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Gambling Thread

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

  1. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Does this look like a man who has bet all he can bet?
     
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  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    I did a random three-team college basketball parlay tonight. Was putting in some football bets for the weekend, had $5 left over, and picked three favorites in the late night games.
    And that's how I learned that there is a Portland and a Portland State.
     
  3. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Sign you might not be a gambler: You meet up with family members in Las Vegas. One of them enjoys playing a few slot machines, etc., in a casino. You pass the time by spending $5 (twice!) on five live keno drawings. Win $1 on one of the games and call it good!
     
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  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    No video poker available?
     
  5. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Oh, there plenty of those machines — including, of course, at every bar. Why just chat or watch TV while you drink when you can keep gambling? :)
     
  6. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    What a loser! :D
     
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  7. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    There are five games tomorrow in Conference USA. Liberty is a 7.5 favorite at FIU, which makes sense enough. The remaining four games all have the home team favored by 3.5. Over/under totals are different for each game, so it isn’t like they are cutting and pasting. Might be coincidence or it might be that the action is so light that they aren’t paying attention like you’d expect. Maybe something to keep an eye on the next couple of weeks.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    If you are betting the Shrine Game or the Senior Bowl, you might need professional help. Though I think I would take the "overs" on the player prop bets. You'll probably win most of them.
     
  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Ah, live Keno was always a highlight of Nevada runs in my younger days. Buy a 100-play ticket and fall asleep to it on the hotel TV, then next morning cash it in: "hey, I won $6!" Or play in the coffee shop, tipping the nice woman running the numbers. Or, best of all, stumble into the keno lounge in the wee hours with the other degenerates and soak up free drinks while slowly bleeding out the wallet.

    I remember me and a friend of mine were at the Comstock hotel/casino in Reno (long gone now) and they closed the live keno at 2 or 3 a.m. and we were aghast. "Keno never closes!"
     
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  10. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I asked about horse racing the other day. I actually have FanDuel TV on Hulu. I tried watching a couple races yesterday and seeing how I'd do. It's just not the same as being at the track or an OTB simulcast joint.
    That sort of scratched my little itch, and I don't need to set up an account.
     
  11. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    One last Vegas comment and then I’m done. So as my wife was visiting the Swatch store near the New York New York casino, I wandered near the sports book to look at the betting lines on their big board.

    It’s early Friday afternoon, dead as a doornail at the sports book, but three different guys working there try to talk with me:

    “Gonna watch the championship games this weekend?”

    “Buffalo-KC is basically a toss up.”

    “Jalen Hurts is banged up, Commanders might be a good option.”

    And so on.

    You’d have thought they were women dressed in slutty police outfits with plastic handcuffs the way those sports book guys were coming on to me! ;)
     
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  12. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    A friend of a good friend of mine puts together syndicates to buy horses and a couple of times I threw in a little bit of cash to participate. There is nothing more depressing than going to the Meadowlands to watch simulcast harness racing. It’s like deadbeat dads central.
     
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