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[00:02] wanted to come on here and be a little bit authentic and share with you guys my story and how I became the person I am today, making over six figures from other strategies that I use. I didn't really know how to start it off, but I
[00:15] guess I'll kind of just tell you guys about where I was back in the day when I was a kid. I mean, my dad, he was an entrepreneur himself. He owned his own Imports. Huge car guy. He made the import racing scene what it is, what it
[00:28] was when it was super big. JDM cards, all of these things. He's a great man, super super talented, super smart guy. I looked up to him my whole life when he talking about entrepreneurship. He taught me a lot of the things I need to
[00:40] know today and that I do know today. And so, a big reason for my success is positive role model and to always just have someone, I guess, just teach me what it means to be a man and to make our last name mean something more than
[00:53] just a word. So, growing up, my dad was super super work oriented. wasn't really around too much because he was working and it was understandably so. We struggled a little bit when I was a kid. His business kind of struggled a bit as
[01:06] it kind of died down. We ended up losing a lot of things like our house, our car and we ended up being homeless for maybe 8 to 10 months, no more than a year. We ended up staying with a family friend that we met from church. They were super
[01:19] loving, super welcoming, super caring, and obviously I was a kid, so I didn't time. But the bottom line is is we were home. I never had to worry about it because my parents always worked so hard in making sure that we were provided
[01:32] Anything that we wanted, we got, you know, we we were never hungry. And that's why I I always look up to my parents and I hold them to such a high respect because of how they were able to successfully give me and my younger
[01:46] sister the life that we deserved growing up. But anyway, moving forward, my dad got back on his feet, started working more, got a job, and we ended up moving into a smaller little town home. Ever since then, I've always been, I guess,
[01:59] trying to figure out how to make money. Even when I was a kid, I remember being in middle school time and my first ever business was buying and reselling Fortnite accounts. I would buy a bunch of accounts that had rare skins for
[02:12] super cheap in bulk, and then I would resell them. I had my own Discord. I mean, I was always looking for new ways to make money even as a kid. That was Like, I would sell snacks. I remember in middle school as well. I would do a lot
[02:25] of things and it was just always having that hustler mindset that I still have today that I very much get from my dad. And I love it. I mean, that's probably I'm super successful is having that mindset of just hustling and and the
[02:39] hunger to provide and to be successful and to have an income for myself. Then it kind of transitioned into more, I guess, realworld business ideas. In high school, I did a lot of things. I I think the first ever thing I did in high
[02:53] school was a clothing brand. It was called Walk with Love. I I still have amount of money from it. I think that's when I touched my first ever $1,000 in but it was my first $1,000. I thought it was, you know, thought it was great. I
[03:08] probably only had maybe like 10 buyers that didn't know me or I didn't know who running that clothing brand to maybe about5 to $6,000 in pure profit off of one drop. And that was my only drop ever because I ended up getting scammed for I
[03:24] think $10,000. So all of my profits plus a little bit more of my savings because didn't know anything at the time and I really thought I was super independent. thought I knew what was best for me and I ended up getting scammed for 10 grand.
[03:38] Um, so that clothing brand got shut down. And then fast forward to, I guess, junior, senior year of high school. That's when I really became hungry because not only did everything that I've ever worked hard for just
[03:51] I'm also now in debt and I have to figure out a way to make this money back. I didn't have a job at the time. I think I got my first job the summer of junior year where I worked at a boba shop. It was at that moment when I was
[04:03] like cleaning the dishes and I had to go clean the scrub the toilets. I was like, "Yeah, I I can never work for somebody else. I could never do this. $15 an hour." Because 15, like $15 an hour, you're worth way more than that. I
[04:15] when I was hungrier than ever. And so, I started picking up new skills. I became a barber. I started learning how to cut hair because a lot of my friends like, "Oh, I need haircuts." This was just after co, too. So, it was a pretty good
[04:27] to cut hair. I became pretty good. I started cutting in my garage for free. just like, "Yeah, you can pay me whatever you think I deserve." And I I lot more about business through being a
[04:40] barber. And after this simultaneously, I'm always working on new things. I'm models to to make an extra dollar. And as I kept on increasing my skill set like content creation, right? It taught me this is what introduced me to content
[04:54] creation. Then senior year of high school, I remember so vividly one of my friends named Charles. Charles Tan, he he goes to USC right now. Uh, shout out Charles if you're watching this, but he told me to download prize picks. We were
[05:07] school and he was like, "Yo, you got to hop on sports betting." Um, I remember he sat right behind me and and he he was just showing me him making a ton of parlays. And I had no idea what it was at the time, but at the time I was like,
[05:20] I love the NBA. That's the only thing I watch. I love Steph Curry. Let's make some money. Let's do it." So that winter break, me, Charles, and a bunch of our other friends hopped on a Discord call. We made our own server for sports
[05:33] betting. Just us, nobody else. And we would research. We would spend hours in that call. Like, I'm talking 5 to 6 hours a day during winter break in high would literally just sit in voice chat and talk about parlays, who's going to
[05:46] cash what, who's going over, who's going under. And I think I have some pictures of some of my old parlays that were so bad. Like, I'm talking three legs on price picks before the payout was 6x. It was 5x before if you guys didn't know
[05:58] play. We would play six leg parlays, fourleg parlays, everything that you could think of. The definition of a degenerate sports better was what we were. And not only was this forming an addiction, but it also put me into a lot
[06:13] come. Because my mindset at the time was, all right, I'm going to throw 20 25 bucks here and there because I was making a good amount of money from cutting hair. I think maybe I was about $300 to $5,000 a month. And in high
[06:25] school, that's a lot of money. Okay, for for the average high schooler, that's a lot more than 99% of other high schoolers are making. So, I was under to burn through and I could just hit one parlay to make it all up. Lose $25 here.
[06:39] All it takes is one sixlegg parlay out of 24 or whatever to become profitable. And that was my mindset. It's terrible now that I think about it, but at the time it was fun. That's when I had the most fun. I I I guess sports betting
[06:52] because not only was I doing it with my friends, I really don't get to talk to them much anymore, but at the time those guys, we were spending so long together talking about parlays and oh my god, it was so fun. But that was the start of my
[07:07] sports betting journey. Now transition, we do this for about the rest of the two school and we graduate. We all go our separate ways. But in college now, I'm still sports betting. Like I have this chronic addiction of placing parlays.
[07:21] don't know how often you guys like to sports bet, but I'm doing this multiple taking up hours of my day. I'm not doing homework. I'm not studying. You know what I'm doing? I'm sports betting. I'm on Outlier. I'm on Betting Pro. I'm on
[07:34] all of these apps researching statistics, players, team, baseball, these things. All I knew was basketball at the time. But as I kept on moving forward, right, this addiction just kept on forming. And next thing you know, all
[07:47] of the money that I made from cutting hair, I I I just don't have any in my really mind it because fast forward to, you know, college, first couple making even more than I was in high school. I think I made like 300 400 a
[08:01] day cutting hair. And it's a lot of money, I will admit. Um, but keep in mind all of that stuff. But how much is $300? I don't even know how much 300 times. Okay. No, I wasn't making $300 a day. I was probably making around like
[08:13] college. So maybe about like I don't know the math, whatever that is, but in high school. And it just kept on funding my gambling addiction. Now, at something fun. Now, my roommates, they were always supportive of what I was
[08:26] doing. They let me cut hair inside our little small dorm. And I was I was just using all of that money, spending it, partying, alcohol, right? It's my first drinks. I'm partying every single day. I
[08:38] clothes. I'm going out to eat every single day when I had free dining hall food, which I regret till this day. Um, but I was just blowing all of my money, strategy. I didn't even know what profitable sports betting was. I really
[08:51] just thought I was like, all I need is a couple of slips to hit and I will be good, right? Fast. But a little later, now I'm still obviously I still want to turn this into a business because my mentality was I'm I'm doing something
[09:03] that I love. I have so much genuine fun doing this. I have so much enjoyment from making parlays from sports betting. The dopamine that I get is incomparable done. I don't want to cut hair anymore. I don't want to do a clothing brand
[09:16] I've always wanted to be a content creator. I've always wanted to make content. So, what better idea than to make content about sports betting. And at the time, I was watching all of these guys on YouTube on Tik Tok. Uh, Secure
[09:28] Ties Tyson was a huge sports betting Tik Tocker at the time. You know, all of inspired me to to start making content. So what I did was I had my own discord or no actually how this actually went down super funny story till this day is
[09:42] I joined a bunch of premium discords. You guys all are probably in my discord or or if not I used to join and pay for a subscription for other people's pics and I was in maybe five or six different premium servers and one of them one
[09:55] today. That server was called confidential pics back in my first year of school. So that was what 2024 now. confidential picks. Why this was such a huge part in my journey was because that was a server that I was the most active
[10:09] smacked a lot a pretty good amount of time. And eventually I was decent enough at parlays where I was hitting I guess like my two legs on prize picks. I went on a little green streak. Like I was never really that good where I was
[10:22] money, but I was like hitting my parlays, right? So I actually applied to server and I ended up getting accepted. Now, I absolutely killed it as a capper. I was probably one of their best ones, highest hit rate percentage. But keep in
[10:37] mind, I had the highest hit rate, but I was still losing money somehow. It was like a mental thing. Like, I knew that I was cashing my parlays, but as I looked account, all of that stuff was gone. I kept on depositing, but I never
[10:49] withdrew. Now, there's so many reasons obviously like I didn't know how to anything about unit sizes. I didn't know anything about, you know, long-term so many different things as to why I wasn't profitable, but I was still
[11:02] hitting my parlays, but that's besides the point, right? I was doing really well and I got close to one of their admins named Aeros. His name is Kyle. And I started making content for that Discord so they could pay me a little
[11:14] thinking in my hustler mentality, not in my business mentality, but I I was hungry, right? So I I was making content for them. I ended up having four or five viral videos off the rip. And I'm talking like hundreds of thousands of
[11:27] views every single video for a Discord server that had 2,000 members, probably clicked for me. I'm seeing so much success very early talking about something that I love doing for someone else. What if I made content and started
[11:40] my own Discord and my own business so all of this traction and all of this attention can come to me? So that idea popped in my head, but only after I started seeing these viral videos and something in between me going viral and
[11:54] me starting my own business happen. That was another huge factor into my success today. Alex Monahan, the founder of OddsJam, the company that I now am sponsored by, I use every single day, and it's probably the greatest sports
[12:06] betting tool in the world. But Alex Monahan, he saw one of my videos, to me and he asked me to come make content for Odds Jam. And this is kind of where I was introduced to profitable sports betting because at the time I was
[12:19] do wrong. I was chasing my losses. I was rage betting. I wasn't managing my bankroll. I was using all of my bankroll in one day hoping to hit a parlay. I had market. It was just an addiction. It was chronic. I was losing so much money. And
[12:33] as soon as Alex reached out to me and started informing me about OddJam and that's when he started mentoring me. And that's when I started building and recognizing these different profitable systems that actually exist. Positive EV
[12:46] betting, arbitrage betting, the leading factor by far in my success today. really caught my attention because what's one thing that you're looking for as a man trying to make a ton of money, the highest reward with the least risk
[13:01] possible. So, when I heard arbitrage betting was a thing where you could bet risk-free profit no matter what happens, I was on it. I did hours of research every single day, not just with Monahan, not just with the Odds Jam guys, but on
[13:14] my own, looking at YouTube videos, right? Investing in my knowledge. I spent hours every single day studying what the different strategies were, how these strategies, what the best times of day were to use these strategies, right?
[13:27] I recognized that these statistics, the old way that I was sports betting had no positive aspect, had no positive return. The reason why Vegas has so much money, the reason why Vegas is a multi-billion dollar industry is because you're not
[13:41] designed to win, you're not meant to win gambling, you're not meant to win sports betting. And that's why these sports books, these industries are so rich is because they get you. It's psychology. Price picks their last five statistics.
[13:53] It's not to help you make money. It's to subconsciously make you think that those stats don't matter. Those stats do not matter at all. The only thing that I learned that matters sports betting to be profitable in this industry that
[14:07] everybody looks down upon because it's considered gambling is using an edge in the market. Same thing with trading. It's the exact same thing as trading arbitrage in crypto. They use arbitrage in real estate. Why is it any different
[14:20] because a lot of people are are fairly uneducated with I guess like the sports gambling is not good. I would never condone gambling. That's a lie. I love gambling. But still, I've come to the point where I would rather use these
[14:35] profitable strategies and not have as much fun versus having a lot more fun, understanding that I'm losing money long term. There's a reason why 97% of sports you don't most people are uneducated to these strategies that there's actual
[14:50] You guys have to keep in mind, too, I was very, very skeptical when Alex reached out to me because like everybody else, I had no idea what he was talking about. I was very very new to this whole space. I had so many doubts in my mind
[15:04] like am I really fit to make content about something that I don't know. Am I really fit to talk about something that I've never done before? And not only just on the content aspect of things, but the actual sports betting aspect of
[15:16] things. When I tried using these strategies, I messed up so much in the guys a break brief breakdown. Positive EV is a strategy where you're profiting long term, but there's also going to be times where you lose a ton of money in a
[15:29] strategy is basically where if you have a let's just say you have a coin and the coin is rigged. Instead of 50/50 to land on heads or tails, it's a 55% chance to going to bet tails every single time you'd be stupid not to. But that doesn't
[15:42] where I'm going with this? There's going to be a lot of times where you flip that and you're constantly losing money. But if you flip that coin enough in the long went through a very, very bad variant stretch owning my own Discord back in
[15:56] February of 2024. I lost maybe about $10,000 again, just straight red days. I think I profited maybe three or four times out of that entire month. And I was in shambles. I was losing a lot of subscribers. People were losing faith in
[16:09] strategy. And I just didn't think that it was working. I didn't have faith in the strategy. So, at this moment, I was doubting everything. doubting this industry, doubting this path, doubting OddJam, doubting the strategies that
[16:22] I've worked so hard to learn and to and to use and to change, but I ended up sticking through with it. I ended up playing past the variance and March to May was the best months of my life. I think that was the first time I've seen
[16:36] so much green in so long. And my journey kind of started out with positive EV, not so much arbitrage because I didn't really have I guess access to as many sports books at the time cuz I was still living in California in LA where I
[16:48] didn't have access to things like DraftKings and FanDuel. So I was using I started to see very very good profits consistently and I was like okay this is working. And then as everything was
[17:01] about $10,000 a month at this point. My dad, he gets a new job and that job changed the trajectory of my and my families for a very very long time because he moved to Michigan and that's across the entire country from
[17:15] there. The culture is very different especially for an Asian family. I mean LA versus Michigan. You can kind of put that put the puzzle pieces together why it would be different. But that is kind of when I started to explore other
[17:27] strategies as well because not only did that state or the areas around that state as well have so many opportunities with sports books as my family moved over to Michigan now I have a whole variety of things that I can do with
[17:41] strategies. Now I was introduced to arbitrage sports betting and arbitrage sports betting now this was the it factor as to what changed my life it was risk- free. So, learning these strategies, implementing these
[17:55] work. I did it by myself for a very long time. My Discord didn't know I was using arbitrage sports betting. I continued to post to my Discord with regular bets, doing arbitrage on the side, learning, learning, learning, learning. There were
[18:08] supposed to be risk- free. There's sometimes when I I had to learn how to websites. I had to learn every single sports book's UI so I could familiarize best time of day to find the lines, different markets to bet on. so many
[18:22] You guys don't understand. That's the stuff that you don't see on the camera. show you. That's the stuff the stat sheet does not show you, right? The hard that I made, the nights that I felt like giving up, the days that I didn't want
[18:35] to do it, but I still did it anyway. That's the stuff you guys don't see. That's the reason why I am where I'm at today. The stuff that you see on camera is only 20% of the work. 80% of the stuff that I did, you guys did not see.
[18:47] And that [\h__\h] was a [\h__\h] struggle, right? But I will say now that I am I that I'm very very profitable and I would consider myself one of the greatest sports bers to ever do these strategies, arbitrage sports betting, I
[19:01] sports betting in the I guess social media community. So after I was starting to kind of see a lot of different results with arbitrage betting, it started off pretty small, $4,000 a month. Gradually got it up to $8 $10,000
[19:16] a month. Then I started to see like 12 to $15,000 a month. And I'm like, I can do something with this. So what I did was I introduced it to my social media. I started making content about it. And not only did that [\h__\h] take off, but it
[19:28] brought me to helping other people use these strategies as well. Because if you remember, I am only a profitable sports better because Alex Monahan mentored me If I had questions, I asked him. He taught me everything he knew. Because
[19:40] before Troy Cooks, there was Alex Monahan. And now my goal was to build something for myself. Ever since I was little, I've always wanted to build a sustainable business for myself that I could be proud of. Not something where
[19:53] something where I'm, you know, I mean, yeah, clothing brand and cutting hair is cool, but I wanted to build a real business. I wanted to build something that. That guy's helping other people where I can feel good about it. That guy
[20:05] Troy Cooks, you've changed my life. You helped me make so much money. And now testimonials that I get, these messages that I get from my students, I've helped change so many lives and that's why I love doing what I do. And that's what I
[20:18] kind of discovered. It was never about the money. It was never about making money and living this lifestyle. I have always just inherently wanted to change where I get my real happiness from. And the way that I was able to do that was
[20:33] by helping people make more money. by helping people realize that there's more to sports betting than just the gambling [\h__\h] that society tells you that that's all sports betting is. There is a real profitable industry inside sports
[20:46] my mission is to get that knowledge out there because I'm tired of seeing sports books and Vegas destroy the lives of families because people have chronic gambling addictions. These dad or these these full-g grown men, grown men with
[21:02] been so much more, but they ruin the lives of themselves. They ruin the lives them because they can't stop gambling because they don't understand that there's actually a way to make money in this industry. So, I guess that's what
[21:16] help people, being able to change people's lives, and being able to spread information on how to become a better man. because that's what my goal was at version of myself. But yeah, guys, that is pretty much my whole story. I grew up
[21:30] pretty poor, homeless. But the great thing about life is that I always had the Lord on my side, and the Lord always had a plan for me and for my family. And look up to. My mom took care of the family. She held it down. I had a great
[21:43] death. And I think that's one of my biggest motivators as to why I do what I do today, because I had that port system for myself. So, I wanted to be able to people around the world, help them make more money, help them become a better
[21:58] person, and just help the lives of so many people around me. With arbitrage sports betting, with sports betting in general, I realize that there is so much more than just losing parlays and being addicted to the dopamine and losing and
[22:11] gambling. There's actual strategies to implement, actual ways that you can make money in this industry. Have fun with your friends. Watch these games. Build more connections. Sports betting is more than just money. Sports as an industry
[22:23] I've played basketball my whole life. I love basketball. Watching the games with family, there's so many bonding moments. There's so many moments that you can use. And I mean, yeah, that's that's pretty much my story. Um, I love you
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