Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

I applaud the effort

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989728196/property-owner-calls-police-after-couple-tries-to-get-married-there

I detest Vegas in general.

I could maybe get on with hanging in a sportsbook on a fall Saturday watching a bunch of games with some money on several of them... But only with a group like is on this board lol...

Beyond that, I have absolutely no use for Vegas.

Same-same never been to vegas though but that's how I would do it.Sports wagering the odds are best - it's the vig that gets pissy.Saw a few pages back of Black Jack discussion.Years ago I watched the Docu - "Bringing Down the House" (based on the book) of the M.I.T Black Jack team.The professor that compiled and directed those teams based his formula on a UCLAs Math Professor formula findings from the '60s,worth the watch or the read.

 There was also a series I think it was Breaking Vegas or sum such about all sorts of cheaters.One was absolutely brilliant some dude took casino coins to a metalurgist who was able to somehow duplicate tokens for the machines.He used the exact composite metal make up and used computers to duplicate the exact outline of the coins and had the total down to the weight also.But every night money and coins are counted out and the House Dicks found something interesting - they were ending up with more casino coins than they had inventoried.For a couple of months this guy won because after payouts he had no investment sans the cost of creating the coins.And the casino(s) count were still showing more coins  than previously inventoried

Eventually they caught the guy with cameras.He was playing a 50.00 coin machine - when one of his coins got hung up he just walked away instead of flagging down help.That tipped his hand,the average gambler would want to be reimbursed.There were all sorts of clever stories like that.I miss the old HISTORY Channel

Same-same never been to vegas though but that's how I would do it.Sports wagering the odds are best - it's the vig that gets pissy.Saw a few pages back of Black Jack discussion.

Yeah, sports betting is just like poker -- a skill game with a high variance due to inherent luck. 

It's also like poker in that the house doesn't care who wins. In sports betting the goal is simply to have 50/50 betting on each side of a wager, and in poker it's just to have action going. Sports betting it's the vig where the house makes its money, poker it's the rake. 

The problem with sports betting, though, is that you can't make money with a 1-2% advantage, because you need to win 55%+ of your bets to beat the vig. Which means the skill isn't in betting every game and hoping that you can win >55%, it's in identifying where the spread or O/U is significantly wrong and that you can figure that out with >55% certainty. 

Way back in 2006 I spent an entire season tracking picks on my old blog. I picked every Big Ten game--minus Purdue because I couldn't separate emotions--which is to say I *picked* Purdue but didn't count it to my season stats because I knew I couldn't be objective... I also would look around at the national scene and pick games where I thought there was something particularly interesting about the matchup or the line. 

Over the course of a season, I would pick 8-10 games per week, and I finished the year with a 62.5% record against the spread. Which I was, and am, pretty proud of.

The problem was that when I did the math, if I had been betting $100/game, over 3+ months of work my entire winnings for the year would have been ~$1K. Based on the number of hours of analysis, the risk, etc, I thought to myself "this is a grind--it's just not worth it."

I need to bone up on my sports gambling theory. Never got into it before, but I also didn't live near a Nevada resort town with several mega-casinos. 

I did watch a you tube video about how to rig the system for comped rooms, and it worked. I get 4 free nights every month. 

I don't do any gambling at all when I am there though, beyond the bare minimum that it takes in order to keep the freebies flowing. 

A tactic I've done "for fun" is bet every dog in bowl season.  It seems to work.  The teams are generally closer in talent than The Public tends to think, and Name Teams get a boost which is not merited, usually.

No no, that's not it at all.  It's always a case of the name team just not wanting to be there.

No no, that's not it at all.  It's always a case of the name team just not wanting to be there.

especially if they are playing Texas

especially if they are playing Texas

or Oklahomo