MikeRAS shares office setup and discusses sports betting market in popular X thread
"One of the best threads I have read in a while about sports gambling. We need more of this." -@AmbroseDaKing on X
If you don’t know who @MikeRAS is, we published a newsletter on his journey with RAS and pro betting back in 2022, it is worth a read.
He’s recently become more active on X, and on June 18th, past midnight on the East Coast, Mike shared his recent man cave/office improvements. The discussion evolved from desks, screens, and how to get an odds board on your TV, to kids and parenting, and then a deep dive on the history of the market and new challenges that modern bettors face.
The thread really resonated with Gambling X, 65k views, 40 comments, 9 reposts, 78 bookmarks, and 376 likes as of this writing. We often struggle choosing types of content that people want, but this one seems to have hit the mark.
Some highlights from the X thread:
First on the office set up. Lots of comments and questions, but the most common one was how he got a Vegas looking odds screen on to a TV.
Mike explained, “It's actually just a TV streaming service called http://liveodds.TV
that is $4.99 a month that you can send through a Roku or Fire Stick into a TV. It's not particularly useful for work purposes and more for fun and the visual.”
Mike talked about how one of his kids was very into sports betting and one was not. He talked about his hesitancy to allow his child to get into sports betting because the “tides were rising on all of us.” He was later questioned about this by a user on X, which led to an interesting discussion.
He brought up two unique situations with WNBA all star games. One in 2010, that Mike said, “This was like my Harlabob Lakers moment.” The other was in 2021, where suffice to say, Circa opened at a bad price. In both instances he and the team were betting under repeatedly. In 2010 the total moved down roughly 7-10 points, and in 2021 it moved down 53 points (no joke), illustrating how much more competitive the market has become.
Mike used to have the 2010 WNBA All-Star game box score displayed in his office:
We hope you enjoyed this quick summary. We encourage you to read the entire thread in detail through the links above.