Sports bettor wins huge online bet - MGM cancels it

[odanny]

This is disturbing to me, someone who clearly has put together a winning bet and had it verified by someone at MGM wins this kind of money and then gets hosed like this. They will likely offer a "settlement" which means he gets screwed out of most of it.

 

[1srelluc]

Who the **** bets $2000 while trying to raise a family?

Something stinks.

Everything involved with gambling (on both ends) makes me hate it even more.

 

[shockedcanadian]

This is disturbing to me, someone who clearly has put together a winning bet and had it verified by someone at MGM wins this kind of money and then gets hosed like this. They will likely offer a "settlement" which means he gets screwed out of most of it.

He should continue to promote his story if he has been robbed by them, it will cost them many millions more in future business that's for sure.

One thing about gamblers, as much as they are of poor moral character in many instances, when it comes to such details and risks if they actually won (which is rare), they become as strong willed as a pitbull on a bone and they will bet on another site if they believe one is not on the level.

 

[odanny]

Who the **** bets $2000 while trying to raise a family?

Someone who knows what he's doing.

Huge risk at those crazy odds (350-1), and he hit it. Check out Jeopardy! GOAT James Holzhauer, some people know how to do this better than others.

 

[okfine]

Casinos can deny winnings to anyone. Don't forget that.

 

[multivita-man]

Who the **** bets $2000 while trying to raise a family?

Something stinks.

Everything involved with gambling (on both ends) makes me hate it even more.

What's even worse is how professional sports, which for decades fought vigorously to keep gambling out of sports, now openly embraces Draft Kings and the like.

My prediction is that there will be a major gambling scandal that will rock sports. If I had to guess, it will happen in one of the collegiate sports tournaments, like the NCAAs or the 12-team playoff in football. Some kid or group of kids are gonna get bent over not getting what they think they deserve in terms of NIL and sports collective money. Some organized criminal will identify who they are and corrupt them by paying them to come up lame or deliberately **** up big. Because they're college kids, they'll say something stupid to the wrong person and they'll blow the lid off the whole thing.

 

[Dean F]

If the error was "obvious," then why did they not tell the guy 7 hours earlier? Duh.

 

[odanny]

You have to be smart if you're a professional, you should learn to place smaller bets with smaller payouts, hammering a book for half a million means they will likely deny your payout and take their chances in court.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Gambling is stupid period.

 

[odanny]

Gambling is stupid period.

I put $12 on Shedeur Sanders being drafted by Cleveland and $8 on him being drafted by the Saints and won $45, how 'bout 'dem apples?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I put $12 on Shedeur Sanders being drafted by Cleveland and $8 on him being drafted by the Saints and won $45, how 'bout 'dem apples?

Bet you have lost far more gambling than you have won.

 

[odanny]

Bet you have lost far more gambling than you have won.

Bet you're wrong, because you don't know how I gamble.

You make incorrect assumptons based on your own past experiences.

Stop projecting.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Bet you're wrong, because you don't know how I gamble.

You make incorrect assumptons based on your own past experiences.

Stop projecting.

My assumption is based on the lack of sensibility in your posts. I would be willing to gamble that incoherence theory guides your gaming.

 

[odanny]

My assumption is based on the lack of sensibility in your posts. I would be willing to gamble that incoherence theory guides your gaming.

It is best you don't wager, leave that to folks who know what they're doing.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It is best you don't wager, leave that to folks who know what they're doing.

But you don't. It's obvious.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

This is disturbing to me, someone who clearly has put together a winning bet and had it verified by someone at MGM wins this kind of money and then gets hosed like this. They will likely offer a "settlement" which means he gets screwed out of most of it.

Pay the man his money or explain why you didn't pay, you scumbags.

 

[yeh]

Gambling against the house is bad enough, let alone the house cheating.