Is there value here?

Is there value here? I'm curious to know if others feel the $25 per month here is worth what you get?

depends what you came here to get. i see the value. 25 is not much in the grand scheme of things (for me), but to each his own.

I paid $16.67 a month, that was the AP move. It's worth it.

Great Value!

I agree with ed.. To quote King ”the bettor looks for data that can be used to make money or avoid losing money, and does not necessarily demand a high level of statistical significance”. I find this site to be a “buy” at this time. But… past performance does not guarantee future results! HAPPY NEW YEAR GL to all in 2010

Plenty of value The opportunity to see what Fezzik is playing, win or lose, has great value if you take the time to try to figure out why he's making the play and apply it in the future. Old School reminded me that I need to be feeding local books players who will lose to make sure I have continued access. Throwaway comment by him that had value to me. There are about a dozen people here capable of making a throwaway comment that can be worth a ton of money over time. I rarely visit, and have never participated, on message boards because of the clown factor. The clown factor here, though rising, is relatively low. I think there's value here.

Tons of value in the $199 for the year.

I joined a couple of weeks ago in preparation for spending the last week of the year in Las Vegas. I wanted to make some large sports bets prior to year end. I would have bet $70k (at 7 to 1) against Phil Ivey in November if I could have figured out how/where to make that bet. I hoped this forum might help with such questions. Prior to this last week, I bet three times against Oscar de la Hoya (Mosely, Mayweather, Pacquaio) and I bet a few NFL games that friends recommended. Although my lifetime sports bets numbered less than 10, I won every one of these bets. I thought if I joined this forum, read the posts, and bet on the consensus, then I should at least break even. Anything more could be attributed to the value of the forum. The seven football bets I chose to make were recommendations from the forum. I generally did not accept worse lines than the recommendations stated. However, I did pick up the Texas A&M/Georgia OVER at 65.5 when some books had it at 67. The recommended OVER 64 would have been a push. Here are my bet results: 12/27 Kentucky +7 over Clemson at -110 LOST 12/27 Raiders +3 over Browns at even LOST 12/27 Broncos +7 over Eagles at -125 WON 12/27 Redskins +7 over Cowboys at -105 and -110 LOST 12/28 Texas A&M/Georgia OVER 65.5 LOST 12/30 Nebraska/Arizona OVER 39.5 LOST 12/31 Stanford/Oklahoma UNDER 56 LOST My needs from this forum include not only what bet to make, but which book I should go to that will take my action. I found myself driving all over town trying to find the best lines. Oddly, at South Coast, when they offered to take only $2000 on the “Stanford/Oklahoma UNDER 56”, I walked away without making any bet. When I returned a minute later, they had lowered it to 55.5. I should have then asked for $10,000 on “Stanford/Oklahoma OVER 55.5”. This is similar to what BlackJack players call the Reno Shuffle --- where the player wants a bad deck shuffled so he makes a larger than allowed increase in his bet size. I hate to start an argument or offend the regulars with my first post, but my limited time on this forum indicates the recommendations may be of value as a contrary indicator.

If you can make a determination of value based on 7 bets you are smarter than me

Is there value here? For me, yes there is. As long as I am NOT the best NFL handicapper here and others can throw me tid-bits here and there I have no choice but to stay here. I must be the top handicapper before I have no value here. There are several guys here that know far more than me. IMSM