An Interesting Article About Touts(mainly Pregame.com)

An Interesting Article About Touts(mainly Pregame.com) [URL="http://deadspin.com/how-america-s-favorite-sports-betting-expert-turned-a-s-1782438574"]http://deadspin.com/how-america-s-favorite-sports-betting-expert-turned-a-s-1782438574[/URL] Above is the link to an article about touts. The article focuses heavily on RJ Bell and Pregame and is quite long. However, I found it to be very good. LVA Sports is mentioned and Computer Bob is quoted.

Thanks for the link. I read it from start to finish. Always "Knew" there was "BS" in the Tout Business etc.,just the names change over time. There were 2 "Major" points that stuck out for me personally as I digest it & try to figure out some things going forward: >>>“The biggest handicappers with the most clients are often just the ones with the best marketing,” wrote Fezzik in 2006. For poker magazine All In, he looked at more than 200 public handicappers and found that not one had a lifetime win rate of 55 percent. The data showed that only about five percent of these touts could achieve a lifetime win rate of 52.4 percent, the break-even point. The bettor whose livelihood is dependent on having an edge can only be so helpful. If enough people get a whiff, the value is gone. It is counterintuitive that anyone good enough at betting sports to make money on it would ever publicize his picks, no matter the price.

I liked that the article named names and called people out. The non answers these swindlers gave speak for themselves. I have to admit that I currently pay for picks from one site(former poster on here, RickJ). Actually, I don't pay so much for the picks as the education the guy gives about sports betting in general. It's the type of education I had hoped to receive from this site. A little disappointed in that fact, but still feel a site like this important. Plus, if sports betting does get legalized in most states as the article suggests, a site like this will be greatly needed to sort through all the nonsense. I hope LVA Sports kicks it up a notch or twelve to become what it can be. I know most sports bettors are just looking for picks, but some of us genuinely want to learn to become better sports bettors.

Since we are similar in the sense of >>some of us genuinely want to learn to become better sports bettors. >> How many books does the average person read in a year? There's overlap between the groups -- 28 percent of respondents did not read a book at all in the past year, while 25 percent read between one and five books, 15 percent read between six and ten books, 20 percent read between 11 and 50, and eight percent read more than 50.

I rarely, if ever before this, post articles I have read about sports betting. This article struck many nerves with me and for whatever reason, I felt compelled to share it here. It is definitely the exception, not the rule. Certainly when I began this journey in earnest over a year ago, I immersed myself in everything that was out there. Reading everything I could from anywhere I could. The problem I ran into was the amount of garbage I had to wade through(and still do!) to get to stuff that was actually helpful and useful. It was a very frustrating process. It was unnecessarily long in my opinion as there are people out there who will tell it to you straight. I was hoping this site would be a good, trusted source that I could springboard off of in the right direction. And in some regards LVA Sports has been that source and I am thankful for it(believe me!). The SDQL link was extremely helpful(still is), but like most of the links here, it doesn't work. That, along with message boards that are long dormant, this one notwithstanding, makes me question the future of the site. Plus, people coming to the site for the first time, will not get a good impression with broken links and dormant boards. And so growing the user base of the site seems unlikely. I can see where it would be very difficult to make money on a site offering what I am talking about. It could not be done out of a drive for profit, but it would have to be done out of a drive to truly want to help those willing to learn to become professional sports bettors. Perhaps that is why the site still exists! I am grateful for the answers I have received on the questions I ask. I refer to the answers given by Frank B. often, usually rereading them at least once a month. Of course, there is little to no money in my doing so. Hence, the dilemma of having a site as I talk about. I may have digressed off the focus of the article, but the article's unwritten point is that there is a need for good sports betting information. It pointed out a lot of the misinformation that is out there. I wish they would follow up with an equal article pointing out the good information out there presented by good, trust-worthy people; few as they may be.

As noted by lasvegasadvisor.com, there is a response from the lawyers of Pregame and RJ Bell with regard to the article discussed in this thread. I have no other comments to make(who needs to get in the middle of that fight?!), but felt it fair to include the response here as well: [URL="https://www.scribd.com/doc/316876906/Pregame-com-Legal-Demand-Letter-to-Deadspin"]https://www.scribd.com/doc/316876906/Pregame-com-Legal-Demand-Letter-to-Deadspin[/URL]