Are you eliminated without sportsmen?

It's a riddle that many ATS fortune hunters have to contend with. Sports gambling can be a great leisurely activity for all, but for the well-versed sports teachers, it can be a lucrative undertaking.

With twice leading international searches for elite sports handicappers, once as GM of Freescoreboard, the first toll-free coast-to-coast scorephone network and then on OffshoreInsiders.com, widely accepted as the leading handicapping site, I can tell you the quality sports handicappers are few and far between.

There are smart and wise guys who make a lot of money playing sports, but it takes the opportunity to both make online shopping and avoid the outcome of games to make it profitable.

While my clients line-tracking skills are their own, the most important doomsday machine that can protect an opportunity port knows how to check the right sides and totals. As the musician was told on the way to Carnegie Hall, the only solution is to practice, practice and practice.

Let there be no doubt that there are a limited number of qualified professional disability experts and we have several of the elite pair on OffshoreInsiders.com. Unfortunately, the consumer is forced to indulge by the much more common coin flippers with a grandiloquent selling price before discovering the master confidants.

Too often desperate gamblers are clawing for a windbag that speaks the talk but cannot run the walk. Sometimes the other extreme happens. Ironically, so many clients fall prey to the idea that they are pure benefactors to the wolves in sheep's clothing.

They are confused in thinking that virtuous means a virtuoso. It amazes me how these people are most easily hoodwinked seeing how they present themselves as the more discriminating shoppers of sports investment advisors.

I have seen on internet placement boards for example Gamblers assign credibility to handicappers using the bottom rung criterion of simply admitting to losing days. Any huckster can just get on his head if he plucked the tails. Professional Gamblers can only sneer at such easily failed Gamblers who keep the bookmakers in business for the rest of us.

The polished magnate is much more concerned with handicappers who have a few losers to declare than those who think sports books are just confessional boxes. "Bookmaker forgive me because I lost, it's been three weeks since my last winner." If you can find a bookmaker that accepts "ail Marys" and "Our Fathers" as payment, more power to you. The rest of you I would beg to set the bar much higher when buying advice.

In Advertising 101, they learn "to sell the sis and not the steak." But there really is no correlation between hard-selling / soft-peddle and legitimate / illegitimate in this field.

Let me just expand. This is not to say that one should give profits to the infamous snake oil sellers. Be sure anyone who claims "inside information" or implies that a game is a certain thing; the only conclusion is that you better hope that the shyster you paid for uses the lucky paper clip.

A sharp player never only gives the whistling wheel the oil, but also does not fall for the fad of legitimacy that uninformed consumers easily give to the soft-paddlers.

Some boast because they can, others ballyhoo because a sales pitch is all they have.

Very often I get an email from someone who says they want me to give them my premium picks for a few weeks and then when they are satisfied, they will buy a long-term package.

Although gambling by its usual definition includes a "gambling" I wish all worldly efforts that by their nature involve less risk than gambling could come with such a guarantee and free lunches as requested by the likes I just mentioned.

Now, speaking of free lunches, my only other obsession besides triumphant prognosis is eating. Can you remember when I went into a restaurant and told her that she should give me some free meals before I decide if I wanted to agree to buy a meal?

Do not forget what I claim, restaurants and many other companies give free samples. Oh, I'm so enlightened about that. My wife saw one day on television how easy it is to get free samples over the internet. Our life and mailbox have never been the same since. But I wander off.

Car dealers allow safe test drives. Likewise, reputable handicappers can not only get you free selections, but more importantly you can experience, enjoy and participate in their expertise. Well-informed and experienced handicappers should have no problem proving their skills before a game even begins with the depth of its accompanying analysis.

What, there was no reasoning and justificationbber baron is trying to simply pawn off a guess, it is tough to present scrutiny and research when it consists of a wink and a smile.

But again, those who happily make payment for blind faith underwrite the bookmakers so they can painlessly benefact those of us who live and breathe sports betting.

A learned foreteller should have articulated widely published articles on gaming theory and strategy. Any handicapper who wants your patronage would be happy to showcase gaming scholarly doctrine. It is his best sales tool.

An educated buyer is good for both the gambler and top shelf handicapper. But those who want to judge all professional speculators by the actions of the most notorious are doing themselves and the true pros an injustice. Prejudice against members of any profession may be more politically correct than preconceived notions against someone because of their race, color or creed, but it is narrow-minded bigotry nonetheless.

Neither blind faith nor McCarthyism towards professional handicappers will do you fairness. But investing money in the proper middleman is most conducive to making coach potatoism a bull market.