A friend who knows I like to bet sports and play poker sent me this link he stumbled upon: http://mikkorusso.blogspot.com/

about some russian kid who's like a prodigy games player and starts off playing dominoes for money when he was 14 in a Miami domino park during the late '90s.

don't know if it's a real story or fiction because each blog entry is headed by "chapter x"

here's one paragraph that made an impression on me:

"Now the question was of strategy: Can betting on something as seemingly random as cockfights have positive expected value? The answer is yes. In my experience, anytime you can bet without a vig or a rake and against people who are drunk, you can get into +EV situations. After a few hours at the fights, I noticed that many guajiros used very long spurs for their birds. These made the fights high variance, and roosters that looked all but dead actually had decent chances, because with long spurs even a single stab could suddenly kill. But gamblers who were stuck and steaming would lay as much as 3 or 4 to 1 odds on roosters that were winning in long-spur fights. I felt intuitively that the losing rooster would come back to win a little more often than one out of every four fights, which is all I needed for the bet to be profitable over the long run. So on my first wager I got laid $80 to my $20, and I won and had suddenly tripled the $40 Vicente gave me. This is the mathy concept of odds, which Papo taught me. I was on a heater from the first bet, and when the cockfights closed I was up $260. When Moro and Vicente saw I was winning it reinforced my omen-ish image, and they began to bet huge on my picks, so when we went home they each gave me $200 and now I suddenly had an $800 bankroll."

you think it's a real story? either way, it's different from the the way most of us became degens through the internet. God, remember the 90s??

Cockfight gambling is always +EV

If your cock wins, you win $, if your cock loses, you have dinner.

lmaoo

I bet on a cock fight in Thailand and when my cock was winning the dude cancelled the bet. Didn't really think it was worth arguing my case when 1, there was a big language barrier and 2, the place was pretty much run by the local mafia.

It took me a solid ten seconds to realize this wasn't a dick joke.

cool blog - will read

It's actually pretty well written and enjoyable. Bookmarked!

Was your cock really beating his cock badly?
Did you beat any other cock in Thailand?
Did any of the gogo girls you frequented have a cock?

There's no vig or rake? I didn't realize cockfight organizers were so charitable. What a classy profession.

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Smart bet.

remember, always bet on black

lol

I dunno. It's well written but just doesn't really grab me. Would much rather read Mooremoney blog or Warmdecks stories.

lmao, some parts are funny. Here he's talking about teenage sexual frustration

"She was sharp and could tell I'd probably never slept with anyone, and in her compassion she took the trouble to relieve me of my virginity, which was becoming a massive burden back then. At that age I was so sexually frustrated that from a gambling perspective I thought that if a girl approached me and told me she had AIDS but would still have sex with me if I wanted, I would totally see that as a winning proposition and just **** and die."

How big was his Cock ??

lol wp sir

New chapter up.... quite interesting blog / story

I read it earlier. "Tits Bingham" WTF lmao