So sports betting has been legal in DC for sometime
now. I was reluctant to sharing my bets
mainly out of fear of losing. But that’s
going to happen, the question is are you winning the majority of the time. I can tell you honestly that I wasn’t up
until my recent wager. Sometimes because
it was a close fight and the decisions didn’t go my way. Sometimes I simply didn’t do the research and
relied on recency bias. A lot of times I
bet the day of 3 or 5 dollars on one of my favorites. So I started writing this Saturday and didn’t
finish but I was going to go on and rant on by why I made my pick and how
everyone else were wrong about Kevin Holland and Charles Oliveira. I could go on about Kevin Holland’s 9 inch
reach advantage his youth advantage over inactive 41 year old Jacare. Or I
could talk about the Oliveira 7 fight win streak and all being finishes and
Tony’s non-existent edge on grappling since Oliveira has 19 finishes via
submission one those being rare in MMA calf slicer. The narrative that I thought would play out
happened. I felt strong enough to put a
bet on it and write about it. Strong
enough to where I would I tell Vicki we need to mortgage the house on it. I
would never do that but sometimes I feel things are just locks. Writing this blog has helped me recognize
that these “locks” or “I told you so” aren’t going to come every card. I felt
very strongly about this card. So I
picked Holland and Oliveira. It worked
