Yes, Someone Bet $10 On VCU To Win It All

**dfberger23** · 03-30-11, 01:57 PM

Originally posted by milwaukee mike

no way to judge a team??
when they play an easy schedule, and have 4 bad losses on that easy schedule, then they SHOULD AND WILL get judged by those bad losses.

youngstown st's rpi is 296 out of 345. if you can find 3 OTHER TEAMS out of the top 40 in the brackets (seeded 10 or higher) that have a loss to a team that bad i will give you 20 points.

shouldn't be hard to do since ALMOST EVERY tournament team has a loss to a team with an rpi of 296, another to a team ranked 136 and 2 more to a team 94th

Sometimes you lose games, it happens, teams go through a lot during a season. I don't know why you are focusing on a game they lost in early February when they have been unreal in the tournament over the last two years. Clearly it took time for Brad Stevens to make this year's team into a contender, they have won 13 straight.

**Smoke** · 03-30-11, 02:05 PM

Goes to show you just how big the offshore industry is.. Bookmaker payed out 126k to a player and didn't sweat it yet the Hilton is worried about 50k

**BigDofBA** · 03-30-11, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by dfberger23

Maybe that is why 99% of gamblers lose then? Unreal that despite making back to back Final Fours, people still think Butler is nothing because it is not a big name. Butler would easily beat Purdue.

Butler started the year 14-9 with losses to teams like Youngstown State and Wisc-Milwaukee. They are more than capable of losing to Purdue.

Has Butler beat anyone by more than 3 points this tournament? They were lucky to beat Old Dominion.

VCU has a great shot at winning this game. VCU has been beating teams like KU by double digits while Butler has been beating teams by 1 point.

**milwaukee mike** · 03-30-11, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by dfberger23

10 to win 50,000, damn!

He should hedge, VCU won't get past Butler and if they somehow do, no way they get through Kentucky or UConn.

i only focused on it because you were saying vcu won't get past butler and that butler was tougher than uconn/purdue.
we'll agree to disagree, i think butler has been lucky in both tournaments (i think they won 5 of their last 6 tournament games by one possession) and i think vcu should be favored on saturday. but i see your side of the argument too, good luck.

**milwaukee mike** · 03-30-11, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by Smoke

Goes to show you just how big the offshore industry is.. Bookmaker payed out 126k to a player and didn't sweat it yet the Hilton is worried about 50k

sportsbooks in vegas are ridiculous. a lot of them don't see the forest for the trees, they think if they lost money on a game that the CASINO lost money when in reality a lot of the guys that win $1000 on a game take it over to the craps tables and lose it.

**docvinny** · 03-30-11, 02:31 PM

can't imagine the Hilton is sweating 50K

**xyzky** · 03-30-11, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by spankie

Can they hype this up anymore? The Hilton is sweating 50 dimes?

Lol.

THIS...Also, **** the Hilton, they don't like winners...

**spargament** · 03-30-11, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by jjgold

$50,000 is fukkin peanuts

Pinnacle takes $10,000 daily bets all the time OMG what has Vegas come too

more gospel..has to be a publicity stunt at the lvh

**byronbb** · 03-30-11, 02:38 PM

If the Hilton is worried about 50K then Las Vegas is finished.

**Prop Bet Master** · 03-30-11, 02:49 PM

Hard to believe they're making such a big deal about a $10 wager.

**Grits n' Gravy** · 03-30-11, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by purecarnagge

maybe if it was 50 million they would sweat it...but hell they won't even sweat it for 5 million...sure they will notice it and say WTF... but they aren't sweating it...

they would sweat a potential 5 million loss. every property in vegas would from wynn to circus circus. this is all free pub for jay and the hilton.

**robotralph** · 03-30-11, 03:18 PM

uconn gonna take it all imo

**StraitShooter** · 03-30-11, 03:29 PM

Originally posted by d2bets

What about all the losing futures on every other team? Pretty sure they're coming out ahead. Anything to have a story in the paper that shows someone with a chance to "hit it big". Makes for nice headlines and for the droves to come in and bet and lose on their favorite teams in the future.

Mike Colbert, book manager at the M, told the Las Vegas Review Journal that he took some big-money bets on VCU at 16-1 before the Sweet 16.

Must be some big and incredibly dumb money. Let's see:
+200 vs. FSU
+800 (I got it) vs. Kansas
+125 vs. Butler
+200ish in the final
Parlay that shit and you got 181 to 1. And they're sweating "big (dumb) money at 16-1"? Funny chit. If someone bet $1000 on that I wonder how they would feel to know that they gave up $175,000 because they don't know how to wager.

exactly..why the cavs winning straight up last night was almost as big a hit..I ton of money lost on Duke, Kansas etc

**TrapperDapper** · 03-30-11, 03:32 PM

What a beast. Gotta hedge hard now.