Madjacks 3rd anniversary, May 10. Excuse the format. Gonna do some serious rambling here
About 6 years ago I got my first computer and found the internet. I started out on aol as a rookie to all this. It didn?t take me long to find what I was looking for. I was looking for sports gambling information. Within a few months I must have had 150 people that I knew well and exchanged emails with. I used to frequent a stocks chatroom and a gambling chatroom on aol. I became addicted to the internet. And those were the days when you had limited time on aol. I forget how many minutes were alloted but every month I went WAY over the limit. Also, because I am in a rural area I had to dial up long distance to get online. It used to cost me about 1200 a month to play this shit. It was fun though
No way I?m going to remember all the names and sorry if you?re missed but I?m sitting here whipping this up as I go. Just typing off the top of my head.
A few guys that I got to know real well on AOL?..one was keith (most of you know him). He used to post here regularly and even ran a contest for us last year for baseball. He?s one of the few I met in person. We went to a ravens game 2 years ago. Had a great time drinking pitchers of beer at hooters before the game and continued the drinking all night long. I think I might still be feeling that hangover
love ya, keith. I hope all is well with you and yours.
Another good guy was paul from pittsburgh. He?s another I met in person. I went to pitt and played golf with paul at his club. We had a nice sum bet on the round and we tied. I think we both shot 87. ugh! I met paul at his business (he?s an undertaker) and before we went to the club I had to go with him so he could move a body. Geez!
keep in touch, paul
Another guy I?ll mention is the shrink. This was before ken had a website but he was touting his picks on the AOL post your picks forum. He had an incredible amount of people that were getting his plays (paying for them) and they were the happiest bunch around. So, I signed up too. The only service I ever paid for. I signed up for his college hoops season that year. I think I paid him 200 bucks and he went on the most unbelievable streak I?ve ever seen. I was betting 300 a game and in 6 weeks I won over 18,000. Unbelievable, ken! Those were the days. Then baseball season came, I signed up for that and gave most of the 18K back. That was the end of services for me. No more, ever! I still keep contact with ken from time to time and just want him to know that the streak he had in hoops was one of the most memorable experiences I ever had betting sports. I?ll never forget it.
I also have good memories of unholycow, tom from picks to click, eddie, bpdrama, wild bill, swami, novak, jngmd, toofat4you and some others whose names I can?t recall right now. Those were the days!
Then, one day, I got banned from AOL. I got banned for posting about a trip I was trying to get together for superbowl Sunday in vegas. I was lost, man! I lost all my bookmarks, my email addresses, you name it. I was lost out here. All the info I got at the time was strictly found on aol. I had no idea of the info that could be found on THE REAL internet, but I was a rookie, and I was lost.
It took a little while but I started to learn my way around out here. I still missed the gambling chatroom we all visited every night on aol and couldn?t find one out here so I had to figure out a way to get one. I found one at xoom and started madjacks on xoom?s free web hosting plan. I started a gambling website. It was my hobby. It was fun. It took forever to learn some of the stuff I was doing but I loved every minute. I kept adding to that site. Started posting my picks daily with a little write up and watched the hits come in. I think I was getting about 50 hits a day and 40 were mine. Lmao! Then I started a baseball contest. I called haden at wsex and asked if he would put up $100 for a one week contest. HE WENT FOR IT! YES!! So, I told the people at wagertalk about my contest and got about 40 people to play. I was one happy guy. The hits gradually started coming. After a few months I was getting around 200 hits a day. I remember the first time I hit 300 and then the time I got 500. I was one proud mutha
To be continued??
About 6 years ago I got my first computer and found the internet. I started out on aol as a rookie to all this. It didn?t take me long to find what I was looking for. I was looking for sports gambling information. Within a few months I must have had 150 people that I knew well and exchanged emails with. I used to frequent a stocks chatroom and a gambling chatroom on aol. I became addicted to the internet. And those were the days when you had limited time on aol. I forget how many minutes were alloted but every month I went WAY over the limit. Also, because I am in a rural area I had to dial up long distance to get online. It used to cost me about 1200 a month to play this shit. It was fun though
No way I?m going to remember all the names and sorry if you?re missed but I?m sitting here whipping this up as I go. Just typing off the top of my head.
A few guys that I got to know real well on AOL?..one was keith (most of you know him). He used to post here regularly and even ran a contest for us last year for baseball. He?s one of the few I met in person. We went to a ravens game 2 years ago. Had a great time drinking pitchers of beer at hooters before the game and continued the drinking all night long. I think I might still be feeling that hangover
Another good guy was paul from pittsburgh. He?s another I met in person. I went to pitt and played golf with paul at his club. We had a nice sum bet on the round and we tied. I think we both shot 87. ugh! I met paul at his business (he?s an undertaker) and before we went to the club I had to go with him so he could move a body. Geez!
Another guy I?ll mention is the shrink. This was before ken had a website but he was touting his picks on the AOL post your picks forum. He had an incredible amount of people that were getting his plays (paying for them) and they were the happiest bunch around. So, I signed up too. The only service I ever paid for. I signed up for his college hoops season that year. I think I paid him 200 bucks and he went on the most unbelievable streak I?ve ever seen. I was betting 300 a game and in 6 weeks I won over 18,000. Unbelievable, ken! Those were the days. Then baseball season came, I signed up for that and gave most of the 18K back. That was the end of services for me. No more, ever! I still keep contact with ken from time to time and just want him to know that the streak he had in hoops was one of the most memorable experiences I ever had betting sports. I?ll never forget it.
I also have good memories of unholycow, tom from picks to click, eddie, bpdrama, wild bill, swami, novak, jngmd, toofat4you and some others whose names I can?t recall right now. Those were the days!
Then, one day, I got banned from AOL. I got banned for posting about a trip I was trying to get together for superbowl Sunday in vegas. I was lost, man! I lost all my bookmarks, my email addresses, you name it. I was lost out here. All the info I got at the time was strictly found on aol. I had no idea of the info that could be found on THE REAL internet, but I was a rookie, and I was lost.
It took a little while but I started to learn my way around out here. I still missed the gambling chatroom we all visited every night on aol and couldn?t find one out here so I had to figure out a way to get one. I found one at xoom and started madjacks on xoom?s free web hosting plan. I started a gambling website. It was my hobby. It was fun. It took forever to learn some of the stuff I was doing but I loved every minute. I kept adding to that site. Started posting my picks daily with a little write up and watched the hits come in. I think I was getting about 50 hits a day and 40 were mine. Lmao! Then I started a baseball contest. I called haden at wsex and asked if he would put up $100 for a one week contest. HE WENT FOR IT! YES!! So, I told the people at wagertalk about my contest and got about 40 people to play. I was one happy guy. The hits gradually started coming. After a few months I was getting around 200 hits a day. I remember the first time I hit 300 and then the time I got 500. I was one proud mutha
To be continued??
