June 13, 2008 at 3:19 pm
· Filed under Sports, Basketball, Online Poker, Sports Betting
Phil Ivey hasn’t had a good week.
Various news sources have reported that the Full Tilt Poker pro has bet $2 million on the Lakers to win the NBA championship.
We don’t know when he made this bet, but it was sometime before game 3, because he tipped staff at the WSOP to get the TV near his table to show the game instead of the level information for the tournament everybody else was busy playing. He was playing too, but the Lakers captured his attention more than any cards in front of him.
Other losses this week include $80,000 worth of re-buys and add-ons in the 2-7 Lowball tournament where he didn’t cash. And $100,000 to PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu on a golf bet.
If he has in fact bet $2 mil on the Lakers, he’s in some trouble after their game 4 capitulation. Here at OG, we’re still stunned at how a Phil Jackson coached team could squander a 24 point lead at home. They were -7 favorites with the oddsmakers, paying just 1.30 (-330) for the win versus Boston’s 3.65! (+265)
The Lakers are now a longshot to win the title, after starting the series as favorites. No team has ever come from 1-3 down to win an NBA Championship.
Phil won’t be the only one crying about that…
Ed
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June 11, 2008 at 3:17 pm
· Filed under Sports, NFL, Online Sportsbooks
BetUS is posting odds on whether Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens will test positive for performance enhancing drugs.
According to news reports, T.O. was in New York last tuesday, meeting with NFL officials after being placed in the league’s “reasonable cause” testing program for performance-enhancing drugs. The superstar was placed under additional scrutiny from the league on the same day that he received a contract extension for an exorbitant amount of money.
Will he test positive?
BetUS doesn’t think he will, offering 5.00 (4/1) odds on a positive result this season. They’re only paying 1.50 (1/2) for Terrell to stay clean.
Looking at the pic to the right, you sure couldn’t rule steroids out! He’s one cut mofo.
Let’s hope he got those abs from hard work and not the juice…
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June 8, 2008 at 2:50 pm
· Filed under Racing, Horses, Online Racebooks
Big Brown was ‘empty’?
“He was empty. He didn’t have anything left,” jockey , Kent Desormeaux said. “There’s no popped tires. He’s just out of gas.”
But his last race was three weeks ago? How can he still be so tired?
The Big Brown one straggled home on Saturday, losing the Belmont Stakes to 38-1 long shot Da’ Tara, who led wire-to-wire. Eased up in the homestretch, the 1-4 favorite was so far behind at the end that his margin of defeat wasn’t even charted. He came dead last to end his Triple Crown hopes in the worst possible way.
He had arrived at Belmont Park undefeated in five starts, winning all of them by a combined 39 lengths. His path to history seemed even more assured when the also unbeaten Casino Drive was scratched on the morning of the race because of a bruised left hind hoof.
Luckily we didn’t end up betting on the race. We did initially have a sneaky bet on Casino Drive to win against the field minus Big Brown. But seeing as the Japanese horse was scratched, we got our money back.
So instead of becoming the 12th Triple Crown winner and first in 30 years -Big Brown was the first horse going for a Triple to finish last. That’s not what the 94,476 fans that showed up to watch wanted!
Well done Da’ Tara. You were the horse that was supposed to come last - you sure showed all of us punters!
Let’s hope the Lakers can beat those Celtics Sunday to give us a little happiness this weekend.
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