If you have not yet read it go to main page -- it's pretty funny.
Before Vegas went to commingling racing bets
uppy: with the mutuel pools, they were a hilarious waystation of bookie poltroonery. I once saw a guy, inebriated, have his bets turned down after betting $20 on a winning exacta.
Mother-henned by the then ubiquitous Roxy, who saw "betting rings" everywhere, nefarious characters out to do in his beloved bookmaker clients, Vegas was at the time, as far as horse racing goes, the kind of place that if there were forums like this they'd be punched out in print a dozen times a day.
To the LV race books then, made even more paranoid by casual horseplayer Roxy's petulant wailings that if the books didn't tighten up they'd soon be ruined, every temporarily winning player was an agent of a "betting ring." Sick.
(Roxy also used to advise the books to stop issuing ten team parlay cards, since "one day all the favorites will cover and many books will be very badly hurt." (The quote is from memory, but it's the essence of what he said.)
Let me add a predated definition to Scott's list. In Vegas terminology, a BETTING RING was a group of old ladies from Phoenix who got a little lucky betting horses with names similar to that of their cats.
Before Vegas went to commingling racing bets
uppy: with the mutuel pools, they were a hilarious waystation of bookie poltroonery. I once saw a guy, inebriated, have his bets turned down after betting $20 on a winning exacta.Mother-henned by the then ubiquitous Roxy, who saw "betting rings" everywhere, nefarious characters out to do in his beloved bookmaker clients, Vegas was at the time, as far as horse racing goes, the kind of place that if there were forums like this they'd be punched out in print a dozen times a day.
To the LV race books then, made even more paranoid by casual horseplayer Roxy's petulant wailings that if the books didn't tighten up they'd soon be ruined, every temporarily winning player was an agent of a "betting ring." Sick.
(Roxy also used to advise the books to stop issuing ten team parlay cards, since "one day all the favorites will cover and many books will be very badly hurt." (The quote is from memory, but it's the essence of what he said.)
Let me add a predated definition to Scott's list. In Vegas terminology, a BETTING RING was a group of old ladies from Phoenix who got a little lucky betting horses with names similar to that of their cats.
