Announcement: The Upcoming NFL Season and My Wagering

This coming NFL season, I’ll be doing some things differently on my football betting activities.

Each week, I’ll post analysis and picks on as many games as best I can.  I’ve been doing this for 10+ years here at my website.  I plan to continue this tradition.

For the first time, I’m also entering the two premier NFL handicapping contests here in Las Vegas.  I’ve raised an investment bankroll, which is called the Las Vegas Betting Syndicate.  That’s “LVBS” for short.  Trust me, the “BS” part just turned out that way by accident.

And so, I’ve entered the Las Vegas Westgate SuperContest with seven (7) paid entries.  That’s the maximum allowed per person.  I’ll share those picks weekly here on my page.  However, all picks are public knowledge and are posted in advance by the Westgate.

The names of my 7 entries are easy to spot:

NOLANDALLA1LVBS

NOLANDALLA2LVBS

NOLANDALLA3LVBS

NOLANDALLA4LVBS

NOLANDALLA5LVBS

NOLANDALLA6LVBS

NOLANDALLA7LVBS

I kept the names simple.  It’s also easy to track with the numbers 1-7.

Note:  A pet peeve of mine is that entrants often do not use their real names.  I don’t think anonymity should be allowed.  If someone enters, they should put their name on the picks.  It’s that simple.

You can read the contest rules for the Westgate SuperContest here. Entries are allowed up through Saturday, Sept. 9th, I believe.  Each entry costs $1,000.  There is no take out or added fee.

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I also entered the Circa Survivor contest, with three entries.  The names are:

NOLANDALLA8LVBS

NOLANDALLA9LVBS

NOLANDALLA10LVBS  

The Circa offers a winner-take-all $8,000,000 prize. The rules are simple.  Pick one team each week just to win the game.  No pointspreads.  However, each team can be picked only once during the season.  This is a more complex contest than it sounds, strategy wise.

Incredibly, my friend Russ Rosenblum was one of the winners last season.  He diced up $5 million in prize money.  Here’s an admittedly poor-quality video of me with Russ as his celebration party last season.  WATCH HERE

Read the Circa survivor contest rules here. Each entry costs $1,000.  There is no take out or added fee.

Note: I probably should have entered the Circa Sports Million V, as well.  I’ll likely do this one next season.

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A website dedicated to survivor strategy asked me to write a weekly column for them, and I’m glad to share that.  I’ll be posting weekly write-ups at a new website called SurvivorSweat.com  Check it out.  My first article should be up in the next day or so.

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As for changes in the offseason, I’m no longer with the Canadian-based content and betting site, pointspreads.ca.  That operation was recently sold to the Toronto Star news organization, and they wanted to keep it an all-Canada team.  So, my three years with them came to a close.  It was a great experience.

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I’ll be betting real money on my own, as well.  I’ll share those wagers here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.  I created an account that will have lots of sports content, with political stuff, too — follow @DallaWriter

So, that’s my plan.

— weekly write-ups here at nolandalla.com

— 7 Westgate contest entries

— 3 Circa contest entries

— 1-2 columns weekly at SurvivorSweat.com

— podcast at Desert Diamond Sports (will announce more soon)

— tweets and Facebook posts (with picks and the occasional rant)

— videos (TBD)

The bottom line is this: I plan to do lots of handicapping and writing.

Thanks for reading and following along.

Comments are always welcome.