The Philly Godfather thread

[phillygodfather]

   





As I get off the plane after a five hour flight you would expect a man in his mid 40's to be exhausted but as I walk down the runway my heart starts beating just a little faster, the adreneline starts to send shockwaves throughout my body and the back of my brain starts to tingle as a euphoric feeling starts to overtake my senses.. Where am I do you ask, I am at the only airport in the world that has slot machines planted in front of every Marble that walks off the plane.. I have been flying out to this desert for 25 years and every time I land my juices start flowing and all the memories good and bad start going through my brain like a Human Gamblers High Light Film.. . I am in Las Vegas..





Before the Corporations took over Sin City my favorite sports book was the Stardust, the Hilton came in a close 2nd.. Most visitors come to Las vegas for the Casino games, the Hookers, the Boozing and Partying but I belong to a select group of gamblers known as The Animals.. Alot of other betting syndicates have called us Pigs, Greedy, One Way, Monsters, and even F##cking Sneaky Sons of Bitches but the one thing they all agreed on was that we are some of the sharpest and well organized gamblers they ever met.. Philly is in the house baby..



As I walk into the Casinos these days in Vegas most of the old familiar faces are gone.. Most of the old timers have been replaced with a new generation of young sharp college educated gamblers that swear on Algorithms , Sabermetrics and everything else that I can't ever spell right.. These new young gamblers have more access to every statistic that ever existed but for some reason they cant beat the Animals when it comes to betting on football or any other sport.. The connections my group has made over the years would make Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal jealous.. After the NBA betting scandal was exposed and the book was written (Gaming the Game) I decided to come out of the shadows as a favor to a child hood friend that used to work for me named Vegas Runner..



I can't lie it still hurts every time I drive by the Stardust and it's gone but thats how life goes... Last year While I was in town my buddy Vegas Runner convinced me to enter the Hilton Super Contest, he said why not it's not like you guys are a great big secret anymore.. He pumped me up by saying I was probably one of the top ten football gamblers he ever met and I should take a shot at the 300,000 dollar grand prize. I started laughing and said why not.. To make a long story short I video taped the whole process of signing up and by the end of Football Season I ended up with the 8th best overall record out of 517 entrees in the Hilton Super Football Contest





The entry fee is only $1,500 and I am expecting alot more Marbles this year to be entering so if you feel like you got the BALLS to compete against some of the Sharpest Gamblers in the world, "YOU NEED TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP".. Don't you think $100 bucks a week to brag to your buddy that you are going heads up with the Philly Godfather and 500 other Gamblers sounds like fun. Imagine all the smack you can talk on Twitter during football season.. My only advice to you has always been to bet wise and sharp and if you're none of those things bet against yourself.. Get Money Yo!

[phillygodfather]

[Beyond the Bets]

Did you not feel weird when that random guy started video taping you on your way to the window?

Nice of him to post it to Youtube for you, though.

[mount187]

Hey PFG, I have a legitimate question for you. If you ran a pick selling service, how would you track your record? I know you hate people using the term "units" as a way to compare apples to apples; that makes me wonder, would you just post tickets of every bet you made so people would have real dollar figure to compare, or would you tell people, "I'm betting $x on this game, judge for yourself what you want to bet"? Hypothetically speaking, how should an "honest" pick selling service track their plays on a daily basis.

[phillygodfather]

(06-18-2012 02:57 PM)mount187 Wrote:  Hey PFG, I have a legitimate question for you. If you ran a pick selling service, how would you track your record? I know you hate people using the term "units" as a way to compare apples to apples; that makes me wonder, would you just post tickets of every bet you made so people would have real dollar figure to compare, or would you tell people, "I'm betting $x on this game, judge for yourself what you want to bet"? Hypothetically speaking, how should an "honest" pick selling service track their plays on a daily basis.

I guess you could just tell them what you bet on the game this way the customer purchasing the pick knows exactly how much confidence you have in the bet.. I mean it really makes no sense selling picks for 20 bucks a shot if you only bet 50 bucks on the game.. Just be honest with people and the rest will fall in place..

[mount187]

Thanks for the response PFG. We report our stats on Twitter as "units", but the site lists the results as "If you were to flat bet $100 / game ..."; we also list the difference in our line vs the book's line in terms of %'s (10, 15, 20, etc), so people can get a gauge of how our numbers correlate. I know you always hammer people on units, so I was just curious how you would handle it. It seems to fit as a quick way to relate performance to people that insist on knowing, but I agree that the "100 unit SUPER BOMB PLAY OF THE MONTH BOOKIE BREAKER!" shenanigans doesn't make any sense if 100 units isn't an easily translatable number. Anyways, thanks for the response; I appreciate you taking the time to pass on some of your opinions after honing your craft all these years.

[Incarcerated Bob]

The same craft he used when he went 0-16 during a stretch a few months back..
Are you speaking about that craft Mr Irrelevant ?

PGF doesn't use Units because he was EXPOSED when he did (Hence the Pregame.com Scam Flop) also he uses made up characters to cover his ass when he gets hammered , kinda like his partner in scamming "Vegas Runner" did when he made up a fake capper named "Bookie Bill" LOL remember that Twitter fraud they pulled...
PGF knows what i'm talking about, anyway he doesn't use Units because he SUCKS at capping, end of story.

You can continue to blow this Philly clown, but i smell it all over him.
All talk no substance (Like most Philly wannabe tough guys)

http://forum.sbrforum.com/service-plays/...yo-p2.html

[phillygodfather]

Wahid Rahim is presently 3-0 as a Pro.. He is fighting July 7th at 3801 Market street in Philly.. Everyone is welcomed to stop by..

[phillygodfather]

    It's almost time for D.S.P baby..

[phillygodfather]

        With the Puppet Master Freddie Roach..

[phillygodfather]

(06-18-2012 08:39 PM)Incarcerated Bob Wrote:  The same craft he used when he went 0-16 during a stretch a few months back..
Are you speaking about that craft Mr Irrelevant ?

PGF doesn't use Units because he was EXPOSED when he did (Hence the Pregame.com Scam Flop) also he uses made up characters to cover his ass when he gets hammered , kinda like his partner in scamming "Vegas Runner" did when he made up a fake capper named "Bookie Bill" LOL remember that Twitter fraud they pulled...
PGF knows what i'm talking about, anyway he doesn't use Units because he SUCKS at capping, end of story.

You can continue to blow this Philly clown, but i smell it all over him.
All talk no substance (Like most Philly wannabe tough guys)

http://forum.sbrforum.com/service-plays/...yo-p2.html

For the 2 months I was at Pregame.. Get your facts straight little guy.. The results below are from SportsBook Review. They've been tracking Pregame handicapper records for roughly a year and a half now.

1 Greg Shaker 842-679 55.4% 171.0 $17,098
2 Goodfella 501-396 55.9% 68.8 $6,878
3 Mike Hook 791-713 52.6% 59.4 $5,935
4 Spartan 915-829 52.5% 48.5 $4,854
5 Joe Gavazzi 313-262 54.4% 42.0 $4,197
6 Dwayne Bryant 330-273 54.7% 27.2 $2,724
7 Andre Gomes 1169-1047 52.8% 26.0 $2,602
8 Bryan Leonard 132-109 54.8% 18.2 $1,820
9 Philly Godfather 131-119 52.4% 17.0 $1,703
10 Sac Lawson 246-228 51.9% 4.9 $488

11 Dan Bebe 93-87 51.7% (0.8) $(80)
12 Dave Essler 576-553 51.0% (6.1) $(611)
13 Tony George 312-292 51.7% (6.6) $(659)
14 Brent Brooks 51-58 46.8% (10.5) $(1,050)
15 Evan Altemus 363-362 50.1% (16.5) $(1,645)
16 Stephen Nover 164-159 50.8% (16.6) $(1,664)
17 Ben Burns 1044-873 54.5% (19.3) $(1,932)
18 Johnny Detroit 382-373 50.6% (27.7) $(2,774)
19 The King Maker 37-52 41.6% (40.3) $(4,030)
20 Larry Del Genio 721-682 51.4% (40.3) $(4,030)
21 Cincinnati Kid 28-45 38.4% (45.0) $(4,500)
22 Vegas Runner 702-660 51.5% (63.1) $(6,305)
23 Stan Sharpe 235-234 50.1% (70.2) $(7,016)
24 Marc Lawrence 384-373 50.7% (71.2) $(7,115)
25 Denver Money 280-304 47.9% (77.0) $(7,695)
26 Rocky Atkinson 335-343 49.4% (94.5) $(9,450)
27 Rob Crowne 155-175 47.0% (99.7) $(9,970)
28 King Creole 259-281 48.0% (109.3) $(10,928)
29 Marco D'Angelo 456-490 48.2% (119.4) $(11,943)
30 Gill Alexander 466-511 47.7% (138.7) $(13,865)
31 Larry Ness 731-713 50.6% (165.9) $(16,592)
32 JR ODonnell 471-484 49.3% (168.7) $(16,871)
33 Nick Parsons 763-762 50.0% (352.8) $(35,282)

[phillygodfather]

    Just a real good guy..    

[phillygodfather]

(06-18-2012 09:52 AM)phillygodfather Wrote:  As I get off the plane after a five hour flight you would expect a man in his mid 40's to be exhausted but as I walk down the runway my heart starts beating just a little faster, the adreneline starts to send shockwaves throughout my body and the back of my brain starts to tingle as a euphoric feeling starts to overtake my senses.. Where am I do you ask, I am at the only airport in the world that has slot machines planted in front of every Marble that walks off the plane.. I have been flying out to this desert for 25 years and every time I land my juices start flowing and all the memories good and bad start going through my brain like a Human Gamblers High Light Film.. . I am in Las Vegas..





Before the Corporations took over Sin City my favorite sports book was the Stardust, the Hilton came in a close 2nd.. Most visitors come to Las vegas for the Casino games, the Hookers, the Boozing and Partying but I belong to a select group of gamblers known as The Animals.. Alot of other betting syndicates have called us Pigs, Greedy, One Way, Monsters, and even F##cking Sneaky Sons of Bitches but the one thing they all agreed on was that we are some of the sharpest and well organized gamblers they ever met.. Philly is in the house baby..



As I walk into the Casinos these days in Vegas most of the old familiar faces are gone.. Most of the old timers have been replaced with a new generation of young sharp college educated gamblers that swear on Algorithms , Sabermetrics and everything else that I can't ever spell right.. These new young gamblers have more access to every statistic that ever existed but for some reason they cant beat the Animals when it comes to betting on football or any other sport.. The connections my group has made over the years would make Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal jealous.. After the NBA betting scandal was exposed and the book was written (Gaming the Game) I decided to come out of the shadows as a favor to a child hood friend that used to work for me named Vegas Runner..



I can't lie it still hurts every time I drive by the Stardust and it's gone but thats how life goes... Last year While I was in town my buddy Vegas Runner convinced me to enter the Hilton Super Contest, he said why not it's not like you guys are a great big secret anymore.. He pumped me up by saying I was probably one of the top ten football gamblers he ever met and I should take a shot at the 300,000 dollar grand prize. I started laughing and said why not.. To make a long story short I video taped the whole process of signing up and by the end of Football Season I ended up with the 8th best overall record out of 517 entrees in the Hilton Super Football Contest





The entry fee is only $1,500 and I am expecting alot more Marbles this year to be entering so if you feel like you got the BALLS to compete against some of the Sharpest Gamblers in the world, "YOU NEED TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP".. Don't you think $100 bucks a week to brag to your buddy that you are going heads up with the Philly Godfather and 500 other Gamblers sounds like fun. Imagine all the smack you can talk on Twitter during football season.. My only advice to you has always been to bet wise and sharp and if you're none of those things bet against yourself.. Get Money Yo!

The greatest Football Contest around..

[KnicksFan1221]

I think we need a PGF/Incarcerated Bob handicapping contest on this thread.

[phillygodfather]

MY fighter Wahid Rahim 3-0 sparring with Victor Vasquez 15-6..

[ChiefZilla]

FYI, pgf.. both those videos say they're "private" and can't be played.

[SkyBlues42]

That's odd. I watched it when it posted it a couple of days ago. Worked fine then.

[phillygodfather]

We decided to take the video down as soon as Isaac Suarez signed to fight Wahid Rahim July 7th in Philadelphia.. Video will be back up after the fight..

[phillygodfather]

Some cool Boxing Pics..                 Wahid's older Brother (Ex Olympian and Champ) Zayir Raheem helping us out..

[phillygodfather]

My pick for the Hall of Fame Game http://www.spreaker.com/user/phillygodfa..._fame_game