Hi guys. Long time lurker, first time poster.
Over the course of the 12 months, I think I've found an edge with soccer betting. Specifically goal totals and team totals. I mostly target full match, second half totals, and specific team totals. In these 12 months, I've managed to turn a starting bankroll of $4,000 into a little over $180,000.
The issue I am facing now is that most of the legal bookies I have used, including but not limited to: bet365, betano, betway, fanduel, draftkings etc, have limited my bets to pennies or a few dollars per bet, even for the well known leagues. I decided to give a few popular crypto bookies a try, and those have limited me even faster. The only bookie that has not limited me is pinnacle, but they have been giving me issues with cashing out and are consistently delaying my withdrawals/asking for documentation.
So the question is, what would you do in my situation? Please do not say Vegas because I don't think I am at that level yet, especially considering I am still in college and currently studying. I'm mostly an introvert as well and spend 18 hrs a day on the computer. I find myself constantly looking for good betting opportunities and think I could do this full time in the future, I just don't know how. With bookies clearly limiting winners, I'm not sure where to turn. I've read about Haralabos Voulgaris and how he used to have "beards" place bets for him, including Floyd Mayweather, but I don't know how I would go about doing that.
Any advice would be appreciated. I am mostly just looking for advice or stories from people in a similar situation. I'm not winning at a 100% win rate either, but out of lets say 4 bets, I am consistently able to win 3/4. Some days I would even just place 1 "safe bet", and if that safe bet won, I would call it a day, or if it lost, I would double down on the next and take my winnings and run. The only issue is that many of the bookies I have used have limited me to the point where even if I lost just $500, I would be unable to place $1,000 on the next bet. It's super frustrating, especially with a bankroll of over $180,000. Yet I was just scrolling through sites like Ladbrokes and Stake, and I see some people placing $100,000+ bets per match. How is this possible?
Are these people sponsored or something?
Please keep discussion in this forum as I am unable to respond to DMs as a newbie. I do have a Telegram account for those looking to have a more in depth chat, but I am not sure if I am allowed to post it here (same username as BitcoinTalk).
Well as others have said, if you have such a sure fire and reproducible strategy then you should have no problem showing your friends how it is done - even if you gave them 20% to use their accounts you'd be making big bank. How exactly are you seeing people making $100k bets on Ladbrokes? As far as I know that is all private information that they don't share anywhere, no idea if Stake offers up that kind of information though. You should also note that a $100k bet might be pocket change to a select group of high rollers and those high rollers will be turning over enough bets, probably at a marginal loss, that the bookmakers keep them around and even woo them for future business.