Derby Trail Forums

Derby Trail Forums (http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/index.php)
-   The Paddock (http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2)
-   -   Make A Living Betting Horses? (http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14793)

Riot 07-05-2007 03:56 PM

Groupie :D

I love golf. I watch golf every chance I get, read all the golf magazines I can, and made a point of visiting St Andrews when I could. I have never played! Once I hit a bucket of balls ... It's weird :D

GPK 07-05-2007 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riot
Groupie :D

I love golf. I watch golf every chance I get, read all the golf magazines I can, and made a point of visiting St Andrews when I could. I have never played! Once I hit a bucket of balls ... It's weird :D


1/2 million of disposable income...I would drop everything and give it 5-6 years and see if I could make it to the tour...at least to say that I gave it a shot.

Riot 07-05-2007 04:01 PM

Wish for you that you could ... everyone should get the chance to try for their dream.

GPK 07-05-2007 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riot
Wish for you that you could ... everyone should get the chance to try for their dream.


If I ever make it...you could be my first, and most likely only, groupie:cool: :cool:

golfer 07-05-2007 04:04 PM

Senior tour???? You'll have more time to prepare.

GPK 07-05-2007 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by golfer
Senior tour???? You'll have more time to prepare.


15 1/2 years....I better get started now:o

and hope that Tiger still aint playing

Riot 07-05-2007 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK
If I ever make it...you could be my first, and most likely only, groupie:cool: :cool:

I'd do that for you - I'd recruit some young, cute things for you, too! :p

Danzig 07-05-2007 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK
If I ever make it...you could be my first, and most likely only, groupie:cool: :cool:


well!


lol

ouch there by the way about the senior tour.

if we all got to do what we dreamed of, i'd be a mounted policeman jockey pro tennis player....not necessarily in that order.

GPK 07-05-2007 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riot
I'd do that for you - I'd recruit some young, cute things for you, too! :p


Im not into young chicks:D

SlewsMyHero 07-05-2007 04:10 PM

In my 25+ years playing, I have only known 2 professionals that made money consistently. I use the term professional, since this was their only source of income. Many "professionals" have other sources of income, these 2 didn't. They had very different styles of play. One was a straight better. $1000 win, $2000 place on short price favorites. I don't know how he did it, but he had a sixth sense for when the chalk would get beat. He would go to the window and come back and say, "I changed my mind and didn't bet" and the 3/5 shot would run 3rd. Sometimes he would bet as much as $2500 win, $5000 place. He always doubled up on the place. If he got beat and got a $3.00 place price, he broke even. He would go several days without making a bet sometimes. He was very patient, but he won.

The other guy was well connected. He was formally in the harness racing business, and knew trainers, jockeys and owners from all over the country. He bet strictly on information. He made some huge scores.

GPK 07-05-2007 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danzig
well!


lol

ouch there by the way about the senior tour.

if we all got to do what we dreamed of, i'd be a mounted policeman jockey pro tennis player....not necessarily in that order.

Deb....speaking of mounting....ahh...never mind:p

Riot 07-05-2007 04:13 PM

That's right, us older, self-sufficient and financially-independent chicks rock.

We always have enough cash money on hand for bail when WE go out :D

GPK 07-05-2007 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riot
That's right, us older, self-sufficient and financially-independent chicks rock.

We always have enough cash money on hand for bail when WE go out :D


I think I love you.....

GPK 07-05-2007 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK
I think I love you.....


Allright!!!!!! I can kill a chat in a hurry.:D

Riot 07-05-2007 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK
I think I love you.....

Stand in line, darlin' ...... :p

Hey! Combine your interests, and find a woman who has the bucks to allow you to play 100% of the time?

Danzig 07-05-2007 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK
Deb....speaking of mounting....ahh...never mind:p

:o

Riot 07-05-2007 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlewsMyHero
He would go several days without making a bet sometimes. He was very patient, but he won.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting that.

GPK 07-05-2007 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danzig
:o


;)

pmayjr 07-05-2007 05:48 PM

The thing is-
For someone like me who gets an over-inflated head from time to time and thinks I could maybe pull something like that off for awhile, I think doing it professionally would take all of the fun out of it.

I bet on horses because it's fun, and it's leisure. I take it seriously, but it's not my main source of income. So even when I get killed, I know I'll go to work and get a paycheck on Friday. Now if horse-betting were my career, I don't know if I could handle the emotional swings of getting nose'd at the wire and losing hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. The one thing I know for sure, is emotionally thrilling as a big win is, the feeling of losing a close one feels so much worse and stronger than the feeling of winning. I hope I made some sense there. I guess what I'm getting at, I'm not sure if I could handle the emotions of it.

I think the only way I'd consider it, is if I could go into it almost debt free. Where the bills are paid for awhile. And that's almost impossible, so I'll prolly never try it.

BooBeez 07-05-2007 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mortyfeatherhands
I know Carla would.

What does she know.

Cajungator26 07-05-2007 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BooBeez
What does she know.

Morty, is that you?

unassailable08 07-05-2007 11:17 PM

I got a quote for that
 
Its a tough way to make an easy living.

Thats a quote for making it as Professional Gambler.

I could If I had a big enough bankroll.

pmayjr 07-06-2007 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmfhb411
For anyone here who has that kind of money, don't go lending the best handicapper you know $2k or $20k, who tells you they would make a killing if they had a big enough bankroll. As soon as that player loses a heartbreaker with the biggest wager he has ever put down, his/her approach and emotional outlook will most certainly change. And not for the better.
To be continued..........

I think as a rule in general, there's 2 things I won't lend $$$ for, or ask to borrow $$$ for: gambling or drugs, or to people that are closely affiliated with either.

For the for the "closely affiliated" part, I mean I have a friend who unfortunately in the past has been a pretty hardcore user of many kinds of drugs (thank god he got himself into rehab... clean except for weed so far), and he'd ask to borrow $$$ from me for various things. It would never be for drugs, b8ut the the reason he'd ask to borrow money, is he used it all up buying drugs, so he didn't have any $$$ to do or buy anything else. So I wouldn't lend him $$$, because eventhough he didn't need it for drugs, it was because of drugs that he didn't have the $$$ he needed. So lending him $$$ would still be helping his drug habit, and I refused to be a part of it.

I won't ask to borrow $$$ if the purpose is for gambling. Eventhough I'll get that itch, I'll sit on the sidelines. But I also won't lend anyone $$$ for that purpose either. Pretty much if anyone at the CBY were to ask me for $$$, I'd say no, because the purpose would be obvious.

Mortimer 07-11-2007 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BooBeez
What does she know.

!!


OOOOOOOOOO

Mortimer 07-11-2007 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cajungator26
Morty, is that you?


:rolleyes:

JJP 07-11-2007 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riot
I think I'd have to push at least half a million through the windows a year, to make 100K

If you could get a 20% ROI without a rebate, you'd be crazy NOT to be betting full time.

MISTERGEE 07-11-2007 01:51 PM

rebates are available at about 15%, at a half mill a year in action if you could break even capping you would net $75k.

SentToStud 07-11-2007 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE
rebates are available at about 15%, at a half mill a year in action if you could break even capping you would net $75k.

Where might that be?

MISTERGEE 07-11-2007 02:00 PM

nhplay

SentToStud 07-11-2007 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE
nhplay

I've looked at their site before (what little of it there is). They want a bunch of information without providing anything about their site, etc... Thanks for the response.

Bystander 07-11-2007 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BooBeez
What does she know.

... ;)

JJP 07-11-2007 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE
nhplay

Is NHPlay U.S. based or offshore?

MISTERGEE 07-12-2007 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJP
Is NHPlay U.S. based or offshore?

US BASED AND PARI MUTUEL


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:48 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.