NBA/Texas Hold em gambling scheme

This is just breaking.

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This is just breaking.
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Info out now is vague. Son is postulating that maybe Billups lost big $$ at poker, and might have mentioned which players would be getting more or less playing time to his Mafia buddies to make his poker debts go away.

Head coach can EASILY fix some of these player prop bets. Joel Embiid only played 20 minutes last night. If that was ‘planned’ by the HC but not public that info could be worth $$$$$$. Maybe another $.

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Quote: rxwine

This is just breaking.
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Info out now is vague. Son is postulating that maybe Billups lost big $$ at poker, and might have mentioned which players would be getting more or less playing time to his Mafia buddies to make his poker debts go away.

Head coach can EASILY fix some of these player prop bets. Joel Embiid only played 20 minutes last night. If that was ‘planned’ by the HC but not public that info could be worth $$$$$$. Maybe another $.
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It appears to be "Take a fall in the 5th round" type of thing, except Basketball. 4 Mobs involved. 30 people arrested

Is there an AP topic on negotiating the least vulnerable sport betting options vulnerable to manipulation?

And I'm still suspicious of the NFL kicker who missed all those extra point goals in a row.

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Is there an AP topic on negotiating the least vulnerable sport betting options vulnerable to manipulation?

And I'm still suspicious of the NFL kicker who missed all those extra point goals in a row.
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Anything is possible. But he hit a bunch of field goals, right? And he’s on the fringes of being an NFL kicker, so worth literally millions if he makes them and hangs around the league.

Any game can be fixed by a variety of people using a variety of techniques. Just must be rare that the risk/reward ratio is not well over 1.

I have general confidence that win/loss outcomes of NHL games, as an example, are not fixed. Same for NBA, NFL, MLB, MSL, etc…. A particular player prop is of course way more vulnerable.

Recently some NFL coaches have been taking the ball first instead of deferring, which has been the SOP last few years. If you KNOW a HC will not defer, and the other HC will defer, that is HUGE info for who might score first.

Did James Woods get pinched in this poker bust? He's got connections.