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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Screw parity and screw the newbie. There's nothing stopping a newbie from going to the track, picking up a program, and doping out a winner just like everyone else.
This game is about finding a long term EDGE. From the player's perspective, it has always been that way and always WILL be that way.
Listing things that are clearly ILLEGAL and trying to equate them to betting activity and handicapping edges that are clearly NOT illegal is the height of ignorance.
Maybe we should go back to horse and buggies too so the Amish are on equal ground to the rest of the country? Those poor newbies...
This might be the dumbest post you've ever made, and that's saying something.
Every newbie at the track I've ever known (including me), went in there thinking that exact same thing...when we won, we thought "WOW, how long has THIS been going on."
Then we got our clocks cleaned (and wow, there WEREN'T ANY REBATES BACK THEN, OR COMPUTER ROBOTIC WAGERING, or whatever the latest complaint is).
When you get your clock cleaned as a newbie, that's the crossroads. You either leave the game, or you become an even bigger fan and set out to IMPROVE YOUR GAME, because UNLIKE THE LOTTERY, you CAN IMPROVE YOUR GAME.
Thank me very much.
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Let's be clear what Mike's "IMPROVE YOUR GAME" means in actual practice: it means "become more robotic yourself," w/r/t your betting. It cannot mean anything else, because if you're a human making bets at a large enough scale, your leaks will eventually be exploited by the data analytics companies deploy to do just that. You won't even know it.
And those programs you devise to bet for you: they'll have patterned behaviors too. Those patterns will be picked up on by the ADWs that have the data collection capacity and analytics to pick through them. If it's not happening already, soon you'll be individually targeted by the ADWs in an effort to increase your handle based on those patterns (and when those patterns change, they'll be already searching for your new ones and be better at finding them than you are about yourself). It's an arms race. Not only are you competing with other bettors armed with their own precision softwares, you're trying to outwit the ADWs that want to learn as much about you as they can.
If that's your game, more power to you.
