What's the best inside betting information you ever got?

I had a buddy that was an assistant for a local College basketball team.  They had one player that was leading the team in scoring and Vegas made them a -14 point favorite.  The day before the game he was busted for a domestic dispute with girlfriend and was not able to travel to the game the following night. Needless to say my buddy told me to pound the other team.  I did.  Vegas never got wind of the players trouble and the lost by 40 that night.  Every now and then it is nice to stick it to them.

What is your best inside info you ever received?

Before my uncle passed away he told me to stay away the booky. I should have listened

A lot of us here on covers gets a phone call telling us what the play is.

The sad thing is that when these people get hot for a short period of time, a lot of idiots here call him/her the best "capper" on the board.

I used to work for a book who spent some time at Bayside State Prison. He was in a cell block with a guy who had connections with horses at the Jersey tracks. We would get calls from the guy that only said the name of the horse and nothing else. Classic. Very very good summer for us. Unfortunately the calls just stopped one day.

Plastics................

The Rams suck shit.

What's the best inside betting information you ever got


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Just a little over 20 years ago, a buddy of mine was a police officer and he arrested a guy who was involved with harness racing. The guy told him that they had a winner coming up the next night at the track. Sure enough the horse won and paid $94 for a $1 bet. 

 you only bet a dollar you cheap bastard?? 

 my apologies, i misread. 

my buddies friend is a bookie, his dad is friends with herschel walker and every year he tells us the heisman trophy winner, first time he told me was 6 years ago and hes 6 for 6.  nice way to grab some free money 1 day outta the year.

Harness Racing

Many years ago, Yonkers, NY.  This guy owed me a favor but I hadn't heard from him in almost a year.  His brother was a jockey at Yonkers and claimed they fixed races a few times each season.

Sure enough, he calls me one morning and tells me to bet the #1 horse in a race that night.  I phoned two of my degenerate working buddies and we all called in sick that night and headed for the teletrack.

This horse was supposed to go off at 25-1 but was bet down to 10-1.  The #2 horse gets scratched just before the post and we're a little spooked at this point.  The odds continue to drop to 4-1 (the word must have really been out, lol).

This #1 horse shoots out of the gate like a rocket on the rail, #3 riding shotgun for him the entire race, nobody could get around the two of them, it was a perfect wire-to-wire Harness fix.

We only won $500 each, but it was nice to be on "the inside".

Never heard from the guy again.

lost by 3 

lol, just got the call.

I don't even think he claimed to be a teller did he? He would just eavesdrop

I was sitting in a harness racetrack on a fri night.I was sitting with a guy who use to work at this track as a teller but had left to go work in Florida and was back to see family.As we were sitting there the president of the board walked by and recognized my friend. He shook his hand and asked him all the pleasentries. As he was leaving he reached down and took the entries sheet off the table. He circled a horse in each of the races and handed it to him.The first race had already run but he won the 2nd,3rd,4th before we believed what we had.We bet the 5th-9th and some won by 5lengths and some won by a head but he had the winner in every one.This only made me personally reluctent to ever bet harness again.

used to get the daily call from good ole Petey Rose

he used to call his plays the Red Rose Special or the Petey Crack Corn Winner

no big deal, won a couple hundred thousand with him

Before Delaware voted in the slots,they used to run donkeys disguised as thoroughbreds at Delaware Park.At a 4th of July cookout,I met a jockey who used to ride there named Russell Woolsey?He kept repeating to me that he was on a pretty good horse the following day.As I skimmed over the racing form,I didn't see anything that would lead me to believe that this horse, "Heart To Hold" was anything special.Workout times were so-so,was moving up in class,hasn't won a race in 4 races etc etc etc. NOTHING! I did however notice that the form had this horse @ 16to1.As I found myself at the track the next day,I decided "What the hell"  I'll put a few bucks on this horse.The odds came down to 9 to1 as the race started.Wire to wire.. not even close.Dam shame I only put $20 to win on it.I was given a gift.... I didn't take full advantage of it.... friggin idiot

JoeBren Sports and his in-depth analysis of the long snapper.

My buddy in Ma called me once and told me that Nomar Garciaparra was out with a chick one of his friends knows. It turns out she boinked the crap out of poor Nomar all night long into the next day.
My buddy said to bet the Red Sox the next night at home. That was the game Nomar knocked in 10 runs by himself. Gotta love chicks from Saugus, Ma.

that "gambling money has no home, lose it one day, make it the next, screw it they print that stuff everyday...send it in while you got it"