With internet gambling, has the local bookie become extinct?

[biteme]

How many of you bet on a regular basis?

 

[gotmilk]

They still exist. just not as many.

I bet often but I also have ties to casino operators and owners.

I use BETDAQ alot for one-to-one betting.

 

[biteme]

They still exist. just not as many.

I bet often but I also have ties to casino operators and owners.

I use BETDAQ alot for one-to-one betting.

I met one and the dude makes a ton of money. I wonder how they get their clients and how they make money since they are bound to get stiffed occasionally.

 

[gotmilk]

I had a kid in my dorms at college who was a bookie. He wasn't too big but still cleared about $500 a week. Pretty good for a full time student.

I think clients were mostly word of mouth. You start small and branch out thru references.

As for getting stiffed, my guy was a cash only player. No cash..no play.

His "guy" was in Brockton Mass and it was like the Whitey Bulger family reunion when I dropped off my betting slip one day. Even Swole would be nervous.

 

[biteme]

I had a kid in my dorms at college who was a bookie. He wasn't too big but still cleared about $500 a week. Pretty good for a full time student.

I think clients were mostly word of mouth. You start small and branch out thru references.

As for getting stiffed, my guy was a cash only player. No cash..no play.

His "guy" was in Brockton Mass and it was like the Whitey Bulger family reunion when I dropped off my betting slip one day. Even Swole would be nervous.

You had to deposit the cash up front? WHo's the Whitey Bulger family?

 

[gotmilk]

pay up front.

Whitey is on the FBI most wanted list. He killed a shitload of people in South Boston. A major mobbed up guy.

 

[biteme]

pay up front.

Whitey is on the FBI most wanted list. He killed a shitload of people in South Boston. A major mobbed up guy.

Damn. What they do? I don't wanna make the same mistake. LOL

 

[hamstershaver]

as bad as some gamblers are here on ef i cant believe swole doesnt have 10million k yet, i just shake my head at some of the plays

 

[BrothaBill]

pay up front.

Whitey is on the FBI most wanted list. He killed a shitload of people in South Boston. A major mobbed up guy.

And he's Irish and worked WITH fbi agents, I think they were Irish too. See, the Irish run everything behind the scenes

 

[gotmilk]

Damn. What they do? I don't wanna make the same mistake. LOL

mostly rats and people trying to edge into Whitey's business in Southie. He'd dump their bodies under bridges, bury them in his backyard, dump them into the Charles River. The FBI found a body in his garage floor.

A dirty FBI agent tipped him off and he's been gone for the last 15 years. Probably in South America somewhere.

People talk about New Jersey and New York mobsters, but Brockton/Boston is bas ass

He ruled Boston bigtime. Cross him and you would get fucked up.

 

[biteme]

mostly rats and people trying to edge into Whitey's business in Southie. He'd dump their bodies under bridges, bury them in his backyard, dump them into the Charles River. The FBI found a body in his garage floor.

A dirty FBI agent tipped him off and he's been gone for the last 15 years. Probably in South America somewhere.

People talk about New Jersey and New York mobsters, but Brockton/Boston is bas ass

He ruled Boston bigtime. Cross him and you would get fucked up.

I love to read the 'true crime story' books. Is there a book out on this guy? Ever hear of "Air America"?

 

[gotmilk]

Do a google search for Whitey Bulger.

 

[BrothaBill]

Growing up: Born in 1929 to James and Jean Bulger, James “Whitey”, Jr. grew up between two distinct sections of South Boston- the heavily Irish City Point and the more ethnically diverse Lower End. The Bulgers were among the first people to live in one of the first public housing projects in New England.

Wrong Crowd: While his brother, Billy went on to fame, James was getting a suspended sentence in juvenile court on larceny charges. Whitey spent more time in court than he did high school. By the time he was 27 he had died his hair and was robbing banks. James was one of the toughest kids ever to come out of the gangs around infamous Mercer Street. In 1956 he went to prison for 10 years.

+++++ By the early '70s, Bulger teamed up with mobster Stephen Flemmi and was climbing the ladder of Somerville's Winter Hill Gang, a well-known Irish gang in the Boston area. Bulger was seen as a ruthless killer



Even Ebert and Roeper drew comparisons between the Irish Mob and the Italian Mob, saying you dont hear of the Irish guys who are far more ruthless, b/c theyll kill you

 

[BUBBLES]

And he's Irish and worked WITH fbi agents, I think they were Irish too. See, the Irish run everything behind the scenes

I love Irish people for their humour and theis fun loving attitude in life.


Mwahhhh

 

[BrothaBill]

I love Irish people for their humour and theis fun loving attitude in life.


Mwahhhh

You better love the Irish, the world didnt know what it was getting into when the British starved us to death forcing us to to look for new hope.
When you live on an island, ya gots to laugh with your brothern, its not like Africa or the middle east where you can be an arsehole to one another then move to Mongolia. On an Island that size, theyll eventually find ya. Weeded out the bastards who werent fun to hang with.

Also, some amount of natural playfulness in business affairs is inbred having to survive on an island. Islanders are more mellower naturally

But we have the temper of a boiling kettle if crossed, mellowed by a quick return to logic and a pint of Guinness

 

[BUBBLES]

You better love the Irish, the world didnt know what it was getting into when the British starved us to death forcing us to to look for new hope.
When you live on an island, ya gots to laugh with your brothern, its not like Africa or the middle east where you can be an arsehole to one another then move to Mongolia. On an Island that size, theyll eventually find ya. Weeded out the bastards who werent fun to hang with.

Also, some amount of natural playfulness in business affairs is inbred having to survive on an island. Islanders are more mellower naturally

But we have the temper of a boiling kettle if crossed, mellowed by a quick return to logic and a pint of Guiness

LOL a pint of Guiness...that is funny.

I found this little story pertaining to the analysis results that support or refute each of the several assertions in the Irish stereotypes.

After the potato famine in 1847 the Irish had to face new battles as they emigrated to the United States. These immigrants had to fight their way past oppression and into main stream society. With their hearts, wits, and fists, they made America their own. “Over the decades violence often flared between Irish neighborhoods and those of other ethnic groups like the Italians or Jews. That violence was not, as Marxists always like to say, due to the conditions of capitalism or of poverty, because the other groups were equally poor but rarely fought with each other. Time and again the common correlate of the violence was the participation of the Irish.

 

[BrothaBill]

LOL a pint of Guiness...that is funny.

I found this little story pertaining to the analysis results that support or refute each of the several assertions in the Irish stereotypes.

After the potato famine in 1847 the Irish had to face new battles as they emigrated to the United States. These immigrants had to fight their way past oppression and into main stream society. With their hearts, wits, and fists, they made America their own. “Over the decades violence often flared between Irish neighborhoods and those of other ethnic groups like the Italians or Jews. That violence was not, as Marxists always like to say, due to the conditions of capitalism or of poverty, because the other groups were equally poor but rarely fought with each other. Time and again the common correlate of the violence was the participation of the Irish.

We were by artists times in newspapers described as Monkeys and has always been anymous in certain ethnic cities against the Irish. But we conquered most prejudice. Became the police, ran all that shit, city officials, assumed positions of power. Opened pubs, ran the social scene. A true American success story the Irish.
Now were attacked and lumped in with the whites who oppressed us just the same. Silly, my family came over not too long ago. I aint pay one red nickel out of my paycheck for historical injustices to people who bitch too much. You are in THE US. Anyone can make it here, got the bull by the horns, and people still find a way to justify their own failures of their culture.

I once knocked out a coupla guys after I said the Irish are the best people on the planet, this after a night of drinking. All of a sudden they are saying Im racist. Im like, no, we are.

 

[biteme]

pay up front.

Whitey is on the FBI most wanted list. He killed a shitload of people in South Boston. A major mobbed up guy.

Do they have to pay the juice up front as well? Lay down 110 to win 100?

 

[BUBBLES]

We were by artists times in newspapers described as Monkeys and has always been anymous in certain ethnic cities against the Irish. But we conquered most prejudice. Became the police, ran all that shit, city officials, assumed positions of power. Opened pubs, ran the social scene. A true American success story the Irish.
Now were attacked and lumped in with the whites who oppressed us just the same. Silly, my family came over not too long ago. I aint pay one red nickel out of my paycheck for historical injustices to people who bitch too much. You are in THE US. Anyone can make it here, got the bull by the horns, and people still find a way to justify their own failures of their culture.

I once knocked out a coupla guys after I said the Irish are the best people on the planet, this after a night of drinking. All of a sudden they are saying Im racist. Im like, no, we are.

So you are racist?

Those guys deserved a punch for not recognizing greatness!!!

The Irish are still the best at cooking, drinking, humour, looks, in bed (from what I read in differendt books), work and beating the crap out of someone and lets not forget the hot accent.

 

[SoreArms]

wasn't he the one that was working with an FBI agent, the FBI agent was using him as a means to climb up the ranks, Whitey never gave him any real info and in return the FBI agent tipped him off on tons of busts, busted his enemies and let him get away with tons of illegal shit for the sake of the "investigation"?

 

[BrothaBill]

So you are racist?

Those guys deserved a punch for not recognizing greatness!!!

The Irish are still the best at cooking, drinking, humour, looks, in bed (from what I read in differendt books), work and beating the crap out of someone and lets not forget the hot accent.

no, just proud of my heritage and what my family has had to endured as any race should do, yeah, they were black guys with just as much pride as me, so after a night of drinking, that usually ended up in brawling, we are the best of friends.
I cant remember their names right now which sux, but we had a tough crew, Irish, mexica and blacks, even an asian guy, great house. Times long since past. Racism didnt exist when we all got drunk and sang Jimmy Buffet arm in arm singing wasting a way again in Margaritaville.
Scots, Micks, chinks, spics, negroes. All of us were just having fun and comradery.
I told you before, we routinely beat the shit out of each other. THen wake up and dust ourselves and laugh at the bruises. Dust people with flour to ole fashion them if they passed out too soon or put super death hotsauce in their mouth, the real cause as to why I knock those guys out, grrr. After that, my army buddy, known on the boards as neurosys, ipecaced them with vomit on one of the guy's birthdays, hilarious fun.
Those were fun days, cant do that being a professional, but great experience of brotherhood.

Then Ive told the story of Chief before, he was at the house, great guy, sober, an American Indian. Drink til he would passout. A no-no at the house. I was laughing and said lets put a condom between his buttcheeks, he was literally passed out. Then we were dying the guys, I mixed some flour and water into a paste and glued his hairy asscheeks together, still laughing, we put it in his goatee, tied his shoes together, put it all over his hairy cheeks so it dried into a crust.
It was hilarious.
He woke up and no one said a word, he kept all to himself and asked another guy privately. "What happened last night?"

lololol, no one told him, we were dying. He ended punching Panch for no reason and got beat up and never came around again

 

[Gambino]

I read a book on Bulger...his bro was the university of mass (?) president and he had to resign to to allegations of helping his brother bounce. John Connoly, the FBI agent, got 10 yrs for aiding bulger in his illegal ventures...btw the neighberhood book will always be around to satisfy those who want their betting history completely off record

 

[natty]

Still plenty of bookies out there but definitely not as many with the offshore boom.

 

[satchboogie]

if vegas and atlantic city run legally, i dont see a reason why other cities worldwide shouldnt run gambling!

in turkey up until 5 years ago, gambling was legal.
the dumbfucks made it illegal. .literally shootin themselves in the foot.. all that money from tourism/gambling gone!

 

[hamstershaver]

if vegas and atlantic city run legally, i dont see a reason why other cities worldwide shouldnt run gambling!

in turkey up until 5 years ago, gambling was legal.
the dumbfucks made it illegal. .literally shootin themselves in the foot.. all that money from tourism/gambling gone!

im pretty sure atlantic city doenst have sports books, only vegas does

 

[natty]

No Nevada is the only state with legal sports betting. The only other thing I know of that is kind of close to being legal sports betting in the US is Florida casino cruises but they have to go a certain distance out to sea before the gambling is legal.