Victor King, founder of KING CREOLE SPORTS, has been picking winners in professional and collegiate sports for more than twenty years. He started as a professional handicapper in 1990, and joined Marc Lawrence’s PLAYBOOK staff in 2000.

With four full-timers on staff in four different geographical regions of the country, we’re privy to a lot of local and “inside” information. We are also firm believers in technical handicapping and the usage of the Playbook DATABASES in the various different sports has contributed greatly to our overall success. Victor is the creator and author of the Playbook Ultimate O/U ANNUAL and the weekly NFL “Totals TIPSHEET”….. the definitive guides for NFL OVER / UNDER wagering.  The Playbook TOTALS TIPSHEET is the only publication of its kind in the country that is devoted exclusively to NFL Over / Under wagering. Victor is also a contributing writer for all of the Marc Lawrence’s Playbook publications. Victor is also a regular on Marc Lawrence’s weekly radio show “Against the Spread”.

Handicapping Style:
I handicap from a technical style, with particular emphasis on playing SITUATIONAL Systems from our Playbook database. We all are in agreement that sports are much like life in that it tends to REPEAT itself. College and Pro teams in similar situations will repeat the SU and ATS results that occurred in the past. That’s what makes our Playbook databases in football and basketball so crucial and important. With over 20 years of game results at our fingertips, the data that’s available will usually reward the hard-working handicapper with more winners than losers. With an emphasis on about 60-65% Over / Unders… and 30-35% Side Plays.

Handicapping History:
My fascination with sports and betting begins at an early age. As a youngster, I played in simulated baseball leagues with my older brother Kurt in our family’s basement in Cleveland, Ohio. We used to play Strat-o-Matic baseball and APPA baseball simulation leagues. We were fascinated how players in a fantasy league would mirror the actual statistics that they compiled in real time. That’s where the interest in sports data and statistics first got my attention.

From there, I moved into the area of ‘actual’ sporting events in Junior High School. That is, if you can call table-top ‘paper football’ an actual sporting event! I created a league during our lunchtime period that consisted of 11 of my friends who like playing table-top football. You probably know what I’m talking about. I was the Commissioner of the ‘MJHFL’ for 3 years (Mayfield Junior High Football League). A league newsletter was created, with commentary and projected point spreads. So this was also my first real taste of combining sports, betting, and journalism all into one.

I ‘graduated’ into the area of parlay cards. A junior or senior would have a bunch of parlay cards and he would hand them out to interested underclassmen who might have a hankering for making a bet or two. Even though I realized that these parlay cards never paid off at ‘true’ or justifiable odds, I was nevertheless hooked on them. After a year, I then moved up into the area that really paid off… and that was taking over the reins as the ‘man’, or the guy that was booking all these bets instead of making them.

Handicapping Results: (all documented with the Sports Monitor of Oklahoma):

In 2005, the combined record of King Creole and Dawg Pound Hotline in College Football REGULAR SEASON plays was 73-55 (57% ATS).  That included a record of 34-23 (59% ATS) in College TOTALS PLAYS.

In 2006, King finished in the TOP FIVE in the Country in NBA Over / Unders  with an overall record of 67-47 (59%).

In 2006, the Dawg Pound Hotline finished NUMBER ONE (#2) in the Country in College Basketball MARCH MADNESS with an overall record of 13-6 (68% ATS).

In 2006, King finished with a College Football BOWL record of 10-4 (71% ATS) which was good enough for a TOP TEN ranking with the Sports Monitor.

In 2007/08, the Dawg Pound Hotline finished #6 in the Country in NBA Basketball, with a 60% winning percentage (42-28 ATS overall).

In 2008/09, the Dawg Pound Hotline went 36-24 ATS in College Basketball, good for a winning percentage of 60%... and a ranking of #8 in the Country.

Since handicapping success is all about the streaks, the best EVER winning streak from King Creole Sports was in the last two rounds (Conference and League Finals) of the 2002 NBA PLAYOFFS.  In “crunch time”, King and Company delivered 14 STRAIGHT NBA Over / Under Winners! In the last 12 months, our best winning streak in Post-Season play was in the first round of this season’s NBA Playoffs… in which we hot 9 games in a row from April 26th to May 5th.

Sharp players and gamblers already know that the “Holy Grail” in terms of handicapping success is a winning percentage of 59% or higher over the course of a month… a season… or multiple seasons. And that’s what we strive for at King Creole Sports. We’re especially proud of the fact that when it comes to crunch time, we tend to win at a higher percentage. And ‘crunch time’ is the POST-SEASON. Our documented results in Post-Season play is highlighted by the following:

In the NFL PLAYOFFS, King Creole has gone a very profitable 41-14 ATS since the 2004 season. That’s a 6-year period in which the NFL post-season has gone 74%!  The breakdown according to the year: 2004 – 7-3 ATS… 2005 – 8-1 ATS… 2006 – 6-4 ATS… 2007 – 8-1 ATS… 2008 – 7-2 ATS… 2009 – 5-3 ATS. And in the SUPER BOWL, we have nailed OVER / UNDER winners in EACH of the last 6 seasons (with last year’s game going “OVER”).

In the NBA Playoffs, King Creole has gone 60-37-2 (62%) ATS in the last 2 seasons (2008 and 2009). That breaks down to 32-18-1 ATS in 2008… and 28-19-1 ATS in 2009. In our ‘forte’ which is Totals plays… the numbers are even better at 37-19-1 ATS (66%).

In the football season, our selections are always released the night BEFORE a game. Sometimes, we’ll even come out a day or two in advance. In that way, our customers can get their action in as soon as possible to take advantage of the ‘softer’ lines. Once you get to game day, the ‘steam’ that comes in can potentially wipe out the value of a play… particularly an Over / Under selection. So it’s always advantageous for our customers to shop for the best line possible…. At least the night before a game.

On average, a typical King Creole selection has a write-up and analysis of 500 to 700 words. The more information and data that you can provide to a client (I call it ATS and OU ‘ammo’), the clearer that you can state your case. We have no respect for handicappers who throw out a few sentences and call that an analysis. Customers need to know that they are paying their hard-earned money for a write up that has some ‘meat’ to it… and hard work behind it. So you always get a thoughtful and meaningful analysis with plenty of data when you purchase a King Creole play.  As an example, here’s the write-up that we used in our Super Bowl winner on the Cardinals and Steelers ‘Over the Total’:

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