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11 hours ago, GreenDoberman said:

I am going to get high as fuck and hope that Monkey Funker and Milk Shake Steve get in a posting war.  

Then I am going to take off my pants and lie in bed and contemplate the tulips in Keukenhof.

Gonna be a wild ride until the inevitable apologies in two of three days.

Gentlemen start your posting!

 

So did both guys acquiesce, shake hands and go to bed for the night or did Postapalooza happen after the weed put me to bed?

You boys don't disappoint!  Posting boners commence!

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3 hours ago, drnkyourmlkshk1 said:

And you called me weak. 

I'll respond next week I'm logged onto sbr archives trying to figure out the math I need to beat 9 point moves. Really impossible to consider until now.

Yup.  Everything moved 9 points.  And you would have known exactly how to beat the markets because all of the books got slaughtered day in and day out.  It was that easy.  None of our predictive models and the volume betting generated from them increased efficiency.  The people who really made money were the guys watching games all day long and when they talked to a bunch of other guys watching games all day, it made them even sharper.  They could pick off inefficient numbers and suck all the value out well before Billy Walters ever got a nickel down.  Statistical models had no chance.  Runners in every Vegas casino were directed to start watching games while they sat there twiddling their thumbs after they got beat to the window time and time again by the game watchers.  Pretty soon, the runners were the ones deciding which sides and totals to bet for the syndicate.  They knew the value of a half point by reading the notes they jotted down from games three weeks ago.  They didn't even need a calculator.  They certainly didn't need a database to know that there was a correlation between big spreads and totals.  They knew exactly what ratio they needed by getting their tarot cards read.  They could tell you precisely how much the wind blowing out at Wrigley should be factored into the total by direction and MPH.  Everyone sitting in the book all day watching games was making seven figures.  People started to notice.  CEO's of Fortune 500 companies were quitting left and right to sit in the books, watch games all day, and converse with the other sharps.  "Did you see that catch"?  "That guy is gonna be good."  "He sucks."  "That coach is an idiot."  All kinds of great information to really hone their handicapping skills was tossed around.  Pretty soon even the bums caught wind of it.  In no time flat, they were killing the markets.  They could pick off a full game 2% edge in a major sport with their eyes closed.  The books were getting absolutely crushed.  The predictive modelers had no chance.  They shut down all of their fancy equipment, packed it up, and turned out the lights.  Some of them vowed never to watch another game in their life.  The books didn't know what to do.  Eventually, they started watching the game watchers to study them and desperately try to figure out how they were getting beaten so badly.  Then one day in late 2014, a ticket writer, by the name of Jerry Finkelstein, dropped his pen and it forever changed the industry.  As he bent down to pick it up, he turned his body to face the wall behind him and a light bulb as bright as the sun lit up in his head.  "Oh my God!", he exclaimed.  "Look!  That's how they've been beating us this whole time!"  He pointed to the wall of TV's he was now facing that were normally positioned behind his back.  The industry was changed forever from that day forward.  It marked the end of an era.  Probabilistic modeling was dead.  The linesmakers at the sportsbooks all started watching games too.  The everlasting days of 9 point moves in full game major markets was over.  The markets were never more efficient.  The glory days were gone.

Eventually those valuable skills were passed on to even sharper incarnations of the game watchers like "drink your milkshake brings all the boys to the yard".  And the rest of us will only be able to look on in awe.

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