Ive been offered a couple of times... and said NO.
No point in it. Im not going to steal from players who are on the same side as me. And yes I do get paid for my picks.... when I cash in my tickets at the window, and hopefully come December in the LVH Supercontest.
If a touts plays are so good, they could make $$$ of them by betting them themselves, there is no point in selling them. Why waste all that time and effort with overhead, marketing, self-promotion, bills, etc... when you can do what you do, place a bet and be done with it. Put all that money they spend on websites, employees, advertising, marketing, overhead, etc, and BET IT. You know why they don't?? Cause the plays aren't that great, and when the play loses THEY STILL WIN... and when it LOSES the players lost the $$ for the bet AND the $$ they paid for the plays.
Touts just take advantage of sports bettors as their own fallback when a play loses, or like I would say about 1/2 of touts, don't even BET on games..... its 100% profit win or lose on the plays.
Im not the type to take advantage of people and have them pay me for something I can easily put out for free. If I was to go tout.... I would be the type to offer money back guarantees, and bet reimbursement if a play lost lol... I would be broke, but I would be the best tout ever!!
Why do you recite this same garbage over and over when I've already fully explained it to you? Now I'm actually starting to think you'd be afraid to take on a job like this, which isn't actually meant as an insult. You're concerned that the
pressure of trying to make other people money, which might affect your picking ability (And that's a reasonable, legitimate concern. I had the same feelings when I entered the business, and it absolutely did affect me at first), will decrease your talents - and again, that's not meant as an insult because I felt the same exact way at first. Do not take that the wrong way because it's not intended as such. And I certainly wouldn't blame because you ARE very good at this, at least from what I've seen of your football work. And any additional pressure might alter that a bit, so it's perfectly fine to have those concerns (If that is the case). Anyway, let me take you through the rundown AGAIN:
-No point in selling them? Why exactly? What about for someone like me who is a recent college graduate, and therefore has a very limited bankroll? If I have a gift, which I clearly do with baseball over/unders (Which you certainly cannot deny after our little Rubber Room adventures, which I clearly WON, by the way), why not give people the opportunity to invest in that? Please give me a valid reason why this is "unacceptable." As I've already explained to you, there is a significant portion of the sports gambling population - old people with a ton of money, to be specific - that look for proven, consistent people like me to invest in. What exactly is wrong with that? Nothing if they're making money, am I correct? And as you saw, based on my first-place finish and dominant season this year, all those people that invested in me made a lot of money.
-Marketing? Bills? Promotion? Advertising?... Huh? How exactly does that apply to me? THE COMPANY I WORK FOR TAKES CARE OF ALL OF THAT. You know, the nationally-renowned company that everyone already knows about that. I work for THEM; the other issues you mentioned having nothing to do with me and don't relate to me at all whatsoever. With other "touts?" Then yes, that's actually a very brilliant point and I couldn't agree more. If anything, I do agree with you because it would seem like those said people spend just as much time doing all of that then actual handicapping, and that's obviously a tactic I would 100-percent disagree with. But to me? All of that stuff is irrelevant because where I work, there are people above me who take care of ALLLLLLLLLL of that for me, and promote me, and build me up, so I don't have to worry about any of that stuff.
-I can't speak for anybody else in this industry, but you know I bet everything I put out there (And thankfully I do to take advantage of that elite 55% I registered this season). And I'm glad you at least acknowledged when saying "about 1/2 touts." If anything, I agree with you in that regard. To me, that is absolutely gutless if a handicapper out there posts plays, and then doesn't even bet those plays themselves. That's disgusting, in my opinion. Completely inexcusable and it should reveal what a fraud that handicapper is, if they don't even take their own plays! So I agree with you on that absolutely.
-Again, you refer to the "type to take advantage of people." How am I taking advantage of someone if I'm making them money? Do MOST of these scumbags take advantage of people? Unfortunately, yes. But as we ALREADY WENT THROUGH FOR MONTHS, aka the main issue we discussed at hand, you can't stick everyone into the same stereotype. I've already said I agree with you a hundred times about that - most "touts" are scum. But there are honest ones, such as myself, who work as hard as anyone out there - if not harder - putting in countless and tireless hours of effort literally every single day and night, while digging up analysis, reading player quotes, writing 500-word write-ups for most games, etc. and I know you can appreciate that because you and I are of the same breed, in that regard. So again, don't you dare lump me into that category when I AGREE with you about most of those people being scumbags who don't care if they're taking advantage of other people. You obviously know I'm one of the few exceptions, just as there are to EVERY stereotype in the world.
Honestly, man, I wish you the BOL with the rest of your season - not that you even need it from me, as you're having another good season thus far. But you just need to drop this issue already when I've already proven to you that I'm not like the rest of them. To think otherwise is greatly insulting to all the work I have done, and you would feel the exact same way if anyone ever took a shot at your own countless and tireless hours of work that you put into this every week (And remember, for me, it was
every day during baseball. Didn't take one single day off for the third year in a row).
). You'd be very proud how far I've come. But yeah, it is definitely great to see you back on here. BOL with your action the rest of the way!
