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Originally Posted by rickroll
How about detailing the start of the journey.
Did you have a friend who showed you the ropes? Was it through 2p2? We're you just degenning and through serendipity found out the system you were using worked?
Also, regarding the stale lines. Do you think the shift to efficiency (or opening vs closing lines) is more to changing circumstances or sharps improving them by taking a position?
Was also very surprised you never got into DFS given the strong correlation between player props and it. I deeply regret not getting into it back 2012 because the a lot of the people who made millions then can't even profit today and it eats me up inside I missed out on that era.
I was never a degen at all. Im actually more risk averse than people would think. I got my start first through poker. Poker was my first love and that got me into the world of advantage gambling. I loved the strategy behind poker though, not that it was gambling. Like ive never bought a scratch or lotto ticket in my life. Gambling doesnt do anything for me but anything with strategy I love but there always has to be something on the line for me. Even 5 bucks on a golf hole will change everything about how I approach it.
ive told this on here already but I ran a really good poker game out of my apartment in college for years. Through that game I met a kid who would become my first long term partner with betting. He was a PPH bookie and it seemed right up my alley so I became a bookie. I used phones at first and that was fine. I eventually teamed up with my friend and put them all on his PPH site with his guys. We ran the book for a while together; he did most of the collections and I would monitor and move lines. At the same time I was working full time and had a few hours down time each day during work and Id read this forum. I learned all about efficient markets and it got me thinking about everything differently. I started thinking of the players pending bets as my bets. So if someone bet pats -7 -110, Id think of myself as having jets +7 +110. That slight change of thinking, for whatever reason, was the first light bulb for me. I thought I could get some of these good looking bets myself and make more money. So that got me started betting on my own.
I learned everything from this forum though. This is where everything started. Here I learned about other forums and books that helped a ton. I pored over old wells, I read everything that sharp posters had ever said. I wrote things down on my phone. It just consumed me when I was starting out. And being in the bookie pph world already, I had access to these unreal accounts starting out so I did really good at the beginning which obviously helped a lot