Breaking the Unbreakable Bank

Sportsbook gambling it destroys careers, families, people, and lives. But it's also one of the biggest thrills in life, riding the high, spending all day Saturday watching college football placing parleys sweating it out trying to break the bank. But what happens when the bank breaks you. When you wake up Sunday morning and say "what have I done." Most gamblers if not all get right back up, watch all the NFL reports and try to break even, only to fall into a deeper abyss. The rush, the promise of never to bet again only to come right back the following week and doing it all over again.
There are those that look at gamblers that look at gamblers with a bad eye, but really we all gamble in life. From the foods we eat to the stock market we play. I do not condone sports betting but it is here and it will stay in our society forever. The sport leagues say they are against sportsbook betting, but then why release a last minute injury report to the media and the fans. Why does the media release up to the minute weather report on all the games. These observations are very important to the betting public, they offset the way the betting line changes, an impact injury can move a line dramatically. We have trends that show how many teams fare in certain conditions. All this information is out there for us to gather to make our choices to break the bank, even if the leagues don't want it to happen, but they make it happen, and football whether pro or college is one of the most bet on sports in the United States. This has led to a bad effect in college sports from student athletes point shaving as was the case at Toledo University. In the fall of 2004 the FBI began investigating Toledo's athletics department. Their findings discovered that eight players took part in an elaborate point shaving scheme in both basketball and football programs, all eight players were charged. That is the domino effect of sport betting were student athletics receive scholarships and not cash. The case in Toledo is just an example, there are more cases that we know off, and others that we may never know. As for me, yeah, i have dipped into the sports betting scene, but always with a limit. Know what you can spend but do not bet what you don't have.
Sports betting will never come to an end, and yes football is not the only sport suffering from fixed games. The NBA has had a share of problems recently. How can we forget the Tim Donaghy fiasco. There we learned that its not only the players that throw games but referees can be bought as well especially when they run up a large debt, where making a couple of calls the other way can take you out of debt.
But the one that really loses is the actual gambler. Even when he wins a couple of thousands, Vegas will always make a million times that amount. No matter how good you think you are at handicapping games, you will never be able to break a bank that is unbreakable.