Sports Handicapper Changes Sports Betting Landscape
This time last year, sports handicapper Dr. Bob Stohl was the preferred betting syndicate advisor in reference to college football picks and NFL picks. Unfortunately, Doctor Bob had a mediocre year at best for those who wager on football.
Simultaneously, Stevie Vincent a veteran football handicapping expert was turning the sports betting industry, both Vegas sportsbooks and online sportsbooks, upside down with his revolutionary forensic handicapping.
Vincent’s meteoric rise, among high rollers betting on sports, was not overnight. Ironically Vincent was successful at handicapping sports but hesitant to gamble for personal reasons. He did admit a “family member” had a major gambling problem but “not sports betting” so he was resistant to bet.
He was Executive Editor of the famed scorephone Tailgate Party, which in the pre-internet days was the choice for real-time sports betting information and free football gambling picks.
MVP Sportsbook had a program for would-be sports handicappers. Their model was to build and market a site for anyone who wanted to open a sports service. In return, parent company, the VO-Group would have exclusive rights to advertise their sportsbook and online casinos on such site.
Vincent reluctantly started his career as a professional sports handicapper via MVP Sportsbook, which was under the direction of online sportsbook pioneer Dalton Wagner.
Joe Duffy, now CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, took advantage of their marketing relationship with VO-Group when he was General Manager of Freescoreboard.com.
“We used their program as sort of an American Idol for sports handicappers.” MVP had about 300 handicappers in their program. According to Duffy, “About 98 percent of them were William Hung,” a reference to American Idol’s most infamous contestant. Continuing with his American Idol metaphor, “There was really only one Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.”
While other handicappers made sales, Vincent was the only tipster who got clients to continue to renew on a consistent basis. “The quality of his reports, both in winning and insight was truly second to none” Duffy asserts.
“We added three handicappers from the MVP program, but Vincent was the crown jewel,” said Duffy.
Despite the presence of elite handicappers and sports services the Animal, Leo Shafto, GodsPicks (now GodsTips), and the SuperLockLine, Vincent found a niche and had a renewal rate most touts only fantasize about.
Then an even bigger breakthrough happened.
Vincent used some of the basic ideas in the paper to fine tune his own handicapping techniques and developed the ground-breaking science of forensic handicapping. “It was a natural progression to what I was already doing,” says Vincent modestly.
Vincent, whose plays are released on BetOnSports360.com has become the “unmitigated frontline source of sports bets for the world’s biggest betting syndicates” according to wagering expert Cy McCormick.
Vincent claims several online sportsbooks have offered him significant sums of money to give them the plays before he releases to his clients. He declined. “They will have to purchase my plays and will have equal access as everyone else.”