American Ex Bookie friend of mine (dead now) made a living from Sports Betting, he used to put some serious cash every bet was at least $1000, he used to take advantage of different offers across diff american sports betting websites. He tried explaning it to me a few times but i could never quite get my head around it, plus i knew fuck all about american sports.

On another note
If you are serious enough to put the time in you can make a living from playing online poker, it will drive you mental however.

With another Yank i wrote a program to play online POker for you automatically, it made me quite bit of cash and got me featured in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

so i guess the point is-- you can either work ahrd on tried and tested methods to make money or you can search for that magic bullet and make lots of money..might never happen though

I'm searching for the magic bullet!

I have millions of business ideas, and just no money to back them up.

Times have changed since the days of lord sugar selling AMSTRAD

Being a driver for a cocaine dealer is possibly a safer option for some petty cash, but not exactly 10k a week..

Start your own brothel in a big house? Plus you meet lots of women by advertising your business in a safe way (massage parlour!) WIN

Im 'Graham' thats the online writeup of it, it was in the Mail on Sunday Day and night suppliment
We put poker bots to the test... | This is Money

some more general stuff from another article

You'll never beat poker robots | This is Money

Impressive my friend. Impressive

I disagree, poker robots aren't all that impressive. Against players who consistently win against humans they've been shown to be pretty bad. All it takes is for someone to realise they're playing against a machine.

Once the realisation that an opponent is a bot is made it's a matter of finding the patterns. The vast majority of the bots will play percentages and NOTHING else, it will bet certain amounts based on the odds of winning etc. With this in mind a person can learn to read a bot perfectly 100% of the time because it has no random factor. Even the bots that do have been proven not random, programming can only create pseudo random unless they use some sort of environmental noise function as part of the algorithm (like wind).

Image of random bitmap generated by normal program: http://www.boallen.com/assets/images...p_computer.png

Image of random bitmap generated with true random use of environmental noise: http://www.boallen.com/assets/images...itmap_true.png

Implementing true random into a bot is pretty difficult and due to the time sensitive nature of turns it's almost impossible without extreme processing power.

A player can milk a bot entirely dry by reading him consistently. Good players don't lose to bots, bad players do. The people who make their livings playing poker don't have much trouble with them.

Bots do however turn a profit despite losses such as this because there are far more bad players than there are good players.

Used to play a bit once upon a time, figured I could make something of it, turns out I'm not quite good enough, others have proven the bots to be worthless against good players though.

I play poker already I consider myself to be good but not yet career worthy.

I've been told to deal cocaine so many times

thanks for the blog link I'll check it out