Sports Betting Stories

sportypicks.com · #1 05-12-2005, 02:23 PM

Well let's see I'm not sure if I'm a masocist (sp?) but I only seem to remember my horror stories.

1) Lost 11 consecutive games at one point last year.

2) Yesterday I lost just over 7 (4 wins 11 losses) units on some of the most amazing things that can happen. Had the Under 9.5 in Bos/Oak (we know how that turned out) as one of them.

But today is a new day and I've been around too long to dwell on things like that.

Heinz57 · #2 05-12-2005, 03:36 PM

My worst experience thus far was falling in love (I know a big no no remain unattached) with the Houston Rockets. I watched the first game without betting and figured if they could win with a horrible performance from Yao they were a nice bet in game two Yes! Unfortunately, I thought they were a no brainer at home, Doh! and Doh! Liked them where they won their first two in DAL for game 5 Doh! Then had enough really believed Dallas had their number and switched betting against them in game 6 Doh! Reverted back to backing them in game seven in time for another Doh! experience. This experience convinced me to become a strict unit based bettor as I loaded up towards the end losing more...Lesson learned [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

dicelumpY2005 · #3 05-12-2005, 07:15 PM

I'm not sure of the exact details, but I believe that there was a Redskins/Bears game several years ago that I bet like $300 on under 33. (Was in college at the time, so a bet like that meant the world!) Anyways...I believe the score was 19-13 with less than a minute to go. Washington has the ball on their own 3 when 4th down comes up...wouldn't you know it, but the ol' "free safety" comes into effect just so Washington could get some extra room to kickoff with. Final score: Washington 19, Chicago 15. Goes over by a point. For some reason, I'll never forget that beat...

lastsamurai · #4 05-16-2005, 04:49 AM

This has to be one of the worse nfl football stories...

I took the J-E-T-S the first year bill parcels was coaching. the Line was 4 1/2 they were up 16 - 10 with less than 1 min to go. It was 4th and long deep in their end zone. Neil o donald scrables...scrambles...turns around...and throws the ball in the endzone...2 point safety! Talk about bad beats!

hogua · #5 05-18-2005, 05:16 PM

I've been getting beat up all this week (going back through the weekend). Out of the blue on Monday, my wife asks me, "Hey, just for fun, what are the odd for American Idol?"

I was playing poker at Bodog, so I checked their line. Carrie was at +110, which surprised me, as she was below even money last time I checked. So, I looked at Pinny, and what do you know? Carrie to not win was at +112.

So out of the blue, free money hits me right in the face. I got Carrier to win at +110 and Carrier not to wim at +112.

Now, that's my kind of slump buster. Hopefully, the wife will be curious about something else tonight. LOL