Like you said, trust fund kids and drug dealers and scions of rich shipping barons have been playing this role for decades. The more interesting part is how they attract other high profile celebrities and high rollers. This kid is too brash and young to attract true money, like hedge fund guys and old money guys with a gambling Jones.
I’ve toyed with the idea that it would be an interesting/profitable social experiment/hustle/business to create the myth of the reclusive sports betting sharp who has been a quiet huge winning bettor for decades via social media mentions since the days of PeterDC. I was kind of shocked how he ingratiated himself into the gambling world despite being a full blown degenerate. He wasn’t even really from central casting, yet pulled off a lot of scams via his access to other people’s money and lifestyle.
It seems we have enough true betting sharps and posters with connections to respected gamblers here to create and maintain the illusion. We’d need to set up a seed fund and social media whisper campaign that struck just the right chord. Respected gamblers who make the occasional random tweet about getting down a large # on a game because they were fortunate to find out who(insert name) took a position on. Create our own reclusive Billy Walters character out of thin air that gradually morphs into a high end tout service.
When I saw that transparent clown on CNBC get a reality show a few years back despite being a clear losing hack without style, it further piqued my interest. It seems like you could create a really solid business model without it being a scam. I’ve thought about this a lot over the years. The logistics behind making it work.
When I saw the PeterDC character emerge I thought to myself how easily I could pull that off. I’m simply not a full on conman though, and I’m fully cognizant that I’m not a sharp. I’d gladly play the role though if I felt I was dishing out sound advice. What I’d be great at is playing that role of a reclusive high end front man for actual sharps. I’d actually come out of my self-imposed exile and move to Vegas for something like this. We’re in an era where the illusion is more important than reality. I’m the right age to play a long term under the radar genius. I’m comfortable amongst the educated moneyed person who loves to gamble and golf and would smell out an uneducated person, yet I’m also comfortable with the more street element of that world. I simply couldn’t finance it all by myself, nor have the gambling world connections that would be necessary to start a grass roots whisper campaign.
I think that there is an incredible opportunity that will emerge for high end tout services fronted by the right person, but using the picks of actual sharps. I think it would be incredibly lucrative. I see far too many NY street types who come off as anything but cerebral. You’d need to start the whisper campaign long before implementing the end game. You’d need to appear a long term sharp content to bet their own games and employ runners until it was getting too difficult to get down wagers, and with the impending sports betting boom, reluctantly agrees to take on a select clientele.
Like I said, I’ve had this idea for a long time, and it seems at this point, we have enough posters here with a high sports betting acumen and others who have the resources to financially launch something like this. I’d be willing to move and invest my own money if others see the niche/vision that I’m seeing, and we could get together the right group. I’m talking a slow build tout operation which is a combination of wagering on sharps picks here mixed with a social media campaign with nuanced mentions. We’d segregate the money, I’d move out and start playing the reclusive winner who gets reluctantly introduced by the Vegas locals here under the caveat that I don’t like to talk shop with many people. Like I said, I think it has incredible potential. It’s salemanship, and self-promoted myth, but not a scam imo if it’s placing wagers and dishing out advice from the Daly’s of the world. It’s Jay Gatsby takes on sports betting. It’s American business as it’s presently practiced for the most part. Someone is going to do it. I can see it already. You need the right people dropping your name, and then one of the casino oddsmakers who are often interviewed before big sports events simply adding your name to a haralabob or Walters when they discuss who they look to when setting a line, and you’re off to the races.
We’d also need Druff to delete this thread.
I’m an idea man Chuck
and this is one I’ve put on the shelf for quite awhile, so feel free to mock or constructively punch holes in the plan. I’m curious for feedback. I’ve seen elements of this is certain operations, but none that nailed the whole vision of what I’m talking. Most of the operations are too in your face.