Bar Loses Over $4,100 To Customers Because The Heat Lost

[bobbyfk]

http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/bar-loses-over-4100-to-customers-because-the-heat-lost/

The owner of Whiskey Tango All American Bar & Grill in Los Angeles is out $4,100 dollars after the Miami Heat lost to the Boston Celtics last night. The bar offered a pretty straightforward deal: if the Heat lose, it pays for your tab (up to $25). Even after last night, the bar is keeping the deal in place. It’s a clever way to boost business–if the Heat start winning. In other Heat news, the “NBA on TNT” had the most successful opening night ever for a regular season game on cable. Here are what the numbers looked like:

The opening game, featuring the Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics, earned a 4.6 US rating and delivered 7,433,000 total viewers and 5,339,000 households, making it the most watched regular season NBA game on cable of all-time (topping the Chicago Bulls vs. LA Lakers on Feb. 2, 1996).

TNT owes Pat Riley a big thank you very much.

[Fishhead]

....I watched BSU-LT

[WeinketoWarrick]

they'll make money off this in the long-term...

[Skidcom]

Cool promotion. Hope it spreads to other towns

[seaborneq]

I hope the bar loses so much it folds. The Heat are not a superteam.............yet.

[Mac4Lyfe]

This bet won't last long when the Heat go 0.500 in their first 10 games. They might as well close the doors against Orlando. That's a free meal.

[teaserpleaser]

Owner said he ended up way ahead on that promo so he loves it will keep it going.

[unusialsusp5]

great promotion but dui arrests will go up.

[james4512]

Best idea ever let's be honest. People will be like it covers my first $25 so I can spend an extra $25 and every drink at the bar is like 300% profit so they are still making a killing and on top of that it's drawing in more people

[Cookie Monster]

And the owner is betting the other team on the Moneyline if he is risk adverse. So, he ends always ahead.

[JerseyLove]

wow that is amazing my friend

[Money]

another requirement is you have to be at the bar amd open your tab before game starts. He said 164 took advantage of deal but there were over 400 there.

[Goose-Juice]

my kind of joint.

[dherd]

i need to move to la.

[d2bets]

When does tab end? Can you continue through the end of the game? I mean, if the Heat are down 15 at the half like against Boston can you just start piling it on? Do you have to drink it all their or can you order bottles? This has potential!

[beach nut]

Cool promotion.

[ProfaneReality]

Could you imagine if Fishhead lived in Miami ? He would be going to this bar every game, making sure to run up tabs to 24.98, and he would be calling in halftime bets to hedge, scalp and/or middle this promotion

[ZetaPsi808]

bobby its alright pal i called the whiskey tango owner on monday night and advised him to place a sizeable wager on celtics ML. guy had about 2k on them, so the overall damage was not too bad.

[DwightShrute]

maybe the guy is smart. He figures I can lose 4 or 5K so he calls his bookie and puts 5k on the Celtics

Great hedge

[stealthyburrito]

maybe the guy is smart. He figures I can lose 4 or 5K so he calls his bookie and puts 5k on the Celtics

Great hedge

guy is a genius.