What got you into sports gambling?

Sound of Silence

Sound of Silence

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Whenever I see the sportsbook.com banner I always think about my freshman year in college... Saw a sportsobok.com ad somewhere online, thought "I could make money doing that", and the rest was history.

1) When did you first start sports gambling?

2) What was your first online sportsbook?
 
ChrisGo

ChrisGo

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when I was a youngster, I remember seeing my grandpa filling out parlay cards on sunday, I would have to run it up to the locals house every sunday for him. When I got older and met my future wife, her father bet with a local, As I got to know him better I would get him to place a few wagers for me, mostly college football back then. that was the only sport I played. When I went off to college, a buddy of mine wanted to start betting on ncaa hoops, so we got a cash advance off our credit card and sent it to a online book. I think it was sportingbetusa, but i'm not 100% sure. We quickly lost all of 2000$ and he didn't play anymore. Now, I still use a local for football, but online for all other sports.
 
blue edwards

blue edwards

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it was 1978 and i was in 2nd grade. my good friend timmy said the steelers would beat dallas in the superbowl. i said no way. he said wanna bet? i said ok...how about $1.

been chasing ever since.

by the way, i have to think they were dogs in that game. they lost by four but, since i was 7 and did not know what a point spread was, i did not get any points.

anyone know if dallas covered?

my first online book was esb in 1996.
 
dmmd98

dmmd98

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I believe that was the year books took a beating on the point spread since 4 was the middle number as the game opened -3.5 and closed at -4.5.
 
peteep

peteep

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Saw a BOS ad in Maxim about 9 years ago. Called them up to ask a few questions and sent in a western union that day. I remember winning my first bet (bucs)....think I won about 4 in a row. If only it were that easy.
 
Bucky

Bucky

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Always played entertainment type plays at the local pool hall but won a nickel on a radio (pick the score) contest when Green Bay beat New England 35-21 in a Super Bowl. Sent it to ABC Islands.
 
BigDaddy

BigDaddy

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Started out playing pool in a pool hall made a little money met the local bookie and been hooked ever since!

Just loved those 3 team parlays that payed 5 to 1 $100 wins $400 LOL!
 
mofome

mofome

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it was 1990 when i was in grade school. I bet my friend his bucket of change vs mine that my Vols would beat his team. Vols won and i was a rich kid

:+excited-

first sportsbook was www.sportsbook.com

havent used them in a long while tho. Stic with thegreek and pinn. then i have a few locals, but i have had 3 locals in the past roll on me without paying, so i dont have a great fondness of them. Also have a new member on this site that screwed me outta of few K. Not my thing, trusting those that take bets
 
Bucky

Bucky

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Big Daddy - LOL - that was back in the days when we didn't know the difference in 5 to 1 and 5 for 1 unless you were a craps player. Did they pay the same way on a 5 team Doyle? Charge juice on a 3 team - 4 team Doyle, etc.
 
Zanoback

Zanoback

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Sound of Silence said:
Whenever I see the sportsbook.com banner I always think about my freshman year in college... Saw a sportsobok.com ad somewhere online, thought "I could make money doing that", and the rest was history.

1) When did you first start sports gambling?

2) What was your first online sportsbook?
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I started sports gambling approx. 18 - 20 years ago with a local. (Pay Wednesday, collect Thursday)

ABC Island was my first online book.

and WWTS was my first offshore account (telephone).
 
BigDaddy

BigDaddy

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Bucky said:
Big Daddy - LOL - that was back in the days when we didn't know the difference in 5 to 1 and 5 for 1 unless you were a craps player. Did they pay the same way on a 5 team Doyle? Charge juice on a 3 team - 4 team Doyle, etc.
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Never heard the term but 2-4 team parlays any push also counted as a loss so go 3-0-1 for a buck and lose:+signs8-7
 
Reload

Reload

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I started a new job once about six years ago. Felt bored every day when I started so I kept surfing the net. Then I came across the mvpbets.com site and they were offering a free sports beeper with a pretty low deposit (something like $300 or $500). I thought it would be a cool thing to have and throwing a few dollars on games each night helped get me through those boring days.

By a year or so later, I stepped up my action a lot and it paid off. I also came across the Rx and then began opening a couple of other accounts. Since then I always try out a couple of new books each year.

Overall, I've had a lot of up's and down's but in the end this kind of thing fulfilled what I wanted it to. And participating in these forums is another good way to get through each day. Lots of us out there going through the same kinds of problems. We learn from each other and we all work together to "bury the man" so to speak. It's all good.
 
Dante

Dante

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started doing Rocks/paper Scissors in 6th grade for quarters ...then flipping them closest to the wall would win


the rest is history:smokesmal
 
mofome

mofome

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I used to flip a coin and try to get it to land no my friends best baseball cards, if the entire quarter was on the card, it became yours.

i was good at that
 
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TONY MONTANA

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I've been pitching quarters, rolling dice and playing liars poker since I was a youngster!!
But POPPA SHRINK got me into sports gambling!! about 1993!!:+waving-5
 
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UWinSports

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Sound of Silence said:
Whenever I see the sportsbook.com banner I always think about my freshman year in college... Saw a sportsobok.com ad somewhere online, thought "I could make money doing that", and the rest was history.

1) When did you first start sports gambling?

2) What was your first online sportsbook?
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Had a racetrack buddy that I would bet with. We would take turns picking teams out of the newspaper and bet each other $10 dollars a game. Then one day he said he saw a add in a sports magazine of a sportsbook that would take your action by phone. Internet wasnt around. It was ESB and the rest was history.


GL and God Bless
 
Shortbus

Shortbus

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when I was in the 4th, 5th, 6th grade my best friend only lived a block away. In the summer time we went bb gun hunting every day behind our house and fishing every day in the summer time. Sometimes we did both.

Whoever caught the most fish or killed the most birds won. We usually laid on the line our best fishing lures or baseball cards.

The competition was FIERCE!

After that, I played poker every weekend in high school and on the bus on the way home from baseball games (only if we won, which we nearly always did).

In college, heck, right when I stepped on campus pretty much was when I made my first bet.

Cybersportsbook was my first online book I'm pretty sure; around 98 or so maybe 99...I can't remember that far back. It was around my junior or senior year in college.

DIAL UP. I hated those days.
 
Shortbus

Shortbus

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I actually remember playing Texas hold 'em for beer bongs as a sophomore. Texas Hold 'em became a pretty popular game around the Fraternity house when I was around. It usually ended up being 5 guys all in and four guys bonging beers about every other hand until we were shitfaced, but it was fun either way.
 
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OMNIVOROUS FROG

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1. 1974 Freshman in High School. Was running parlay cards, betting, capping the entire sked. My dad, brother and I would have capping contests, pools and you make the line tests. I think it started with marbles, when I was 7 or 8. Nobody ever told me marbles would lead to the hard stuff. After seeing how easy it was to take squares marbles, I graduated to pitchin. Mostly quarters. Then sports.

2. Pelican now Jazz
or Premeire League now Eddie's Bank Account


Best Wishes...OF :+waving-5
 
farbror

farbror

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1976 - Soccer Pool Betting (predict 13 games threeway and 10 or more correct picks is payday), Graduated to harness Racing a few years later & got myself an online account pretty late, around 1998 I would think.
 
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pags11

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at the age of eight I was playing three team parlays at the Turf Club in Reno (my dad and grandpa bet them for me)...by the age of ten I was playing straight games...used to bet in high school...have always bet college football and as I've gotten older I bet some college hoops as well...it's just in my blood...sportsbook.com and BOS were my first two books...
 
CHARLIEPEETE

CHARLIEPEETE

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1968 world series i had st. louis for about 120$ american and lost.. been trying to catch it since................:smoke
 
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Whoson1st

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Well it was a dark and stormy night...No; It wasn't. I remember now.

It was Dizzy Dean's fault. For those of you too young to remember him. He used to do the Saturday Game of the Week (baseball on tv) when I was a kid. He had played baseball and his partner Pee Wee Reese had also played. They weren't the best announcers by any means as I look back on those days of my youth. But man could Dizzy sing. ...Wabash Cannon Ball. Then he and Pee Wee would argue over who had the advantage Pitcher or Hitter; all things being equal. Pee Wee said it was the Pitcher and Dizzy said it was the hitter. They argued for years back and forth. Baseball was magical and betting on the World Series --each year...just seemed normal; like a holiday..such as Christmas or whatever you look forward to as a kid. (I once remmber Dizzy saying.....Mrs School teacher, I'm sorry if your kids are saying the word "ain't" (he used to get letter about his grammar)...but MAM...a whole lots of folks who ain't saying ain't ain't eatin".
Yep--it was Dizzy's fault.
 
BETenomics

BETenomics

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had been betting provincial sportsbetting lottery called proline since 96 and in 99 May 10th opened offshore account with Rosies Chalk Island deposited 250 USD then they only paid Mondays so next Monday that came cashed out 3400 WU greatest feeling in the world btw

then opened at BetONSPORTS played there for 7 months then went to OLYMPIC and BETEUROSPORT
 
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