With your number of post's, it completly amazes me that your ignorance of his dedication and complete discipline to beating the sports betting industry is far above 99% of the members here in this forum. I have witnessed 8 straight winning month's from ice, and NEVER has he bregged or patted himself on the back about it. If anything he has gone way out of his way to help people on how to win at this game. His dedication to winning and sharing knowledge is barnone compared to other poster's on here who are mainly negative in their opinions. He treat's all of his business adventures with complete professionalism. Fezzik could have not found a better canidate for this position. You might want to start paying attention to those that not only know how to win, but more importantly, are willing to share it with you. Best of luck.
I can tell you this fez, he probally has the best poker face out there. His expression NEVER changes whether he win's a bet or loses one. It is all the same in his eye's. I believe you both will benefit from this. Just keep me in mind when you go to build your mansions. It is what I do. Good luck!
I have a lot of respect for you, Iceman. You are disciplined, you are hungry, you win, and you help others. I think your greatest trait is you are humble. You admitted that you can't cap, and your persistence led you to find a way to win anyway. That is to be admired. I think that Fezzik would have a hard time finding a better candidate.
All that being said, I think it would be a big mistake to do this. You make 6 figures at your job. If you just kept working for 10-20 more years, put $30K a year into retirement accounts, continued to grind away in sportsbetting and increasing your bet size gradually, you'd be comfortably retired in 10-20 years. And you would have a lot of fun along the way with your sportsbetting. With your drive and hunger, you could easily learn to read charts and trade stocks and options, and make a killing doing that. A high income coupled with your personality is a recipe for extreme wealth in a fairly short amount of time. Why give that up to play poker? Sure, Vegas and poker are the sexy choice, but I can tell you from experience that it's not what it's cracked up to be. You can play poker anytime you want online, Detroit, Vegas on weekends. And it will still be fun. It won't be fun if you're playing 10 hours a day in Vegas with drunk people. You'll have 3 hour stretches with nothing but 4,9 as hole cards. You'll have a lot of losing days. You'll be living in Vegas......the paradise of the world that is nothing but a facade. Living there, you will see the darkness that lies just below the surface, that tourists don't often see. Once the facade is removed, it becomes a very depressing place. The opportunity cost of moving there is too much to give up, in my humble opinion. Staying where you are is not the exciting decision to make, but it probably is the right one. I say trade stocks and bet sports, and use your wealth to take vacations to Vegas. I wish you the best in whatever you decide to do.
All that being said, I think it would be a big mistake to do this. You make 6 figures at your job. If you just kept working for 10-20 more years, put $30K a year into retirement accounts, continued to grind away in sportsbetting and increasing your bet size gradually, you'd be comfortably retired in 10-20 years. And you would have a lot of fun along the way with your sportsbetting. With your drive and hunger, you could easily learn to read charts and trade stocks and options, and make a killing doing that. A high income coupled with your personality is a recipe for extreme wealth in a fairly short amount of time. Why give that up to play poker? Sure, Vegas and poker are the sexy choice, but I can tell you from experience that it's not what it's cracked up to be. You can play poker anytime you want online, Detroit, Vegas on weekends. And it will still be fun. It won't be fun if you're playing 10 hours a day in Vegas with drunk people. You'll have 3 hour stretches with nothing but 4,9 as hole cards. You'll have a lot of losing days. You'll be living in Vegas......the paradise of the world that is nothing but a facade. Living there, you will see the darkness that lies just below the surface, that tourists don't often see. Once the facade is removed, it becomes a very depressing place. The opportunity cost of moving there is too much to give up, in my humble opinion. Staying where you are is not the exciting decision to make, but it probably is the right one. I say trade stocks and bet sports, and use your wealth to take vacations to Vegas. I wish you the best in whatever you decide to do.
A sharp post by Illini, no doubt.
As far as "disaster", this has the potential to be an opportunity cost disaster, no doubt. We need to make enough to make this worhwhile.
Winning will be easy. But we could win by putting Mr. Ice in at the local Fatburger.
I will choose my guy tomorrow night. We will keep all posted. I have several other excellent candidates. We will see what transpires.
As far as "disaster", this has the potential to be an opportunity cost disaster, no doubt. We need to make enough to make this worhwhile.
Winning will be easy. But we could win by putting Mr. Ice in at the local Fatburger.
I will choose my guy tomorrow night. We will keep all posted. I have several other excellent candidates. We will see what transpires.
Couldn't have said it better...I don't know Iceman, but from his posts he seems like he would go above and beyond in anything he does....with that said, I can't imagine this poker thing working out or being worth your while. The time and effort you put into handicapping you could turn 10x profits in the markets. Its hard to make money in the markets but find something you like, stocks, futures, comods, bonds etc. I suggest opening up an Interactive Brokers account and look at all the options they have and have fun....But good luck in whatever you do, I would be glad to hire you/be your partner.
