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interesting topic here. my only time that i was ever able to beat sports gambling was in the early 1970's. i was getting the hockey lineups before they came on the wires @ 7:00 eastern time. there were goaltender's that you could call A-players and then there were B-players. so i was betting based on who the goaltender was. i was betting split line hockey which meant if you take the underdog you got 1 1/2 goals, if you took the favorite it meant you gave 2 goals. if the game fell 2, the favorite players pushed and had no action, the underdog players just lost their money. that type of a line had about a 40% vig built into it. but a line with the wrong goaltender might have converted over to a lay 1 1/2 goals for the favorite or take 1 goal with the underdog.
so off to vegas i went, and i went right to this sports book called Little Caesar's. the owner of the place was a guy by the name of EUGENE MAYDAY.---------- he sat in the sports book all day booking the highest limits in the desert. he also happened to own over 2000 taxi cabs that ran around Los Angeles all day.
so i started betting the man the hockey games. for about 2 weeks i was betting his limit on the games $5,000. i thought to myself it wouldn't be to long before i went into the taxi business in Los Angeles. then the guy cut me back in half which was still bigger than anywhere else in town. by that time everyone all over Vegas was betting the hockey games that i had played at Little Caesar's. in 3 days $2500 a game became $200 and i had to quit betting at Little Caesars and moved over to the Churchill Downs where they took $1000 from me. after a week they stopped taking hockey all over Nevada for the year. i took up some baseball doing the same thing with 2nd basemen, shortstops, centerfielder's and catchers. i won but it was a big grind. by the end of the summer they figured out how i came up with the games and the guy i was doing business with at Western Union lost his job and i was out of business completely.
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