This is the worst bad beat ever

jwblue · Mar 14, 2013

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Think you’ve had a bad beat? Worse than this guy?

Chris Lawless would have made $1,600 profit on a $40wager if not for the exuberance of Iona College’s basketball team.

Lawless, 53, bet on the Gaels as a four-point favorite over Manhattan College as part of a six-game parlay Monday night. With victory seemingly in hand, he said he watched Iona’s eight-point lead with one second remaining turn into a three-point victory from his sofa in Las Vegas.

“It was such disbelief that I couldn’t speak,” he said. “My heart just sank.”

Iona, which won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title and secured the league’s automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament with the victory, opened a 60-52 lead with six seconds remaining.

Manhattan took what seemed to be the final shot, a 3-pointer that went in with 0.1 seconds left to bring the score to 60-55. Gaels players rushed the court to celebrate, and referees called a technical foul because the game hadn’t ended. Manhattan guard Donovan Kates hit both free throws to make it 60-57, before Iona inbounded the ball as time expired.

“It’s hard to fathom a less-likely outcome, a worse beat,” RJ Bell , founder and chief executive of sports handicapping website Pregame.com, said in a telephone interview. “If you literally let your imagination be your limitation, how could it be worse?”

Bell said it was the fourth mostbet game last night, with about 70 percent of those point-spread bets on Iona. He was unable to say the total amount wagered, whether Lawless was the biggest loser or if other bettors were left in the same position.

RoofTop · Mar 14, 2013

This guy and Justincruise should get together and have a pity party

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bigtendominator · Mar 14, 2013

Stilll nothing worse than the Robin Ventura Mets/Braves over/under. Also, when betting I assume players will go crazy and start throwing chairs causing multiple Techs leading to me not covering a game.

Well-Seasoned · Mar 14, 2013

I think the worse bad beat I had was several years ago where the team actually won the baseball game and the standings ended up reflecting it evenutally, but it didn't count initially due to a rain delay...They were behind during the first rain delay then took the lead by a bunch of runs, but then there was another rain delay so it referred back to the previous inning....The irony is a month later they finished the game and last few innings and my team won the game just to rub it in.........One of the strangest things I've ever seen.

RaoulDuke · Mar 14, 2013

Well-Seasoned said:
I think the worse bad beat I had was several years ago where the team actually won the baseball game and the standings ended up reflecting it evenutally, but it didn't count initially due to a rain delay...They were behind during the first rain delay then took the lead by a bunch of runs, but then there was another rain delay so it referred back to the previous inning....The irony is a month later they finished the game and last few innings and my team won the game just to rub it in.........One of the strangest things I've ever seen.

I remember receiving many angry calls from players over that game.

CatsOverUnders · Mar 14, 2013

Disagreed, fellas. The worst bad beats are those games in baseball where the OVER is already decided past the 7th or so inning... but doesn't count if it rains and ends the game early. In the event that happens, the bet is completely wiped out with a "No Action" tag, despite the fact that it may already be over the total before the ninth inning.

I mean, if you have over 8, and the game is 10-4 in the 6th inning, but you can't even collect because it randomly starts raining and ends the game early at that point, there's NOTHING worse than that because you can't prevent that. I'd rather lose a game over idiot fans than unpredictable weather (Since there are also games with no precipitation in the forecast, yet will see random spurts of rain that potentially wrap up a game early)