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Monday, April 17, 2006

Stallion continued...

I signed up with Pro Sports Handicapping aka John Misener aka the "Stallion" several months ago purely for his college basketball picks, based on his track record according to bigguy.com. At that time, Stallion had a sterling record. However, from the time I signed up going forward, his picks were consistent losers.

My luck.

Like any scam-dicapper, The Stallion continued on and offered more picks that I foolishly accepted to cost me money.

Nevertheless, Stallion has given me a lot of laughs.

Here's his latest note below:

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Baseball:
5 Units on Houston Astros -110 (D. Bush, T. Buchholz)

5 Units on San Diego Padres +111 (C. Young, J. Francis)

5 Units on Seattle Mariners +135 (G. Meche, L. Dinardo)


OK NEW WEEK, I EXPECT THIS TO BE A GOOD WEEK FOR US AS BASEBALL IS DOWN ABOUT (-35 UNITS) SO FAR, REMEMBER THE KEY IS TO BE AHEAD AFTER EACH MONTH...GL TODAY
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I'm unsure how much 35 units is to the Stallion, but let's use $5 (the minimum bet on most sites) as the unit figure. So, he's down $175 since the start of the baseball season? That's amazing - how can you lose that many games in so short a time period? A monkey can do better.

He's likely taking heavy favorites on moneylines or decided underdogs, rarely hitting the dogs, and sometimes hitting the faves for minor wins.

I'm going to test a hypothesis this week - a random person with no knowledge of sports can post at least an even performance.

I'll use my co-worker Kerry who has absolutely no knowledge of sports.

Updates to follow.


   - farfel

comments on "Stallion continued..."

 

Blogger KOB said ... (5:14 PM):  

I would be happy to share my lack of sports knowledge with you. It would be my pleasure...

 

Blogger KOB said ... (5:15 PM):  

what'a a unit?

 

Blogger nutlow said ... (4:19 PM):  

Well a unit is a standard measurement for a bet. So if your have a unit as 5 dollars then putting 3 units on something would be 15 dollars... whereas high-rollers might have a unit be several hundred dollars each... it makes it easier to say how much you like a certain game while still appealing to all different levels of bettors.

 

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