Make A Living Betting Horses? - Page 3

Danzig · #41 07-05-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

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

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 · #42 07-05-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

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

Im not into young chicks

SlewsMyHero · #43 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 · #44 07-05-2007, 04:10 PM

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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

Riot · #45 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

GPK · #46 07-05-2007, 04:13 PM

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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

I think I love you.....

GPK · #47 07-05-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

I think I love you.....

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

Riot · #48 07-05-2007, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

I think I love you.....

Stand in line, darlin' ......

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

Danzig · #49 07-05-2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

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

Riot · #50 07-05-2007, 04:26 PM

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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 · #51 07-05-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

pmayjr · #52 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 · #53 07-05-2007, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by mortyfeatherhands

I know Carla would.

What does she know.

Cajungator26 · #54 07-05-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by BooBeez

What does she know.

Morty, is that you?

unassailable08 · #55 07-05-2007, 11:17 PM

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 · #56 07-06-2007, 12:45 PM

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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.