1) Charlie Thercocksucker is a total slimeball, and I am shocked that nobody has caught up with him.
2) When something appears too good to be true (No juice in the NFL) it always is too good to be true. I should have listened to my parents.
3) I will never keep enormous balances with ANY sportsbook
4) When somebody is popping off about a sportsbook being on the ropes I do my own due diligence as opposed to listening to a few people who may have an agenda
5) I stay with books that have treated my right over the years despite any negative press they may have received. (Pinnacle, Jazz, rio/skybook, Hollywood, Cascade, Cris are books that i have been with for almost 6 years and they have all treated my awesome!) If it ain't broke, why fix it.
6) I read what they say in the forums including Sportsbook Review, but I take it with a grain of salt favoring my personal experiences over conjecture.
7) I look for my own warning signs. Is a sportsbook slow paying ME as opposed to someone I hear about that may or may not be true.
8) I follow my gut instincts as opposed to allowing my greedy side to overwhelm me. In other words, during the Aces Gold collapse, I heard the stories about people getting slow paid, and didn't listen. Even the shrink broke a story a good 2 months before the collapse, and I didn't listen because my "greedy side" couldn't stay away from the "NO JUICE" HUGE NFL limits.
9) I have learned to talk to and listen to my friends during a time of crisis. Had I just listened to a few good friends who owned a couple of sportsbooks, I would have staved off the HUGE beat that I took at the hands of that scumbag. My real "friends" told me months before the collapse that I was an idiot to be there. The people who truly cared about me tried to help, and I didn't listen, hence the financial nightmare that i suffered.
10) I learned humility. After the financial loss that I took in that nightmare, I learned that I can take my ego and throw it into the ditch. I don't know any more than my friends, and when they talk, I now listen. When people talked about Jazz going under a year ago, I spoke to my friends, and they helped me make the right decision to stay with that company. When I heard stuff about Rio/skybook, I spoke to my friends and did my own research and decided to stay with that company. When Cascade had problems, I talked to my friends, and stayed with their company knowing that they had good people behind them. I now place greater creedence in the good people around me who want the best for me, and a lot less in my old "HUGE EGO", that got me nowhere.
Basically, I like a ton of other people in these forums got very very hurt by that disaster. I know this is the holiday season, and I am trying to remain positive. But to forget what happened and brush it under the rug would be very ignorant. We should all try to learn from that nightmare and help each other ensure that something like this never ever happens again.
2) When something appears too good to be true (No juice in the NFL) it always is too good to be true. I should have listened to my parents.
3) I will never keep enormous balances with ANY sportsbook
4) When somebody is popping off about a sportsbook being on the ropes I do my own due diligence as opposed to listening to a few people who may have an agenda
5) I stay with books that have treated my right over the years despite any negative press they may have received. (Pinnacle, Jazz, rio/skybook, Hollywood, Cascade, Cris are books that i have been with for almost 6 years and they have all treated my awesome!) If it ain't broke, why fix it.
6) I read what they say in the forums including Sportsbook Review, but I take it with a grain of salt favoring my personal experiences over conjecture.
7) I look for my own warning signs. Is a sportsbook slow paying ME as opposed to someone I hear about that may or may not be true.
8) I follow my gut instincts as opposed to allowing my greedy side to overwhelm me. In other words, during the Aces Gold collapse, I heard the stories about people getting slow paid, and didn't listen. Even the shrink broke a story a good 2 months before the collapse, and I didn't listen because my "greedy side" couldn't stay away from the "NO JUICE" HUGE NFL limits.
9) I have learned to talk to and listen to my friends during a time of crisis. Had I just listened to a few good friends who owned a couple of sportsbooks, I would have staved off the HUGE beat that I took at the hands of that scumbag. My real "friends" told me months before the collapse that I was an idiot to be there. The people who truly cared about me tried to help, and I didn't listen, hence the financial nightmare that i suffered.
10) I learned humility. After the financial loss that I took in that nightmare, I learned that I can take my ego and throw it into the ditch. I don't know any more than my friends, and when they talk, I now listen. When people talked about Jazz going under a year ago, I spoke to my friends, and they helped me make the right decision to stay with that company. When I heard stuff about Rio/skybook, I spoke to my friends and did my own research and decided to stay with that company. When Cascade had problems, I talked to my friends, and stayed with their company knowing that they had good people behind them. I now place greater creedence in the good people around me who want the best for me, and a lot less in my old "HUGE EGO", that got me nowhere.
Basically, I like a ton of other people in these forums got very very hurt by that disaster. I know this is the holiday season, and I am trying to remain positive. But to forget what happened and brush it under the rug would be very ignorant. We should all try to learn from that nightmare and help each other ensure that something like this never ever happens again.
