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Covers Username: EastsideBangers

Sports: NFL

Age: 58

Location: Delran, New Jersey

Background: EastsideBangers spent his youth surrounded by the lure of sports and was intrigued at the reaction his father displayed whenever Jimmy The Greek would show up on the NFL Today to make selections on each weeks games. Through years of trial and error, trying to find a system that would prove successful, EastsideBangers would experience both the highs and lows that comes with this journey. With over 35 years experience looking for different angles and strategies to exploit, he has settled on what he has found to work well for him. A combination of minimizing risk by selecting fewer games to really focus on teams that are in favorable situations as well finding lines that can be exploited. There is an ebb and flow to each and every team during the course of said season, EastsideBangers likes to take advantage of these opportunities.

Since joining the Covers community, Eastside has had much success in the NFL forum, consistently posting winning season after winning season. Eastside is excited to be joining a collection of Covers finest who have a proven track record of success and who are willing to share what they have learned with the Covers community.

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Covers Username: AJMay

Sport: NHL

Age: 30

Location: Somerset, NJ

Background: AJMay has been successful in the past playing purely motivational and scheduling angles on underdogs, but soon realized he was leaving a lot on the table until he discovered the world of advanced statistics. Advanced stats will tell you when a team has been playing well despite losing a few games in a row, or a team has been playing poorly despite winning a few games in a row. This method will also let you know when a bad or mediocre team has started to figure it out and are now playing solid hockey. Similarly, good teams that will consistently attract most bets may not be playing well enough to justify the line.

These are great opportunities for betting against the public favorites and taking the value. There are also advanced stats for goalies which will allow you to approximate a goalie’s expected performance. When these statistical angles align with motivational and scheduling angles, a 10-unit play is warranted. When AJMay bets on big favorites, he’ll play them in regulation or parlay them to bring down the juice. Around -140 (1.71 decimal odds) is usually the upper limit for what he’ll pay. There is an extreme amount of variance in the NHL and you don't want to be on the wrong side of it with a -250 moneyline bet. You can roughly think of the way he handicaps games as: Total edge = Statistical edge + Motivational edge + Line value.

AJMay is excited for the opportunity to provide the Covers Experts community with what he’s learned over the years in his picks, write-ups and more importantly, make us all some money.

Covers Username: TRAIN69

Sport: NCAAF

Age: 42

Location: St. Louis, MO

Background: TRAIN69 has been gambling on all sports since age 16, starting with the Super Bowl and NCAA tourney action. He has bet on just about everything at one point or another.....from all American sporting events to NCAA tourney brackets, horse races, tennis & soccer. College football is the game he loves the most and thus the game he knows the most. His style has evolved over the years, from betting the board and tons of parlays to being much more selective in picking spots. That doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy a good parlay, as his favorite bet is still the underdog ML parlay (UDMLP) - one his follower in the Covers Forum always look out for. He has seen many people get too serious and let gambling drain them emotionally and financially, which is why he refuses to only straight bet. Yes, money management is the key to gambling longevity, but he doesn't let that be his sole guide. He likes the challenge of winning a parlay, and after all....if you don't think you can hit 3/3,4/4 or 6/6, how confident can you be in each pick individually?

TRAIN69 does look at matchups and other capping angles (weather, location, lookahead/letdown spot, etc), but he's found that the Vegas linemakers are very good at what they do and rarely make a "mistake". He took nearly a year off between 2013/14 as life was pulling his attention elsewhere and his college football bets suffered due to lack of time to watch games and keep up. That definitely helped his approach, as now he likes to look at a game 360 degrees and focus less on one aspect (again, most things are already baked into a line). If you've ever read one of his weekly threads, you know that keeping it fun is serious business for TRAIN69.

Covers Username: Cappologist

Sport: NCAAB

Age: 34

Location: Long Island, NY

Background: Cappologist has posted his picks in the Covers College Basketball forum for 6 years, but he’s been handicapping college basketball exclusively for over 11 years. He considers NCAABto be by far the most exploitable sport due to so many teams and unique matchups.

This collegiate basketball specialist has been steadily successful to the tune of +100 games won vs lost ATS across all his picks posted in the forum, yet he realizes nothing is guaranteed in the world of sports betting and prepares year around with that in mind. During the season, he takes notes on each slate of games daily and in the offseason, he performs a full season review and adjusts his strategies accordingly. With regards to his personal betting unit system, he highly values every bet he makes, so for that reason he is primarily a flat better who uses a standard 1 unit bet for all picks. Adapting to the $100 betting unit and 1-to-10 unit betting system utilized on Covers Experts, his personal 1-unit bet is equivalent to a 7 unit bet under the Forum Legends brand. When he feels strongly about a pick, he personally doubles down with 2 units – this is the equivalent to a 10-unit bet under the Forum Legends brand. These ‘double down’ plays are typically under 10% of his total volume of picks, but they have been extremely successful in the past going 54-28-1 ATS, 66%.

Cappologist separates himself from other NCAAB handicappers due to his willingness to work hard and stay up-to-date with an always evolving sports betting market and sport/league on a full-time basis. Rest assured he’ll be in the trenches grinding every day to deliver the very best results for clients – in the end it’s all about winning and that’s what he does best.