Submitted by rsteel on
Touts Touts Touts they are everywhere. Professional marketers more than sports bettors or handicappers for that matter. Their main goal to separate you from your money. I will NEVER NEVER recommend anyone ever pay money for sports selections.
However perhaps you simply do not have the time experience knowledge to handicap the games yourself. That is when someone you TRUST who is not selling their picks can come in handy. 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. A legitimate handicapper can help put you on a few more winners and help you avoid some more losers. Really no different than a stock broker who has a proven track record.
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.
Many touts will use fancy marketing techniques such as inside information, locks of the year, a system that never lost, 10,000 star selection coincidently usually focused on a high profile game most are interested in. You will never hear the touts talk about discipline, money management, or hard work. Ironically these are the traits that signify successful sports bettors.
Every successful sports bettor does it the same way. Find value that allows you to grind out profits over the long term. It takes a lot of research and a lot of time. It might not sound that glamorous but it is reality over fantasy it is what works over what does not.
Once people get over the fantasy of easy money promoted heavily by the touts you will then be able to seriously and successfully approach sports betting with the proper mindset. A good handicapper can help you by leveraging their time, experience and knowledge to find wagering value and betting opportunities. This is done from hard work like any other lucrative business opportunity NOT from absurd systems star ratings and games of the year.