Vegas Bookie: A-Rod Bet on Baseball?

I think we just went from a carrot to a kumquat.

 

Yes, foof, I know it's not true.

I was using an example of another sports conspiracy theory that has nothing to do ... you know what, nevermind. It'll just sail right over your head.

 

Perhaps we should stop insulting carrots and kumquats...both of which are higher forms of intelligence than dumb_bastard

 

I agree that there are some aspects to this "story" that are hard to believe including why a bookie would out a customer betting millions of dollars with him and why anyone in Las Vegas would need a bookie in the first place.

Nevertheless, before the bashing of the source continues unabated, consider how everyone in the sports media reacted to the first statements by Jose Canseco about steroid use in baseball. He was villified and ridiculed. And for the most part, he was proven to be - - right.

So, l'll say that I need a lot more real evidence of this "betting on baseball story" regarding A-Rod than is presented here by "Ianundercover" and a putative bookie in Las Vegas named "Red" before I start to wonder what the next chapter in the story might be. But just in case "Ianundercover" is the analog of Jose Canseco here, I'll refrain from dumping all over Deeper_Background for the moment...

 

deeper_background has earned the dumping not just with this thread, but with his history on this board. Jose Canseco also earned his dumping in many ways, including lying for many years about his own steroid use.

 

You haven't been around these parts very long, have you?

 

Everytime Deeper Background is bashed, an angel gets its wings.

 

While that might be from 2005, there's no way A-Rod quit gambling at stakes like that cold turkey just because someone told him to. He just found other ways to do it.

 

What stakes? Maybe A-Rod bought into a $100 weekly tournament.

 

Sure. He's playing five nights in a row in NYC's underground poker rooms (which I believe are now shut down anyway, or at least the ones around then have been) with Phil Hellmuth for a hundred bucks.

 

Considering I've sat at a $3-6 table with Hellmuth, his presence changes nothing.

Those rooms used to (and still do) spread all sorts of games. You can get into tournaments for as low as $25 a pop. I'd wager they were playing tournaments (probably not the $25 ones) and not toting around $100k each for $500-1000 NL cash games.

 

I played in some of those rooms. The bigger ones pretty much died around the time of the A-Rod publicity -- it isn't illegal to play there, just illegal to run a game. But if the game is busted, the cops confiscate the money.

The games really do run the gamut -- I played in tourneys as low as $25 and a $1-$2 NL game. But there are also some crazy games -- a friend played $80-$160 NL where serious money was won and lost.