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Old 10-09-2005, 02:34 PM
STLantny STLantny is offline
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Default Re: \"Two For the Money\"

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Heard an interview with McCaugghney on the Rome show. He said there are pick lines where they take a percentage of your winnings. Dont think this is true, how would they ever know how much you bet. Anyway he sounded like a moron and the movie sounded pretty dumb.

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Huh? What do you mean "how would they ever know how much you bet?" Who are they, the bookies? The bookies kinda have to know how much you bet... otherwise the bet is kinda shady isn't it? And for the line picks Matt McC is right from the way you listed it. You bet 100 bucks and lose, its gone. You bet 100 bucks and win, you'll get typically 190 back. Its their rake.

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If one of my 50-100$ players, bumps up a bet to 500$, I ask questions, to see if they are chasing and in trouble etc, usually though, they bump the bet, because of touts. I asked one of them one night, when I ran into him in a bar how it works. You call up, get your pick, tell them how much you are going to bet (usually its not a percentage) and they take your credit card info. If the bet wins, they charge your credit card, if the bet loses they dont charge you. This is why most of the touts get scam reps, becasue a lot of times, they just charge a shitload on your CC independent of whether the pick wins.
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