Who's the brightest person on the forum?

I mean bright in a gambling knowledge/awareness sense of course.

And to preempt the predictable, no he is not my bum buddy.

I suppose it must be me. I'm a genius.

sorry dont understand the question

kennicky. (NAZ)

That boy went down in ***FLAMES***

Avocado
The question is who is, not who is not .
You've got one of the nicer chatnames though, if that's any consolation.

compound
no moves
u25k

compound and Lori are two I often enjoy reading their views

Many, many extremely bright contributors have moved on/been banned, of the ones that remain i look out for Lori, the magician, contrarian, the investor and pumpkinslayer.

also FatalStatistics and the previously mentioned compound magic. Sorry to any i've missed out, it wont be many though [;)]

magician, bayes, aye robot and kenilworth are all caked imo.




anybody spot the odd one out?

Is it kenilworth as he's the only one named after an English town?

Is it Kenilworth because if you scored each of the other names in scrabble and deducted 5 it would equal  the number of letters in thier name ?


( mad but true )

Fck me.
How did you come up with that one ?
Off the wall.

aye robot -- couldnt remember his name .
very intel that man [>o]

I imagine that Feck looks at this thread, every time a new post is added, in the hope that his name is mentioned.

Not only Feck I would imagine.

ME .

And not even a question mark.
Now that's confidence.

I vote for Feck.  He is, after all, the only person on the entire forum who understands how an online betting exchange should be operated.

I would go for Feck, but there have been one or two
others who's names I can't recall. Aye robot for his
realistic take on the PC. Dave Edwards is a good, sensible
oster, Tobermory very polite. Don't ask me who is least
favoured by me, please !!

FINE AS FROG HAIR (not a sycophantic vote!), SHAPESHIFTER, askari1, and Banks, of those not mentioned so far.

Clydebank29 a shocking omission so far

CGULL, (one of the better ones)

brainsurg, the answer is brainsurg

Thank you Ken,

Posters I pay attention to generally are Ken & Betfairy. Further to this Aye Robot makes very good posts, Investor I like too.

I would have to admit to not reading most threads if the title doesn't interest me, so there may be a lot of good posts that I never get to see.

i suspect many on here are genuinely intelligent, however i find aye robot is also very articulate and his( or her ) posts are therefore very interesting to read.

Whatever happened to Bot ??

I miss Motoko Kusanagi.

The thing I've noticed over the years is that there are some very bright people in a particular field eg Gambling who because they are expert in their chosen field have their views on other topics elevated to the same status but when they are out of their comfort zone they are as thick as the rest of us.  And by us I mean the rest of you.....not me obviously.

Ron Pillock Joined: 11 Nov 09
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The thing I've noticed over the years is

Ron, how can you say that when you have only been
on this forum for less than a year ?

IQ 131

The experts say I'm gifted

I'm a member of NEMSA.

Betfairy it is then folks.

The Magician is bright i guess.. afterall he won the scoop 6

Ron, how can you say that when you have only been
on this forum for less than a year ?

and many years more under another name.

..and what name was that, may I ask ?

That will be Pon Rillock, Ken.

I'd say with Lori or kenilworth. Special mention to Ken Masters, can't be that funny without some sort of intelligence.

Cool eddy always seems to win on horsey forum

Lightbulbs Fan Club is the brightest on this forum imo

The guy collecting the commission.

NEMSA .... near to NEMESIS;  close to the edge..

Sorry BETFAIRY; I've forgotten your name.

Nevertheless you appear as one of the more intelligent members.

smarts can be applied to gambling in many ways.

mathematical/statistical skills - I would propose:

Zola's Back Heel
The Investor
Bayes


"street smarts" - cool eddy; BJG & norn iron on the Racing forum.

Maybe in fact the whole question is an oxymoron ?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Brightness as in intelligence does not necessarily equate to being a good punter.

I am not the sharpest tool but I do know that mathematically the probability of each horses
chance in a race can be calculated with enough accuracy to gain a decent edge. After that, maths comes to the
fore again in how you bet and how you manage a bank.

E.G. Reading the forum on here and formites tell how they had X pounds on a horse at X odds and they won
or lost X amount. Doing some quick and easy calculations in excel I can improve there return enough to
cover commission costs on 90% of occasions without getting better odds.

Another point raised is value. Value for a position punter is totally different to value for a trader.
A traders value is in timing, volatility and rapid turnover whereas value to a position taker is in probability. I would go as far to say that a position punter would not make a good trader.

There are a few on here who have the gift of putting pen to paper, aye robot comes to mind with common sense
articles and strategies.

There are those with a maths bent like Lori who have helped with intelligence on things like "Kelly Criterion"  and many others I admire for there work ethic or helpful nature.

We were all newbies at  the start , and if we can help put those new to the game get on the right track
without  scorn or derision all to the good. Some can't be helped as they know it all and think if they can't do it
no one else can.

Most of what I know came from ideas from others, a lot of study, a lot of early losses and much testing.


This game can be won and is won by a select few.

And of course everybody wins on the forum.

Compound
Good post.
I would just change the last sentence to read ""--- a very select few. "