A step-by-step guide to full time sports betting. How the business of sports betting 'works', pointspreads, 'vigorish' & bookmakers. How pros pencil-in a predicted score, how to recognize key pointspreads, how to account for injuries, how to spot motivations, how to beat over/unders, correct money management, how to profit from parlays, how to deal with abstractual factors, how to spot sucker plays, how to beat exhibition season, how to spot motivations, how to form power ratings, how to profit from various special situations...Everything you need to know to beat pro football.
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"...A solid investment for every veteran and certainly for every beginner...Informative, readable, to the point..." -- Howard Schwartz, Gamblers' Book Club, Las Vegas
"...I highly recommend this book...I am very impressed. Helps both the novice and sophisticated..." -- Sonny Reizner, legendary Las Vegas sportbook manager
The only sports betting book recommended to libraries as 'core reading material' by Jack Short, president, American Library Trustee Association -- Jack Short, past president, American Library Trustee Association
"...I highly recommend this book...I am very impressed. Helps both the novice and sophisticated..." -- Sonny Reizner, legendary Las Vegas sportbook manager
The only sports betting book recommended to libraries as 'core reading material' by Jack Short, president, American Library Trustee Association -- Jack Short, past president, American Library Trustee Association
About the Author
J. R. Miller's 'how-to' articles first appeared in the 1980's in the original Gambling Times Magazine. He was selected to Las Vegas' Wall of Fame for his contributions to sports betting, and taught sports betting classes at Clark County Community College, Las Vegas. He was interviewed by The New York Times (Business Section) as a pro gambler, and he's been featured by radio & television shows, newspapers, newsletters, websites & magazines as a top sports betting expert. He served as a consultant to the producers of the television specials, Gambling In America and High Rollers' Las Vegas, and since 1997 he's headed up the award-winning website, Professionalgambler.com.
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A "must have" kind of book.,
This review is from: How Professional Gamblers Beat the Pro Football Pointspread (Paperback)
You look for a book with information about betting? You are in a good place. However, this book is not worth +$20. It is worth ten times it.
No matter if you are a begginer or you make a living off betting - you should read this book. J.R Miller has over twenty year experience and you might be sure every single piece of information included in this book is a great help for your betting career. Have you ever wondered how bookmakers set the lines or how they balance the book in order to earn? With this book you will learn a lot of details about work of sports book. Without these information you are like a soldier without a weapon. You must understand your opponent in order to beat him. What factors are most important when you make your every day bet- selection process ? Is it teams' motivation, mental approach, statistics? With this book you find out a lot about every of these factors and you will be able to compute them into one succesfull winning proces. You have always thought, a good punter is a punter with a high yield (ROI) ? Frankly, I do not care about yield and neither does J.R Miller. It is better to have 1200 selections with 5% ROI than back 4 super-bankers a week and achieve 25% yield. Why? because it is about making money. Paramethers are only on paper. What you should care of is money. And not hit rate, not yield, but earned units/profit is the single important rate. It is very simple, is not it? But try asking this question people familiar with betting and note how many care more about yield than profit(!). You should grind with 1% of bank to spread a risk - not make a little number if bets with well-looking yield. If you fell you have 1% or 2% Expected Value in a particular bet - place a bet. Do not look for bankers, for great valuebets - take everything you have an edge over bookmaker. In a long term it brings you low yield but a lot of money. There is great chapter about money managament. It is worth this 25 bucks itself. It exlains a term of plateu and describes how strongly it influences your profitability. My favourtie chapter, however is about Winning Percentages. It deals with short-term and long-term results. How many bets you are likely to hit in you next 10 bets if your winning rate is 6? You would be suprised how LITTLE is probability of hitting exactly six. Yes, it is the most probable outcome but it is very low. You can go 3/10 with similiar probablity. This chapter deals with the issues that turn a good punter (with solid selections and proper money managament scheme) into real bookie busher who rides through losing streaks without any harm , spend easy-earned money anywhere he wants and he has no doubts about the selections he makes. With good theoretical backround you will learn that betting has more in common with investing than stock exchange. And if you wonder if it is for US punters exclusively - my qucikly reply is: "it is not". I bet on only on European Soccer and MIller's book was one of my major sources of windsom in this field.
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Miller's book is interesting, and mathematically sound. Some of the angles are new, and they present a different slant to a perplexing challenge.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Non Fiction,
By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How Professional Gamblers Beat the Pro Football Pointspread (Paperback)
A look at one particular player's methodology in the past to bet on the NFL, and to sell selections, of course.
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When first beginning to bet on sports most men regard their ability to win much the same as their ability to perform sex; they feel they have an inborn talent that makes them better at it than every other man in the history of the universe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internet sportbooks, general betting public, vigorish charge, parlay bets, defensive rating, offensive rating, winning expectation, using parlays, parlay cards, established starters, divisional rival, sports bettor, bet size, percent expectation, winning rate, most bettors, posted line, individual bets, league average, single bets, exhibition season, second bet, different bets, home field advantage, more bets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Super Bowl, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Kelly Criterion, New England, Chicago Bears, Gambler's Fallacy, Pro Bowl, San Francisco, Sonny Reizner, Art Manteris, Bad Timing, Jack Painter New!
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When first beginning to bet on sports most men regard their ability to win much the same as their ability to perform sex; they feel they have an inborn talent that makes them better at it than every other man in the history of the universe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internet sportbooks, general betting public, vigorish charge, parlay bets, defensive rating, offensive rating, winning expectation, using parlays, parlay cards, established starters, divisional rival, sports bettor, bet size, percent expectation, winning rate, most bettors, posted line, individual bets, league average, single bets, exhibition season, second bet, different bets, home field advantage, more bets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Super Bowl, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Kelly Criterion, New England, Chicago Bears, Gambler's Fallacy, Pro Bowl, San Francisco, Sonny Reizner, Art Manteris, Bad Timing, Jack Painter New!
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- Sports Betting by Jim Jasper on page 118
- Revelations in Sports Betting (Opus 5) by Bob McCune on page 38, and Back Matter
- Insights into Sports Betting (2nd Edition, New & Revised) by Bob McCune on page 42
- Education of a Sports Bettor by Bob McCune on page 42
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