Submitted by rsteel on
Is there even such a beast as a legitimate handicapper? Touts Scam Artists Con Men Marketers Low Lifes etc. etc they are everywhere especially this time of year when football is underway. These con men are NOT sports bettors NOT handicappers just frauds trying to separate you from your money. I will NEVER NEVER recommend anyone EVER pay money for sports selections.
Touts use marketing techniques such as inside information, locks of the year, game of the month, system play that has never lost, 10,000 star selection, trends that go back 20 years or another good one this team is 5-1 on Thursday nights. Usually these picks are centered on a high profile game that most are interested on. Think about it if this tout was making so much money himself on sports betting why does he need people’s lousy $100. Really? There is a sucker born every minute.
Often the tout will give out both sides of a game. So 50 people get Team A 50 people get team B half are happy and come back paying thousands of dollars for a season only to realize too late it is a scam.
Perhaps you do not have the time or the experience or knowledge to handicap the games yourself. That is when someone you TRUST who is NOT selling their picks can be advantageous. I know this is not common but this is the only way to begin. A person selling picks is always under pressure to post picks regardless if that pick has value or not. After all that is how they make money. So even if you have a handicapper with sincere intentions the minute they charge for picks they have crossed the line with a conflict of interest.
A legitimate handicapper can help put you on more winners and keep you off more losers which is just as important. No different than a stock broker financial planner with a proven track record.
Keep in mind and very important especially in the beginning if you decide to bet the picks of a handicapper you cannot cherry pick. In other words you bet all the plays or none you cannot miss any bets or you expose yourself to luck and randomness.
Sports handicapping is a predictive science. A good honest handicapper uses his knowledge and experience to interpret data and find wagering value in the betting marketplace. Long hours dedication an obsessiveness and hard work. Attempting to find value daily that allows you to grind out profits over the long term. It is not glamorous or sexy but it is reality or fantasy. Once people get over the fallacies of a get rich quick scheme easy money promoted by the touts; they are than able to seriously approach sports betting with the proper mindset and realistic goals.