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Gambling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Oct 18, 2013.

  1. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    I don't know, I've never given him any of my money. I'd rather go to Vegas and see all my old friends out there and place the bets myself.
     
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  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    You did almost nothing in that hand correctly :)
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I haven't bet sports in years, mainly because I caught myself considering placing bets on games I was going to cover. So I stick with rare casino trips and the horses in the spring and summer.

    But I did jump back in on the Jaguars plus the points against the Broncos. Otherwise, I'll live vicariously through y'all.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I get that a lot. To which I often say, "Scoreboard."

    The only thing I'd argue against myself on is calling the 600 on the flop. But even that was 33 percent to call into a pot where I had two live cards (the 2 and the 3) plus a couple of other chances to build a straight with the turn. Where I really don't know what I would have done is if the turn was a 4 and he bet the 1,500. Probably would have dumped it at that point.

    Staying in pre-flop was what burned the guy up the most, but to me that was the easiest call. 150 into a 1,050 pot with connectors, and then I ditch it if flop gives me nothing.
     
  5. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    You're losing money in the long run with that pre-flop strategy. But having fun is +EV, so go nuts.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I still kick myself for not placing bets when I was covering college hoops. I was covering a coach who would basically tell me before the game if he was going to be pulling starters early if it was a blowout and would tell me off the record, "This coach pissed me off last year, so we're going to beat them by 40." and would do just that. I kept track as to how I would have done betting the games against the spread and I would have gone 24-7 one year and 27-6 the following year.

    I always think that if I had actually placed money on the games, the outcome would have been different. :D
     
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Forget ethical violation. Wouldn't that be a felony?
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Well, I never would have done it, but I worked with tons of people over the years who bet on the teams they covered.
     
  9. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Hmmm. Maybe it isn't. Or maybe they just don't care. Would seem to be a case of using the insider influence, though maybe that isn't criminal as long as you aren't actually paying for the info.
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Very early in my career we found out on a Monday that a starting quarterback was going to be held out of a game with kind of a phantom injury. This was pre-internet (for the most part) and one of the copy editors went around the office taking as much money as he could so we could all bet the game. I was only a couple months out of college and didn't have a ton of $$, but I bet $300 on it. There were guys in there betting as much as $5K. We bet the game with the other team favored by 2 and as soon as the injury news came out, it moved to 13. Our entire department, including sports editors and other managers bet the game.

    That's the only time in my life I've placed a bet with a bookie, and technically, I didn't place the bet, I just was in on it.
     
  11. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Two decades ago on a Vegas trip over Spring Break, I made a few hundred dollars betting... wait for it...

    ...Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament point-spreads.

    At the time, I was the beat writer for our college's women's team and knew all of the ins and outs of the rosters.

    That was the only profitable portion of that trip, between losing 17 hands in a row at Stardust and thinking Lute Olson's teams would escape the first round, pre-Miles Simon.
     
  12. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    Did you win?
     
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