Stu Feiner review: $1,000 a day, best bets named in dollars and records with no dates

The man and the business

Stu "The Source" Feiner is one of the loudest names the picks business ever had, and his site doesn't pretend otherwise. The about page says that since 1982 he has been "a national force and household name in the world of Professional Sports Gambling", that his company Sports Advisors started in 1989, and that the act now lives on in the show Barstool Sports Advisors, with Dave Portnoy and Dan Katz. It mentions a radio show and a memoir. The tagline calls him "The Gambling God since 1989".

The dates don't line up: the same page has him in the business "since 1982" and calls this "my 37 year career", which counts from 1989. The footer still says 2022. None of that matters much on its own. Touts have always rounded their history up. It does tell you what kind of page you're reading: a sales page for a personality.

What it costs

The prices are on the site, which is more than many sellers manage. The day's full card, released at 6:30pm Eastern, is $1,000. A daily combo, a college football pass and an MLB pass are $199 each, and leave out the bigger plays. The best bets are sold one at a time and named in dollars: the $25k Best Bet is $1,000, the $50k is $2,000, "Double Your Net Worth $50k Best Bet" is $4,000, and the $100K Best Bet is $5,000. A week of all selections is $15,000 and October is $50,000. At the bottom end there's a 555 Special for $55 and Sunday Night Football for $99.

You pay by PayPal, or you call him for anything else. The phone number is (516) 698-8870, and the contact page says calling is the easiest way to reach him.

The dollar names are the part to read slowly. A "$100K Best Bet" isn't a bet anybody asks you to make. It's a label that says how much Stu likes the play. The site doesn't define a unit anywhere, so the label is the only measure of size you get. (For $5,000, I'd want to know whether he's betting it himself.)

The records

The home page shows four: "$100k Bet Record 145-126-2", "$50k Bet Record 300-233-8", "$25K Bet Record 281-261-8" and "2x NET WORTH Record 56-38-1". That's 53.5 percent, 56.3 percent, 51.8 percent and 59.6 percent of the decided games.

There are no dates on any of them, no prices and no list of the picks behind them. A side at -110 needs 52.4 percent to break even, so if those were -110 plays, the $25K record is a losing one. I can't tell you that it is, because the site doesn't say what price any pick was given at. The about page says he has had a winning record "every year since the site has been live". It shows no year.

A record is the time the pick went out, the price it was given at and the size, for every pick. Our ATB Verified page sets out why. What Stu's site has is four totals.

What the site doesn't say

I found no guarantee, no refund policy and no terms beyond one line, in capitals: by buying, you agree not to redistribute the picks, and passing them on is "illegal" and will bring "legal action". There is no email address or mailing address, only the phone number.

At $1,000 a day, ask him on the phone what happens when the card loses, and get the answer in writing. Then ask for last season's best bets with their dates and prices. If he has them, you'll learn more from that list than from anything on the site.

No pick removes the risk from a bet, however loud the man selling it. Size each play from your own bankroll, not from the dollar figure in its name. The handicappers section has more on reading a record.