Gambling Thread

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

'Tis no human. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine!

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

 

[Batman]

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.

 

[I Should Coco]

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 pash the time by spending $5 (twice!) on five live keno drawings. Win $1 on one of the games and call it good!

 

[swingline]

No video poker available?

 

[I Should Coco]

No video poker available?

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?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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 pash the time by spending $5 (twice!) on five live keno drawings. Win $1 on one of the games and call it good!

What a loser!

 

[dixiehack]

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.

 

[DanOregon]

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.

 

[playthrough]

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 pash the time by spending $5 (twice!) on five live keno drawings. Win $1 on one of the games and call it good!

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!"

 

[Driftwood]

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.

 

[I Should Coco]

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!

 

[Webster]

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.

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.