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Old 07-29-2005, 11:01 PM
beset7 beset7 is offline
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Default Employing (Using?) A Disabled Person to Pick Sports Bets

I am completely untroubled by the following idea but I've been told by those that I respect that it is suspect for a number of reasons I will articulate later once I receive some replies. Opinions:

I am a law student and currently support myself and family of four w/ a combination of scholarships, some light loans and about 30 hours a week of online poker. During exams, however, I work very little and focus mostly on studying. Since I'm nocturnal I'm at the law library during wierd hours (10pm to 6am).

To the point, there is a "special" person (I'm not sure his exact diagnosis but I'm think either autistic or some kind of extreme form of OCD w/ a personality disorder of some kind) who spends about 12 hours a day in the library pouring over the baseball encylopedia, reviewing detailed game logs, and filling a gigantic notebook full of notes, stats, lineups, etc for MLB.

My first thought is that I should check out how successfull he is at analysing matchup and employ him to assist me in finding baseball bets w/ good overlays.

I chat with him one day and though I have yet to confirm things (which I plan on doing by having him share his picks and evaluate pitching matchups for a while with no betting involved) I suspect he is quite talented at analysing baseball data; though communicating with him is difficult.

Now, assuming that I compensated him fairly, or tried to reach some kind of arrangement with any legal guardian he might have, do you see anything wrong with employing this guy as a handicapper (or more precisely, to assist me in handicapping as I don't expect him to understand/learn gambling concepts)?

Also, tell me if this wrong forum.
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