For starters, I put up a boxing match with a 100 cent line which I was allready embarrassed to do but I knew how the bosses would react if I put up anything with less than a 50 cent spread. So I opened a HEAVEYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT ....
-450
+350
Was instructed to make it...
-475
+275
I could not embarass myself working for a place like that. This was really just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on and on and on.
-450
+350
Was instructed to make it...
-475
+275
I could not embarass myself working for a place like that. This was really just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on and on and on.
The "unnamed" place was funny. I remember one time not that long ago I went into there and at that time they were passing around a theoretical hat. Some regular in the race book, a guy that came in 6 days a week (he didn't think he should be gambling on Sunday) had a wheelchair stolen while in the casino and as appreciation for a guy that tipped on the rare times he hit something good they were going to pitch in and get him a replacement as his insurance wasn't going to cover it. The "hat" came to a total of about $25. They asked managers to chip in, the hat got to about $60. They asked casino management to chip in and the response was "that is an employee initiated idea, we can't chip in because then we are buying things like that for everyone".
It was silly and hideous, I mean the whole charade said it all, as told by someone that works there, but not in the race/sports book. Finally the issue was resolved because another regular heard about it and it so happened his father had died recently and this patron donated his late father's wheelchair to essentially bail-out this losing proposition.
It was silly and hideous, I mean the whole charade said it all, as told by someone that works there, but not in the race/sports book. Finally the issue was resolved because another regular heard about it and it so happened his father had died recently and this patron donated his late father's wheelchair to essentially bail-out this losing proposition.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mvbski:
I remember that one it was funny,I hated to see them bought out by station's they were a great out they always shaded the favorite alot<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
When making book there, I routinely was 1 to 1.5 higher on all the favorites and they would still hammer away on the favorites. Our hold percentage may have set records for the city of Las Vegas while I worked there. It was incredible. You had to see it firsthand to believe it. To bad our handle was nil.
By the way, I started work at the Sands about one week after Nick had left.
I remember that one it was funny,I hated to see them bought out by station's they were a great out they always shaded the favorite alot<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
When making book there, I routinely was 1 to 1.5 higher on all the favorites and they would still hammer away on the favorites. Our hold percentage may have set records for the city of Las Vegas while I worked there. It was incredible. You had to see it firsthand to believe it. To bad our handle was nil.
By the way, I started work at the Sands about one week after Nick had left.
Wasn't that bettor supposedly Carl Icahn, the billionaire? I remember when it happened Jimmy explained that this guy was rich and understood the risk, but he felt the return was better than putting money in the bank. He put up $2.4 million to win $300,000. If it was him then losing $2 million would have been like pocket change.
I had never been into Caesar's that hole in the wall. After hearing the bet I went and took a look. If ever a place could be called a dive, that had to be it. And what a location too, where the Paris is now it was in a strip mall. I went inside and saw a craps table going and then it hit me, I knew why Stupak made his bet there. It was the only other place in town that I knew of that offered his Crapless Craps game!
