨ Drumm.

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are you guys serious ? this reminds me of that scene in the movie lol

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Yes, i know some of those words. I know of them. I like this symbol % or this one ). They are nice.

People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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No one wins in sports betting over the long term betting many games a week unless they are fixing games...

The only way to win over the long term is to have the knowledge and intelligence to only bet games with bad lines.. Lines are set in order to try to get 50% of the bets on one side and 50% on the other - not to what the score should end as... Booking agencies only care about the juice as they strive for exact same amount bet on each side



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