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| verndogs |
Must have been some scene in Vegas at the end of the Steelers-Chargers game
| quote: | So, you think the end of the Steelers-Chargers game Sunday was confusing for people watching at home? The folks in Las Vegas had it worse — far worse.
“It was chaos,” the prominent professional handicapper Ted Sevransky told me a few minutes after the dust finally cleared, audibly trying to catch his breath. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The closing line at most casinos was the Steelers by 4 1/2 points. So even when Pittsburgh’s field goal with 15 seconds left changed the score from 10-8 Chargers to 11-10 Steelers, the Chargers were still the winners in Las Vegas, on the betting front. Even a successful Hail Mary from San Diego on its one final play wouldn’t change the outcome of those wagers.
But then Philip Rivers threw to LaDainian Tomlinson, who lateraled to Chris Chambers, whose apparent lateral was tipped by Troy Polamalu — who ran it into the end zone for an apparent Pittsburgh touchdown. (Link to NFL.com video here — play begins at 3:46.) All of a sudden it was Steelers 17, Chargers 10. Pittsburgh had covered, 0:00 stood on the clock, and those with Steelers slips went completely berserk.
“I went downstairs and started smashing things,” Sevransky said. He had good reason — his top pick this week was to take the Chargers and the points, and his 100-or-so clients had just lost a bundle on one of the silliest, craziest, how-in-the-world-did-that-happenest bad beats of all time. Sevransky doesn’t disclose his own wagers, but for a professional handicapper like him, chances are it was in the $4,000 to $10,000 range.
“I took an old piece of pottery that was kind of sitting around and made pieces of it against the wall,” Sevransky said. (For the record, he owns.) But then, like everyone else in the pro betting community, Sevransky’s telephone and instant-messaging gizmos started flashing like the Las Vegas strip itself. Apparently that last play was being reviewed. Eyes refocused on the CBS game feed to find out what had happened, but for several minutes little help came. At one point, the referee signaled “touchdown,” only ripping open the wounds again.
A few minutes later, undoubtedly eager to cue up its “60 Minutes” exclusive with the two nobodies named Michelle and Barack Obama, CBS did briefly flash an 11-10 final for a few seconds. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms coughed out some hesitant words under their breath about how the play appeared to have been reversed. But when the network signed off and the “60 Minutes” stopwatch started ticking, confusion still reigned.
“I got a call from a friend of mine that was at the Santa Fe — nobody knew what to do,” Sevransky said of the Santa Fe Station hotel and casino in Las Vegas. “This stuff usually happens very quickly — people know the final score and go up to the window with their winning tickets. This time there was at least a 5-, maybe 10-minute delay for the final score to be posted. For that 10 minutes, you have hundreds and maybe thousands of people in sports books all over Vegas who don’t know if they won or lost — whether they’re eating tonight or not.”
ESPN.com was no help; fans clicking on the scoreboard there for those key few minutes found a 17-10 final posted, but an explanation underneath that the call had been reversed. Talk about having your betting slip and eating it, too.
In the end, word finally whooshed down Las Vegas Boulevard that, yes, the play was reversed — that one of the laterals was in fact an illegal forward pass, meaning the ball was dead at that point, regardless of what Polamalu decided to do with it afterward. The final score was 11-10, period, and only those who had Chargers slips could go to the window for their winnings.
“I can remember some crazy bad beats — when the final play changes things at the last second,” Sevransky said. “And this happens in the N.B.A. from time to time, when a final buzzer shot could get waved off and the final score changes. But after the game, a 10-minute gap trying to figure out what the actual score was? After the game had gone off the air with everyone waiting? I can’t think of a game like that.”
But wait, there’s more. After the game, the referee Scott Green said that Polamalu’s touchdown in fact should have counted, and Pittsburgh should have won, 17-10. But this matter is quite certainly closed with respect to wagering — the league will not change the score, and even if it did, sports books can’t get money back from Chargers bettors they’ve already paid. And they aren’t in the business of paying twice.
“When it comes to the bigger scheme of things, Pittsburgh wins either way,” Sevransky said. “It was irrelevant to the outcome. But to the outcome in Las Vegas, you’re never going to find more chaos.”
In the end, Sevransky’s customers were made whole. No word on the pottery. |
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/...es-vegas-strip/ |
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| chesco |
A mixed weekends betting for me.
Lost £35 over sat and sunday but I redeemed it by winning £216 on a 4 team accumulator tonight..
Stuck another £25 on the midweek international friendlies.
Argentina to beat scotland
hungary to beat n ireland
denmark to beat wales
Holland to beat sweden.
If that comes up then I'm onto a further £290
Much needed win as I stuck my last 25 quid on that bet. |
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| Rodrico |
Ive learn a valuable lesson this NFL season...never bet on the San Diego Chargers or against the Bengals at home unless you want to your pants several times.
So I ended up winning close to $2800 on sunday, which was good since my friday was so bad, I had pretty much lost everything I won earlier in the week. Tonight I was gonna take the Sun +2.5 but was too busy all day to put in the bet. Ill see if I can try to post my picks tomorrow. |
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| Rodrico |
Picked Trailblazers +1 and Wizards +2.5...Ive been super busy past couple days so im not betting hard on these picks, just small bets that im not really thinking about, I like the Trailblazers bet better cause even if they lose the books are really underestimating how good this team is and against other average teams they should really be the favorite.
EDIT: HOLY SMOKES IT 6pm and the line is now at -1.5 for portland, hope you guys got it earlier! |
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| Big blue |
god i am still trying to recover after the fukin stake in ther heart that was the usc stanford game. Thank da lord i wasnt apart of the steeler game or i might have had a coronary. quick recap...
usc is tied in the middle of the 3rd spread usc-24 when the condoms decide to smack my bitch up and basiocally score on every fukin possession. FF to 1::30 usc 45 stanford 17 WHATTA COVER!!!!!! i am like throwing celebrating when stanford marches down to the 20 yrad line with 6 seconds. the field goal team comes out , greatgrandwonderful a win...the carrol calls time out hardick brings out the O and runs a play 5..4...3..TO stanford WHAT DA FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. offense throws the ball and TD stanford busted spread. why on earth do you try to score when your down 28 freakin PTS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
gambull on |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
hungary to beat n ireland |
i just have a gut feeling that's gonna be a draw |
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| Rodrico |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rodrico
Picked Trailblazers +1 and Wizards +2.5...Ive been super busy past couple days so im not betting hard on these picks, just small bets that im not really thinking about, I like the Trailblazers bet better cause even if they lose the books are really underestimating how good this team is and against other average teams they should really be the favorite.
EDIT: HOLY SMOKES IT 6pm and the line is now at -1.5 for portland, hope you guys got it earlier! |
Bah, GSW were playing really good, and blazers were not looking their best, Roy missing his free throws? wtf...impossible. Oden not getting fouled twice in the last few minutes on easy scores...hmm not good at all. Oh well, shake it off..
so far my card tonight is looking like this to make some steps in turning this week into a profit:
NBA-
Cavs ML (yes thats right)
Nuggets -2
Heat -3.5
Blazers ML (dropped 500 to make 250, but atleast it should be in good hands lol)
Gonna small parlay some of these and hope for some good fortune tonight!
PS. That Denver line is moving so crazy right now, I suspect something is going on and Im trying to find out why theyre now at +1...im thinkin to fade this game now, becareful guys.
Edit: Still staying on the Denver play since I havent seen anything different happen, but wish I had waited a bit longer to hit it now, cause the value at +1 is sooo good. |
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| Rodrico |
ahh wtf, they put lakers -3 at home vs the suns tomorrow, but my buddy bet so much that it changed the line to -3.5...now everyone is hitting the lakers line its at -4 :(
Gotta be quicker. |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
denmark to beat wales
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| chesco |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
ouch |
Did not expect that at all..
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| chesco |
Right sports fans, i'm not usually a tipster cos i'm fairly poor at this gambling lark but...
napoli are at home this weekend to cagliari. There isn't usually a surer thing in football than a home napoli win, they are 5 wins from 5 at home already in the league. A half time/full time bet will get you odd's of 11/8.
I'm going for them half time/full time plus, tottenham, reading, dundee united, wolvehampton..
odd's of 12/1. Going to stick £25 on that and hope for the best. |
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| Rodrico |
| alright, so im about to sweat balls on this blazers game, I got some good money riding on these guys moneyline. wish me luck boys! |
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