First, Ras doesn't bet anything on his picks. If he bets its few hundred dollars. Two, he is a tout who sells his picks. He had one decent year many ears ago but since then he has been ****. His records are padded with worthless second half bets and totals where the limit is around $500 or less even in big books like pinnacle. This guy picks before the market settles and when the limit is around $500 and still struggles to win. He is more of a marketer than handicapper. Beating college basketball and football in small conference, small market game is not that hard yet he still needs to pad them with unbettable 2nd half bets and totals. He never picks on larger markets with big limits, so putting him in the list of biggest bettors is a joke. He did a good job marketing just like that scammer vegas dave going on few low level affiliate tv of espn, nbc to get exposure and people fall for it. Don't pay for picks. There are so many free sources out there if you do you do your research. But if you must pay, stick to services like Bettingresource that picks on games once the market is established on big market games with high limits. Bettingresource's free facebook picks has much better yield than RAS's free picks over the last 2 years and these picks are on large and established markets where followers can get the posted line without a problem.

The world would be a better place if your dad had just pulled out .

HAHA! +1

What an abysmal paragraph that was

Besides 2008-2009 what other years did he win it?

The reference to Fezzik was most likely sarcasm.

He can't, he's better than everyone else and can find fault in pretty much anything. I stopped taking that clown even halfway seriously when he was trashing poker players (on 2p2 of all places lol) when nobody had even brought them up. Idk what would cause a person to be constantly full of angst and negativity like that, blows my mind kinda tbh.

I might not speak/write much, but i read...a lot. And try to learn from anywhere I can, but with him there's barely any substance. Thanks to many of you others though, there's still some good info here for anyone trying to gain small edges here and there.

That depends on wheather one considers dumpster diving for match plays winning.

poker players woat confirmed

Honestly what is with poker players. Every one of their posts looks like that. Is every single one of them 14?

And I refuse to live in a world where we accept 'tbh' in place of to be honest

Ed,

Saw you were recruiting people for a private group. Don't see it on your site. Whats up with that?

You stop just focusing on college sports to tout preseason NFL and WNBA?

Isn't Ed the guy who runs RAS? He is here? I am guessing its its MrAdvantage?

RAS would send their clients to slaughter house if they attempt NFL or any big market games. These guys struggle to beat sides in college basketball and football. They haven't really won anything since that big year almost a decade ago. Since then its all padded results with small market college basketball 2nd half bets and totals that are useless forclients, especially when they release the picks early even before the limitsare raised. By the time clients get the these small games line is off be 2 to 3 points. Even without the line move they haven't really won anything. They are good at college basketball totals and maybe 2nd half bets but in these markets even in big books like pinnacle the limits are under $1000.

I guess they will have to try something like a private group to tout other sports since most of their old clients will not be returning if they continue what they have been doing the past few years.

Hate replying to the bettingresource shill, but others have wrongly suggested that we do not win at sides, with one going as far as to say we "lose badly" at $5000 limit stuff.

CBB full game sides last year 67-61 (52.3%)
CBB full game sides last 8 years 702-579 (54.8%)

CFB full game sides last year 8-5 (61.5%)
CFB full game sides last 8 years 104-86 (54.7%)

We do much better on totals, as should be expected, but contrary to some opinions here, we've demonstrated a long term edge on sides as well. We've had losing years on sides, but have never "lost badly" on them over a reasonable sample size.

Also in response to the questioning of our motives for higher volume last year, you have to realize that our offerings on the service have changed significantly from year to year. Last year's CBB was the first time ever that we did full game sides, full game totals, 2h sides, and 2h totals from start to finish in a season. We had 450 or more plays three different years without any 2nd half plays, so getting to 529 plays with 176 second half plays last year was not unusually high volume at all.

Eight years is a really interesting timeframe. What about since Mike left?

Ed, no offense, but your basketball service cost around $10,000 last year. You going to charge $100,000 this year?

8-5 lol

but the one with a reasonable sample size is 52%

big winner there boyos

Not shilling anything. I have tried many services including yours years ago and I settled on the ones that worked for me.

Now lets analyze your record:

CBB full game sides last year 67-61 (52.3%)
CBB full game sides last 8 years 702-579 (54.8%)

52.3% that is basically break even but losing for clients who paid thousands every year. Not to mention that when i was your client, you always release the best possible line that are not widely available before the market settles. There is a reason you release the pick at 11am before the big books remove the overnight limits.

The CBB record over the last years at 54.8 is not that bad but once again clients cannot get lines on most of your picks. You pat yourself in the back claiming that you line moves but majority of the picks are on no name small conference teams that are small betting market with small limits. Any time you tried a slightly larger market you would get crushed and sometimes the line would move against you.

Finally, winning% means nothing without the odds played and the the yield. Even though you release point spread and count the spread as the standard -110, many times you have released the spread when the odd on that spread was -110 to -120 at release time. So even though the 54% win rate is not bad, it doesn't translate well in terms of Yield

Overall for those who tailed you in all the full game sides in the last 8 years, its break even at best if they managed to get all your lines. Many are down. But you still get some clients because there are bettors who pick their spots to bet your games. Once of the best way to make money on from your picks is to wait for the sheeps that follow you to move the line and if some of the line moves back to original line, then your pick is toast over 60% of those times in those situations.

But now a days its not profitable to bet with line moves because line moves back and forth all the time. Situational handicapping is the way to go now.

If you want to call yourself a real winner and want to be talked in threads such legit top sports bettors, try to beat much bigger markets in multiple sports consistently.

Your attempt to get suckers for NFL pre-season (another small market)is a joke. This way you can claim you moved the lines and release bad lines to pad your stats.

ugggghhh - will you shut up already dude

advice for a lurker?

any thoughts on skybluepicks?

No I won't because he called me a shill because I mentioned a service that worked for me. I tried Ras few years back and it was unbettable. The CBB totals that he releases had $550 limits at the release time and the line moves 3 to 5 points because all the sheep that paid thousands for the service will have to max bet.

RAS had one or two solid years way back in the days but since then some of their team members split and the plays are break even at best and -ev with the bad lines.

He says I am shilling bettingresource because i gave them a shout out, but it was well deserved. The free picks they posted over the last two years have higher yield than RAS paid picks during the that costs thousands. And these free picks are on major markets with high limits. Now RAS will probably say that their free picks are only hitting around 51% but he won't say that they play mostly value underdog money lines. 15% yield hitting 51% of the plays is better than hitting 60% with standard pointspread and total lines.

No, I call you a shill because you make these similar nonsensical posts about RAS every year at multiple forums and always mention bettingresource.

We've hit 55% in CBB, and 56% in CFB over the last 5 years alone, most would consider that to be "solid" and a lot better than break even.

"Unbettable" to you, doesn't mean the same for everyone else.

Just because you had a $500 limit at one book, doesn't mean others can't get down nickels, dimes, or more, at multiple books.

Go ahead and shill for bettingresource, but please keep the misleading/false RAS stuff out of it.

Are you going to address your new focus on preseason NFL/WNBA and the creation of a private 50 person group that is not on your website?

Super transparent IMO.

I am not shilling for anyone. Just stating facts.

Why won't you admit that 55% and 56% are padded percent with meaning less 2nd half bets and totals? Clients pay you thousands to get a proper side or total but you are shilling your overall padded record with meaningless bets that were useless to clients. But clients have caught on and you lost many. That is why you are starting this mysterious private group for wnba/nfl. Its just another marketing tactic to create a hype with misleading records that noone can verify so that you can sell it the following season for thousands again. Why don't you address Mikels's question?

Please stop