Article:Sports Betting Gone Bad

I know in some of my previous posts I’ve mentioned that I don’t bet on sports and I never plan to bet on sports again. It has been nine years (1999) since the last time I made a wager on a professional or any other type of sporting event and I plan to keep it that way. To be honest, I’m no good at picking these games against the line. It seems as though when I don’t place a wager I’m dead-on and when I have placed wagers in the past I couldn’t hit a game if my life literally depended on it. Maybe its the anxiety involved or the amount of pressure with making the correct decisions. On the other hand, it could be the fact that I’m not supposed to bet on sports. Who knows? I enjoy the games enough that I shouldn’t have to place wagers, but I wanted to share this funny but sickening story with my readers.

It started in the 1999 National Championship game between Florida State and Virginia Tech. Critics were talking Virginia Tech, everyone was talking Virginia Tech, and like the wise guy I am I decided to place the biggest wager of my life ($2000) on Florida State. Naturally, I won and proceed to make NBA wagers for the rest of the week and I couldn’t wait for the NFL divisional playoffs to begin. Prior to this Florida State game I had already gone 4 for 4 in the NFL’s wild card weekend so on Tuesday evening (at a poker game) I picked up my envelope which contained a grand total of $5200. At this point I’m a pro and considering I was playing poker full-time at the time I was like Vince Young “cain’t nobody tell me nuthin”. Little did I know, there were about thirteen different occasions where I needed someone to tell me ’sumthin’. Read Full Article...