Title: Did anyone else win a boatload of money betting on Trump to win? Source:
None URL Source:[None] Published:Nov 9, 2016 Author:Me Post Date:2016-11-09 12:45:56 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:5130 Comments:31
I did - I got 5 to 1 odds and cleaned up. Not as good as the 25-1 odds I got when I bet on Holyfield to beat Tyson in '96, but I'm not complaining.
Where are all the posers who were so sure he was going to win and didn't take advantage of it?
Betting for money on elections is illegal in most states. So if you did it, don't write it down here for the world to see, lest you be visited by the authorities.
Not as good as the 25-1 odds I got when I bet on Holyfield to beat Tyson in '96
I don't believe you at all. I don't believe Holyfield was even an underdog.
Most books had Trump had AT MOST as a 3-1 underdog.
Typical Paultard nonsense.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Most books had Trump had AT MOST as a 3-1 underdog.
Monday nite I was watching Fox, when someone mentioned the Vegas odds were up to 4 1/2 to one.
Sure enough my bay area bookie confirmed, -- so I bet $250 dollars. -- This morning my bookie called and asked how he should get the $1100 dollars up to me, here in the mountains..
I don't believe you at all. I don't believe Holyfield was even an underdog.
Probably because you weren't even born yet Einstein.
I was 36 years old at the time and had just returned from spending a lot of time in Reno.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Monday nite I was watching Fox, when someone mentioned the Vegas odds were up to 4 1/2 to one.
Even Nate Silver had it at 2.5 to one, so if your bookmaker offered that, he's an idiot.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
--- don't believe you at all. ---- Most books had Trump had AT MOST as a 3-1 underdog.
Monday nite I was watching Fox, when someone mentioned the Vegas odds were up to 4 1/2 to one.
Sure enough my bay area bookie confirmed, -- so I bet $250 dollars. -- This morning my bookie called and asked how he should get the $1100 dollars up to me, here in the mountains..
I told him to send me cash.
- Even Nate Silver had it at 2.5 to one, so if your bookmaker offered that, he's an idiot.
My bookie operates through the 'boys' in the Bahamas, who are far from idiots.
What it is: Sushi; Sashimi; Crudo; Seafood Tartare; Ceviche
What Doonan Says: "Japanese food that is some seriously gay food ... Ive been to restaurants in Japan where they bring out a watermelon in its entirety and they open it up and inside its full of ice and one little pink piece of sushi in the middle.
Basically, youre taking sloppy bits of fish and making them into these exquisite little bonbons, and that seems inordinately gay to me."
What Kinsey Says: The Kinsey 6 is "exclusively homosexual"
What We Say: That sort of makes sense. You'd only eat this food in a restaurant serving an assortment Doonan's other gay foods, whether it's an appetizer at an Italian restaurant or a main at a Japanese restaurant--the place probably serves lighter, stylized fare on stunning, perhaps over-worked plates.
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
Monday nite I was watching Fox, when someone mentioned the Vegas odds were up to 4 1/2 to one. - I bet using roughly those odds and won $1100.
Since betting on elections is illegal in the US (even in Nevada), there really isn't such a thing as Vegas odds.
Vegas has oddsmakers. They post odds on many controversial events that may or may not be 'legal' to bet on, no gnu thought
There are no Las Vegas odds on elections. Nothing that is sanctioned. To cite "Las vegas" odds on an election is just stupid. ---- I've lived in Nevada and worked in casinos there.
Winning $1100 is not stupid, -- but apparently, having lived in Vegas hasn't made you smart enough to realize that fact.
The head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship recently became the first head of a major sports league to welcome gay athletes.
I found out later that the two men sitting with the women were among a growing gay MMA fan base.
They told me that they were just as turned on by the action as their female friend but contained themselves for fear of retribution from the "hyper-macho" crowd. "She says what we can't when we watch the fights in public," one said.
Recently, gay bloggers, homophobic critics of MMA, and even straight fans have declared that one of the great appeals of the sport is its homoeroticism. They note the large number of gay men and straight women who have become fans of MMA and attribute it to the appeal of the nearly-naked hard bodies of the fighters and the intimate, often pelvic techniques of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the favored grappling discipline in the sport.
Jim Buzinski, the publisher of Outsports.com, a web site devoted to gay sports fans and athletes that has counted NFL Network and ESPN Radio among its advertisers, calls MMA "intrinsically homoerotic."
He claims that "while it is impossible to quantify numbers, it's clear that MMA has a gay following." This month, one of the site's most viewed articles was a list of "A Straight Guy's Top MMA Hotties."
Spike TV's "Ultimate Fighter" reality series, in which a group of fighters live together in a house and compete for a UFC contract, is especially popular with Outsports readers. Buzinski calls it "the most homoerotic show on TV."