According to 538, at least, that's what has been happening.
Yes, it's happening in legal, state-sanctioned sports betting, but my comments here have been entirely about the underground betting market. If you go back up-thread to my first comment, you'll understand.
Are you telling me that Fat Tony and Uncle Vito won't ban you if you win on a regular basis because you're too smart for their games?
That is correct. First of all, bookmakers have gotten incredibly good at setting the line. Almost all the time, the same amount of money comes down on either side. When it doesn't, they lay their bets off on a bigger book.
It all evens out, but the vigorish is forever. Ten points on every bet, win or lose. The house literally cannot be beat. And big winners just get more people interested in placing a bet.
A legal casino has a much larger margin than Fat Tony and Uncle Vito. A bigger nut to cover.
"Win too much" as in win too often, not win big occasionally. The winning is fine if its within acceptable probabilities. But if you are being "too smart" and winning too often due to your better preparation and analysis, that's not so tolerable.
Still no. They don't make their money from wins and losses, but from the vigorish. If you want to win $100, you have to bet $110 (on a straight-up proposition). If the money gets too heavy, they lay it off on a bigger book. They're not going to lose.
I'm shocked at how many otherwise savvy Slashdotters don't really understand how bookies work.
Yes, if you win too much the black market operators break your legs.
Absolute nonsense. There is a time-honored tradition of small-time bookies laying off action on bigger bookies, going right up the chain. They don't make their money on your wins or losses, but on the "vig". They get a small slice of all the action. No reputable bookie would ever harm a winner. Violence only enters into it if you go on the arm (credit) for a bet and don't pay your losses. Even then, it's the threat more than the actual violence.
Bookies love winners, because they're great advertising. They do not like losers who cannot pay.
I got $50 that says there will be blackmarket workarounds for this.
I grew up around bookies. There was a social club around the corner from my house where you could get a bet down, and everyone from the local bartender to the local barber had a shirt pocket filled with slips of paper of action they'd taken from working guys.
It's funny when vice becomes sanitized for public consumption. It loses a little something. Sure, poor people and degenerate gamblers won't be able to help themselves from lining up at the government-sanctioned betting parlors, but the business around the margins won't be going anywhere. It'll become tax designed to redistribute wealth upward. but the ones who know will always be able to find some honest crook to take their action.
ok well fuck you, I don't driv and I use pot: i don't smoke it, i vaporize. Quit drinking all together. cannabis vapor is a really good, not terribly hazardous to health high. Driving when under the influence of anything is irresponsible, and taking everyone with stroke like that is dangerous and offensive. smoking is bad for you, regardless of what you smoke. Vapor and edibles bring you all kinds of joys alcohol can't, and without being hungover, maybe supplement with some mushrooms now and then.:)
One thing vaping and edibles will never do, and that's make you not a raging asshole.
Also last i heard, Colorado has lethal lethal accidents now with more ppl stoned than drunk.
Any that requires strategy, tactics, or psychology would qualify as not "just applied mechanics combined with some physics." So, nearly all sports really.Ah, you added a word to comment to prove it wrong. Well done.
ay whatever else you want about the show, it showed an oddball coolness to geekdom.
It did for the first season or two, but then it became just another cloying sitcom. The geeky references became more obvious and the writing became subpar. But those first couple of seasons were really good.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but I definitely told you so. Dude is fucked. Regardless of whether or not the SEC chooses to prosecute, they're going to be keeping a mighty close regulatory eye on him from now on.
It's a shame, too, since I was just starting to like the guy after hearing that he hangs out with Azealia Banks and drops acid on the regular.
Agreed. I know for a fact my twitter is shaddow banned and ive had numerous posts on FB removed and banned a number of times for innocent posts simply for going against groupthink.
Do you have any evidence besides that you feel that way?
You understand that the new FB algorithm works so that if your "friends" don't engage with you in any way (reply, liking your post, etc), they will start to see less of your posts, right? Maybe the problem isn't the opinions you express, but the fact that your friends don't really want to hear from you and don't really care what you have to say.
I'm not so sure. Yeah, this is a science oriented forum, but it's also a forum with an aging population. And as people get older they get more conservative. Less emphatic. Funny that; I read somewhere science has found that the part of your brain associated with empathy atrophies in old age...
You make good points, but I believe that empathy is like a muscle. The more you use it, the longer it stays active. There are few things in life that will rejuvenate the mind and body and renew the spirit like going out and doing something for someone else.
Absolutely!! How could government possibly get any better than Pelosi and Feinstein??
I'm not sure if you're maybe from elsewhere and unfamiliar with how governments work in the US, but Pelosi and Feinstein are representatives of California or a California district in the federal government - in Washington DC. They are not "California government". See, states each have their own government, and California's is doing great, sweetie.
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Yes, it's happening in legal, state-sanctioned sports betting, but my comments here have been entirely about the underground betting market. If you go back up-thread to my first comment, you'll understand.
"Sports book" is right in the headline of this story. It's what we're talking about.
That is correct. First of all, bookmakers have gotten incredibly good at setting the line. Almost all the time, the same amount of money comes down on either side. When it doesn't, they lay their bets off on a bigger book.
It all evens out, but the vigorish is forever. Ten points on every bet, win or lose. The house literally cannot be beat. And big winners just get more people interested in placing a bet.
A legal casino has a much larger margin than Fat Tony and Uncle Vito. A bigger nut to cover.
Still no. They don't make their money from wins and losses, but from the vigorish. If you want to win $100, you have to bet $110 (on a straight-up proposition). If the money gets too heavy, they lay it off on a bigger book. They're not going to lose.
I'm shocked at how many otherwise savvy Slashdotters don't really understand how bookies work.
Absolute nonsense. There is a time-honored tradition of small-time bookies laying off action on bigger bookies, going right up the chain. They don't make their money on your wins or losses, but on the "vig". They get a small slice of all the action. No reputable bookie would ever harm a winner. Violence only enters into it if you go on the arm (credit) for a bet and don't pay your losses. Even then, it's the threat more than the actual violence.
Bookies love winners, because they're great advertising. They do not like losers who cannot pay.
I got $50 that says there will be blackmarket workarounds for this.
I grew up around bookies. There was a social club around the corner from my house where you could get a bet down, and everyone from the local bartender to the local barber had a shirt pocket filled with slips of paper of action they'd taken from working guys.
It's funny when vice becomes sanitized for public consumption. It loses a little something. Sure, poor people and degenerate gamblers won't be able to help themselves from lining up at the government-sanctioned betting parlors, but the business around the margins won't be going anywhere. It'll become tax designed to redistribute wealth upward. but the ones who know will always be able to find some honest crook to take their action.
One thing vaping and edibles will never do, and that's make you not a raging asshole.
But 70% more typo typos.
Barbecue is not spelled with a "q".
You couldn't be more wrong. Playing fullback is all about leverage, velocity, angles and arcs.
But they all help if you want to be great at it.
Please tell me which sport is not "applied mathematics combined with some physics".
It did for the first season or two, but then it became just another cloying sitcom. The geeky references became more obvious and the writing became subpar. But those first couple of seasons were really good.
It's just not a word in English.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but I definitely told you so. Dude is fucked. Regardless of whether or not the SEC chooses to prosecute, they're going to be keeping a mighty close regulatory eye on him from now on.
It's a shame, too, since I was just starting to like the guy after hearing that he hangs out with Azealia Banks and drops acid on the regular.
Do you have any evidence besides that you feel that way?
You understand that the new FB algorithm works so that if your "friends" don't engage with you in any way (reply, liking your post, etc), they will start to see less of your posts, right? Maybe the problem isn't the opinions you express, but the fact that your friends don't really want to hear from you and don't really care what you have to say.
Here in the United States, the news has always been talking heads. Walter Cronkite. Edward R. Murrow. Eric Sevareid. Huntley and Brinkley.
In fact, that's where the moniker "talking heads" comes from: the nightly news.
And they're both equally fair.
We'd account for even more driving deaths if we could only find our car keys.
Yes, but only for those who pay for Slashdot Premium, and only on the mobile app.
I can give you a promotional code for a 60-day trial if you send me your info.
Only when he's been drinking.
Sounds like somebody's getting ready to come in off the bench
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
You make good points, but I believe that empathy is like a muscle. The more you use it, the longer it stays active. There are few things in life that will rejuvenate the mind and body and renew the spirit like going out and doing something for someone else.
Don't worry. We've all done it. It's all these damn browser tabs the kids have these days. Confusing as hell.
I'm not sure if you're maybe from elsewhere and unfamiliar with how governments work in the US, but Pelosi and Feinstein are representatives of California or a California district in the federal government - in Washington DC. They are not "California government". See, states each have their own government, and California's is doing great, sweetie.
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