I'm a machine gunner not a sharp shooter when it comes to sports wagering.

 When it comes to gambling 
1. Know Yourself
2. Handicap YOURSELF
3. - TOMORROW Kalshi BE CAREFULL!!!

Most gamblers dislike my systems EVEN THOUGH - they win.  Weird.  It's because they have been taught to dread losing. I dread not winning.  Most gamblers play 1 or 2 BIG games and hope they hit100% for a big win.  Meanwhile I play 6-8 games and hope I win 60% for many many small wins. 

And I look at all of these facebook pages for sports gamblers and see records and I go back and look and them and #2 happens  HANDICAPP THE HANDICAPER.

Example - one guy was doing GREAT last year - great record and crushing it. I started tracking him - he was GREAT . . . WAS . . .  in his last 20 games he had won like FIVE  and lost Fifteen yet still had a good over all record. 

When you are 5-15  WHY are you still putting plays out and losing!!  THUS - my MLB system I handicap MYSELF.  Why would I put losing plays out.  I'm like 3-13 (as seen on the graph) but with a pretty good record over all. 

This is why the system has won 46+ units in the last year and two months and not 18 units - because I handicap my own system. 

SO - since currently I have 10 teams on my watch list. (When the Main System picks a team I track how that team is doing when its picked. That is how you get on the play list).  It has sucked lately (see chart). 

BUT - today could be big with eight games picked (Brewers are a pick - Miz will give up HRs but Brewers win ) - I WANT to bet but I won't. Let's hope I win all eight and I can start wagering again (of course only for peanuts and toothpicks) 

 As a reminder - this is the wagering system since its inception.

 
      

First time all year - zero picks - SO - Coleman Sports Grill experiment

WELL WELL WELL - not much today 

1. No Picks
Colman sports grill 

WOW - for the very first time this year - zero picks in the Main system.   There are now 8 teams on the watch list and not one of them I have winning today. 

The thing is this system is all about HOW MUCH you win when you win.  Dodgers were -335 last night which is crazy.  The Brewers are starting to get this way.  The are -163 today with May? pitching and his 6.30 ERA? 

SO - we wait. 

MEANWHILE - When at a Brewer game I saw a cool tailgating grill and decided I needed something like that as opposed to my Charcoal grill.  Not EXACTLY the same model but this ROCKS!!! Takes 10 minutes to get to grilling temp AND NOW - I'm obsessed with wood chips.   

The PROBLEM was everything I cook came out well done. SO I bought one of those $6 1 pound packs of burger and made four 1/4 patties all the same size and cooked each one for a different amount of time. 

Minutes on each side 
2 and 2
2 and 3
3 and 3
3 and 4  

3 and 3 was medium and 2 and 3 was medium rare.    I've been using Hickory and a small amount of Apple chips.   More Apple chips with chicken and Oak is always good  Mesquite is rather strong. 

HOPEFULLY more tomorrow Cheers 

The Golden Shoe

1. Hiatus 
2. The Golden Shoe
3. teaser - new Colman Grill experiment 

Best way to see if there is a new blog is just click on 

https://publicenemiescolumbus.blogspot.com/      OR - there is a subscribe button somewhere on the right side.  Again - I get nothing from this - Google says I have controversial topics on my 2000+ blogs but they won't share where they are - WHAT?  ME? CONTROVERSIAL?  It's how I was elected to city council for gosh sakes. DID I MENTION Columbus Water and Light have a spotlight shining on my house 8 months a year?    

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Thinking out loud as I work on the NAMELESS System  -   Maybe I should bet ALL the games?  If it is winning at 4.6% ROI am I missing games to bet on?  I'll have to do some number crunching.  Probably not but . . with so much data collecting I'm always looking for patterns 

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Went 3-1 last night on the Main non-wagering system so its looking better SLIGHTLY. You can see a very small uptick at the very end.  Things can happen quickly though.  NOTE -I do have Brewers winning tonight and Bauers has a great night - we shall see  

This is what The System looks like at the stop wagering point.  

The ISSUE is I go camping every so often for a few days and can't do The System.  OH - I can recreate every thing once I get home so no data is lost.  I always hope I'm camping on a hiatus.  

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The Golden Shoe- DJ and I took a road trip to check out 13 casinos in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I was in my card counting days.  Long Story shorter  - - we were nearing the end and on the way back to Madison was Hole In The Wall casino. 

DJ had had enough so I said - "I'm just going in for ONE shoe just to check it off the list - be back in 15 minutes". 

I buy in for $40 and sit down at a $5 table betting $5.  There was one other player and a couple hands in the count started to turn positive as many small cards were being delt.  After about 5 hands of winning I raised my bet to $10. 

About that time some big LOUD Texan kind of guy with that little string tie thing around his neck with a suit coat sits next to me and slams a green chip ($25) on the table and off we go.  WIN WIN WIN and this guy is LOUD I mean LOUD. 

The count keeps getting better and Tex is annoying me a little as EVERYBODY is now watching our table of screamers and high fivers. NO - I want to be quiet and incognito. 

WIN WIN WIN and pretty soon I'm betting $25 and Tex is betting $75 and then he shoving out $100 WIN WIN WIN.  THIS GUY is SCREAMING with every win and casino suits are starting inch closer to us to pay more attention . . . . TO HIM!! I'm the little guy next to him - shhhhhhh.   

Meanwhile my stack of chips is growing and growing but nobody notices ME as I went from a quiet $5 to betting $40 a hand. And this is a $5 table.  People come and go at the table and they keep losing and I feel bad FOR THEM.  US?   WIN WIN WIN   

The 4? deck shoe comes to an end and Tex has a shit load of chips and I have maybe $500? in front of me.  he Maybe has $1000?  

They change dealers and a more adult person steps in and now I see there are a more then a few Casino suits watching closely. 

WELL - new deck the count is back to zero.  Tex pushes out $100 and I take one tiny red chip from my huge stack and push out $5. I KNOW this raises eyebrows but its my last shoe - I gotta get out of here. 

That last shoe of $5 wagers I lost $30 and Tex?  he lost almost all of his stack. Maybe $700? 

THATS enough for me and they bring a bucket to put all my chips in.   I walk to the cashier and TRY to cash out.  The lady adds it all up and then says "I'll be right back"  BEFORE she gives me my money. 

And I wait . . and wait  . . and wait.   I KNOW the Eye In The Sky is looking for any tells, going through all the hands of both Tex and I.    We had one of our team banned from the Miss Marquette Riverboat Casino a year earlier so I was waiting for the boot. (you really can have your lips move when counting cards LOL)   

BUT - was it me? was it me and Tex?  I was good at counting but the count was SO high I didn't even bother counting any more. I was just high fiving Tex. 

10 minutes later she comes back and hands me $450.  I walk out to DJ in the car and apologize for taking so long and then toss $450 onto her lap!!  The GOLDEN SHOE!    

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Tomorrow  - What happens when you cook 4 burgers on a new Coleman Sports Grill using 4 different times to flip.

Gus the Weather Dog was SO confused.