Who am I?
I was a mailman when I became obsessed with card counting at blackjack. Not having enough money to play at a pro level, I decided to sell a mathematical formula I’d devised for evaluating games and systems. I offered it for sale through gambling newsletters at $100. I immediately had big sales because no one had ever seen a method for estimating card counters’ win rates. I got letters from college math professors asking me how I’d come up with the math. So, I started my own blackjack newsletter where I published my discoveries. I was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame in 2002 and soon had big investors funding my play.
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Just about every pro gambler I know bets on sports. I have a whole shelf of books on sports betting and this is the only one I’ve read cover to cover. This book will capture you even if you don’t like sports. This is not about handicapping, regression analysis, and interpreting statistics (like most sports-betting how-tos). This author likes prop bets and writes about many actual bets he made and why he made them, usually based on clear logic. He talks about mistakes he’s made, lessons he’s learned. He steers you to the best online sportsbooks, the best sports data bases, and his favorite books on the subject. Fields has made his living from sports betting for more than twenty years. Plus, he’s really funny!
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Of the millions of recreational sports gamblers, only a few achieve long-term positive results. Logan Fields is one such bettor and in 20/20 Sports Betting, he shares his expertise. Fields placed his first sports bet online in 1999 and soon recognized that sports betting was his life’s calling. Only four months later, he left his day job and has been wagering on sports ever since. Logan takes readers through those early years and chronicles how he managed to steadily build his bankroll and quickly transition to become a full-time pro. Baseball, football, golf, NASCAR, hockey, horse racing—name the sport and…