Hello everyone!!
In the over 15ish months since I started this Substack you all have put TONS of faith in me and for that, I am forever grateful. Part of that social contract for me is that I need to be open and honest with you all always #Transparency so I believe I owe you all an explanation on what led to me taking a step away for a number of weeks and what you can expect from here on out!
-T
Why I left
About 6 weeks ago, I sent a short message that said I was stepping away.
First, thank you to everyone who reached out via DM, email, and text. I really do appreciate it. The outpouring of support was humbling.
I have a number of personal reasons for why I felt that was necessary and I ask for your understanding as there are some aspects of that I am not going to get into, but I wanted to talk through the main driver - this Substack pretty much took over my life.
When I started this Substack I honestly didn’t expect it to take off as it did. I got so excited that I candidly way overextended myself on what I could do as a single person. By the end of last year I was spending upwards of 50 hours a week writing the substack (that is on top of my normal family life and job) and that doesn’t even get into the time I spent talking to sources, working on my models and chatting on the Gamblers Paradise Discord.
As I am sure many of you can imagine, I was unable to do everything to a standard that I felt was appropriate and large portions suffered so I honestly really just hit a breaking point. Ultimately I decided I needed to step away to make sure the things that were most important to me were being prioritized appropriately.
I am in a wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better place now.
Why I came back
I love gambling and have said that from the get-go that my hope for this substack and the gamblers paradise discord has always been and remains - I wanted to build a place where people at all stages of their gambling life (people who are new, people betting $5/unit, people betting 1k/unit) can:
Feel comfortable
Enjoy sharing their thoughts and ideas
Get good quality picks for free
On top of that, the outpouring of support I mentioned before really made me realize how many people enjoy what we have built.
What to expect to see on Substack?
Given that I feel I have a better handle on things and a better view of what is reasonable for me to do, let’s lay out what I expect from a content perspective:
The substack is now 100% free
I have removed the option to pay and if you have been nice enough to help support in the past, please know that you will NOT be charged again
If you want to help support, please DM or email me and we can chat about how you can do that (Twitter tips work great!!)
I can’t say how much I love this place and I really hope you all have joined. It is an entirely free space for folks to share ideas/chat about gambling and I am so thrilled it was able to keep going while I stepped away.
I will still be on there and active and talking about all sports, but I will likely be on mostly early mornings, evenings, and weekends. That said, there are a ton of really great folks on there around the clock so come join the discussion!
ANY time I post on here, I post it on there as well so it is an easy way to see when I post.
I do run giveaways and contests1 from time to time so that is an added bonus.
Golf
Of all the content I produce, this gives me the most amount of flexibility so these will absolutely continue so they may come out on Monday (like last week), Tuesday, or Wednesday. I do reserve the right to miss some weeks if I have to, but I will try my best to have it weekly.
Football
I owe a season recap and will have that out at some point soon
I love the NFL draft and will likely have a newsletter around that time
I will likely have a futures newsletter (probably 1 post this time instead of 3) before the season starts; this was very profitable for us last year.
Anything more than that, I can’t really commit to at this time. I am not sure if I will do the weekly newsletter anymore as it was taking too much time.
NBA
I apologize, but this is being retired. I do not have the bandwidth to do this consistently and it is not fair to you all for me to randomly do it. I may post playoff picks in the discord once we get there, but that almost certainly won’t be every day and is at best 50-50 at this point.
Horse racing
We still have some time until the Debry so still evaluating the feasibility of this
Baseball / Cricket / Soccer / college sports / F1 / politics / tennis
Much of these I have not covered on the Substack. For the items I have done on Substack, unfortunately, this is largely going to be a thing of the past. Going forward:
I will absolutely share my thoughts on the GP Discord on these things (can’t wait for the IPL to come back!)
There are some PHENOMENAL people on the GP Discord who share their picks. I won’t name and jinx anyone, but we have some great folks who have been sharing their views on college sports and tennis and we might even have someone talking KBO (fingers crossed he does it for us!)
Guest posts
I am absolutely still open to these
I hope this helps explain what is going on and, as always, you can always DM me on Twitter or Discord, or just reply to this email with any questions!
We will have an NCAA Tournament Challenge with $$ prizes.