NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread - Page 721

Originally Posted by idfnl 

Your betting $500 on a sports game?

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD 

I was happy the lakers were -10.5 favorites against Houston and thought it was an excellent value bet for houston... then horrified when I learned that Harden wasn't playing.

it barely worked out but it was sketchy as hell. I ended up just sleeping and not checking the score figuring it was a lost cause.

sometimes I still think there's game fixing going on in the NBA... I put in a bet for the Suns at +9 when they played the lakers two days ago. The lakers were still only up 6 in the with something like 22 seconds and the suns didn't foul or anything.... just let the clock run out and gave up. I was naturally happy, because the Suns covered only losing by 6, but it was weird to have a team just give up in a two possession game with 22 seconds left on the clock.

Originally Posted by MarkI 

Yeah, there are times when I definitely feel like the games are rigged. I dunno...

I feel you though, there are many times when I decide to just go to sleep and check it in the morning.

What site do you use, or do you deal with someone local?

Originally Posted by MarkI 

No better or worse than the stock market in my opinion.

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD 

I have someone local, but now I just go through sportsbook.ag now. For bigger bets (anything over $1000) I'll go with the local guy. But with sportsbook I can just do micro bets to make things more interesting (like putting down $50 on the NBA all star game) when I normally wouldn't give a shit about the outcome.

Originally Posted by idfnl 

Wow, interesting opinion.

I have this old fried that is obsessed with sports betting. Actually his is brother too. Both have good jobs, he's in IT, brother is a dentist. They're always low on money if not penniless.

He had all these systems and would read sports betting experts, etc. Even took a job in Vegas so he could be close to the action. He went from the 2 sports he loves (basketball and football) to betting shit he knows nothing about like baseball and you name it. He's been living paycheck to paycheck all his life because of this.

I happen to know a lot of people that have done well in the stock market. Can't say I know anyone who has done the same thru sports betting.

Originally Posted by Gibonius 

It's a good article, read it earlier today. It's really interesting (to me) how the attributes that made him the best at basketball are making it difficult to live a life outside basketball.

Originally Posted by MarkI 

I have a local guy, and an account on 5dimes.

Interesting though, why do you put the bigger bets through the local guy? Easier to get paid out? I tend to put my bigger bets through the site.

Originally Posted by idfnl 

I knew there were always tensions between him and Krause, but why does he hate him so much? I don't know the back story there.

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD 

yup the juice is a little higher with the local guy, but I get a payout within the week.

Sportsbook.ag has a $1k limit per month and only one free payout per month. sportsbook.ag has all the fun prop bets (like the superbowl bets with coin toss and national anthem singing duration over under). Especially for individual player prop bets (things like over/under on how many rebounds is dwight howard going to get per game). My average time for withdrawal checks takes at least 3 weeks in the mail.

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD 

the organization was always slaves to the luxury tax, and krause basically thought that he was the one responsible for the championships (through good front office decision making). Its the reason they broke up the team, Krause didn't want to pay Jordan another $24million/year and pippen too (pippen was the worst off - he was getting like 4million a year even during the championship runs).

Originally Posted by HRoi 

Krause also had the biggest man crush on Kukoc, and moved heaven and earth to get him on the Bulls...so much that Mike and Scottie felt Krause wanted him over them.

Watch how they blitzed Kukoc when they faced Croatia in the Olympics - they were making a point. Poor Toni had no idea what hit him