[rams4life]

I found this site from a link (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1145) in a sports betting forum. This link has lots of info on game fixing from couple of decades ago. Has anyone read this book? Is that conspiracy theory or for real?

I am concerned because I am have been betting on sports for over 2 years and I am doing really well. I don't really do any research for my bets. I simply pay for a handicapper and I follow their picks just like I take advice for my 401k from my mutual funds manager at my bank. I have to admit that sports betting has been much more successful for me than any other investment.

I have no idea how these games are handicapped or what kind of information they use to make the picks. I simply check my email and make the bets that I am advised to make. I pay this capper his fees on a monthly basis. The picks are however, not just in NFL. Its on all major american sports (nhl, nba, nfl, mlb) and also college basketball and college football. My question is, would i get in trouble if i happen to have a bet on a fixed game without even knowing its fixed....or if my capper is using information from these fixed. I bet only $5000 per game but make a good profit each month betting 20 to 35 games a month. He wins only about 6 out 10 bets but the odds are sometimes better than the standard point spread odds. I wouldn't say its fixed game information based on the low win % but if 2 or 3 games a month that i bet o are fixed, would i get i trouble? Let me know if there are any experienced guys in this field on this forum.

The last 2 years, i had no idea about all this while i was betting because I was never into sports betting until my banker friend recommended me to a tipper. I called him earlier he said that the games that we are betting cannot be fixed because if its fixed, it would be hitting much better than 6 out of 10 but what if few of those games are fixed.

[Elvis]

Hey man, welcome aboard. And yeah, we just had that thread about it, the author even chimed in.

Which handicapping forum?

[rams4life]

Hey Elvis,
I found the link in a thread in covers forum. Its full of degenerate gamblers who cry fix each every time they lose a close game. Half the people say games are fixed and the other half defend the league saying that players make millions and because of that they have no need to throw away games. Its mostly childish arguments and one of the poster posted a link to the thread in this forum. Only after I read the things in the thread here, i became little concerned about my bets even though my 5k bets are pocket change compared to those mafia and big time bettors.

But i just want to make sure that i don't get screwed over for betting on questionable games without even any knowledge!

I buy/use the picks from Bettingresource. Started with their regular picks and after few months I switched to the 10 unit wise-guy picks. Been using them for about 2 years successfully. They call their 10 unit picks wise-guy picks and it makes me wonder since wise-guy is a term that is associated with mafias according to mafia movies that i watched in the past!

[Stranger]

I found this site from a link (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1145) in a sports betting forum. This link has lots of info on game fixing from couple of decades ago. Has anyone read this book? Is that conspiracy theory or for real?

I am concerned because I am have been betting on sports for over 2 years and I am doing really well. I don't really do any research for my bets. I simply pay for a handicapper and I follow their picks just like I take advice for my 401k from my mutual funds manager at my bank. I have to admit that sports betting has been much more successful for me than any other investment.

I have no idea how these games are handicapped or what kind of information they use to make the picks. I simply check my email and make the bets that I am advised to make. I pay this capper his fees on a monthly basis. The picks are however, not just in NFL. Its on all major american sports (nhl, nba, nfl, mlb) and also college basketball and college football. My question is, would i get in trouble if i happen to have a bet on a fixed game without even knowing its fixed....or if my capper is using information from these fixed. I bet only $5000 per game but make a good profit each month betting 20 to 35 games a month. He wins only about 6 out 10 bets but the odds are sometimes better than the standard point spread odds. I wouldn't say its fixed game information based on the low win % but if 2 or 3 games a month that i bet o are fixed, would i get i trouble? Let me know if there are any experienced guys in this field on this forum.

The last 2 years, i had no idea about all this while i was betting because I was never into sports betting until my banker friend recommended me to a tipper. I called him earlier he said that the games that we are betting cannot be fixed because if its fixed, it would be hitting much better than 6 out of 10 but what if few of those games are fixed.

I read the book when it came out, 25yrs ago. Yeah, it's real. Now, who knows what's changed in 25yrs and what's going on today.

[bubbaramfan]

Welcome to RFU rams4life. Any time there are large amounts of money changing hands, you can be sure criminal elements will weasel their way into the mix. Las Vegas was founded by the Chicago Mafia. Very nieve to think they are no longer involved. Sports betting is not clean either. Call a bookie 10 times and five times he will give you Cowboys, and five times he gives you Redskins. He makes his money of the 10% he gets from booking your bet.
Fanduel and Draft King use computer logarythms and parlay thousands of configurations against your ten or twenty. They've spent 100's of millions of $$$ on TV and radio ads. Where do you think they got all that money? From losers.

[rams4life]

But what about my question. If I bet on a fixed game unknowingly, would i get in trouble if the game fixers get caught? I am sure thousands of people bet on each game but I am guessing they will target only the bigger bettors. At what point is considered a big bet. Is $5k considered a big bet to be punished for betting on a supposedly fixed side without even knowing about it?

[Stranger]

But what about my question. If I bet on a fixed game unknowingly, would i get in trouble if the game fixers get caught? I am sure thousands of people bet on each game but I am guessing they will target only the bigger bettors. At what point is considered a big bet. Is $5k considered a big bet to be punished for betting on a supposedly fixed side without even knowing about it?

I don't think the gov't is going to go after guys like you who bet. And after all these years, I don't think they'll even go after the guys that run the betting operations.

I'm certainly not a sports gambler, but I doubt you have anything to be concerned about.

[rams4life]

Good to know.
Until i saw the thread here and watched those videos, i didnt even know fbi had operations monitoring everything but amazing how no one was caught.

I don't like to call myself a sports gambler though. I would so i am more of an investor but i guess its in the eye of the beholder.

I wonder how many games are fixed these days.

[Elvis]

Maybe i'm naive but Vegas makes a ton of money on sports gambling, can't imagine they want the whole thing coming down because of some kind of fixing scandal. Seems like it's in Vegas' interest to keep the games on the up and up...