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When the Vegas Golden Knights play at home,
the betting handle at Las Vegas sports books
is equivalent to mid-sized NFL games, so says
Westgate sports book manager Ed Salmons.

Victor Espinoza

Eleventh child of a dozen-full team,
that kid who was thrown by his family's mule.
Then at the tender age of seventeen,
got a job driving a bus in Mexico's capital town,
to pay for lessons at a jockey school.
And many a year later, Victor would be
the oldest jock to win The Derby,
and 1st Latino to win the Triple Crown.

Family members living in Vegas mostly went in for $20,
but some took the plunge for $100 = $25k w/ LVGK
winning The Cup.

Bandied about is LVGK winning Lord Stanley's spells
the worst hockey loss of all time for Vegas Books...

HITCHCOCK, CHICAGO & CUBS

On 30 Dec '17 at Gulfstream Park:  
Durocher beat Mr. Cub,
won the Tropical Park Derby; Quinella paid a tad over $600.
With stats so alike, sometimes one plays a hunch on Names.

Hitchcock's play "The Photographer and The Undertaker"
(15 March '65) had Alfred's introductory vignette: Alfred
was an American football player... Then the play begins
and the 1st thing heard is a TV with an auditory account
of a baseball game, the play-by-play announcer describes
"There's a basehit by RIZZO"
and immediately thereafter the announcer exclaims in joy,
"there's a hit by BRYANT. "

All the while, the biggest "hit" (bump-off, rub-out, knock-
off, or "nullification" as termed w/i made-for-TV production)
is taking place, as ordered by "The Head Office in Chicago."

Today's Cubs have both Bryant & Rizzo hitting back-to-back !!

Very prescient of Hitchcock, and not the only occasion where
Hitch showed us the future.  In early 1945, Hitch's script used
'Uranium for an A-Bomb' as his "MacGuffin" - which was way
before any A-bomb was ever used; later on dropped on Japan!

Hitchcock also had the goods on the then top-gun Director
of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.  Hitch caught Hoover on film
that Hitch owned and kept in Britain.  J. Edgar Hoover was
in drag, looking like a woman with a woman's hairstyle,
wearing a ladies dress and nylons and wearing womanly
cosmetics including false eye-lashes.  FBI Director Reno
changed his name to "Janet" & only played as a tranny-lass.
How soon will we get a load of  James B. Cumey queerness?

'Gronkowki' was scratched, as was
#23 Lebron-Afro so Auto-TRUMP-hater

"Curse Of Apollo" lifted after 136 years!!

The 144th running of the Kentucky Derby
was the wettest derby on record,
but Justify, the favorite, broke thru the
136 years of history of the “curse of Apollo.”
which is how this long streak of futility has
come to be known — no horse had won
the Derby without having raced as a
2-year-old since Apollo did it in 1882.

Justify looked so much bigger & stronger
than the other 19 entries in the race, that
it is hard not to envision his Triple Crown.

Justify had enough speed to take control of
the race, and Bob Baffert & jock Mike Smith
opted to rate him just off the other front-
runners drawn to his inside – Promises
Fulfilled and Flameaway.

Justify makes it the 6th in-a-row
chalk winner of The Run For The Roses.

Las Vegas bettor wins $150K on a $500 Kentucky Derby futures wager

A Wynn Las Vegas bettor won $150,000 on a $500 futures bet placed on Justify at 300-1 odds in February to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby.

A Las Vegas bettor won $150,000 on
her $500 futures bet placed on Justify
to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
She got Baffert's big bully at 300-1 odds
in early February at the sportsbook in
The Wynn.

She's also a KVGK bet at 500-1 riding.

If she wins her 2 Wynn bets,
she'll pocket $450k. She's a
supervisor of telemarketers.

KYDerby final note...
Opening future book prices
at (Johnny Avello's) Wynn racebook
for the top three finishers:
Justify 300-1,
Good Magic 100-1,
Audible 200-1

HUGE DAY IN SPORTS !!!!!

Supreme Court ruling today, 14 May 2018,
lets legal sportsbooks to begin operations
throughout the USA; it had previously only
been allowed in grandfathered-in states:
 Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, & Montana.

Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for New Jersey's
challenge to sports betting ban, & struck
down the 1993 (25 y.o.) federal law that
prohibited sports betting outside Nevada:
Ruling lets other states set up sports
books as source of gov't revenue.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/sports-betting-ncaa-supreme-court/index.html

30 minutes ago...
Supreme Court's ruling lets one get any winnings easier..
but now there will be the paying of taxes
and most likely there'll be higher vigorish.

The Trend
is your friend.

Still,

He who gambles
lives in shambles.

Mayweather has always said his wealth didn’t come from luck.

But does hard work & dedication apply to video poker?

There was some luck on his side for his latest winnings.

Mayweather collected $101,250 playing on a “Ten Play Draw Poker” machine on Sunday in Las Vegas. The 50-0 boxer announced his six-figure jackpot on his Instagram account, although he did not name the casino.

Mayweather probably didn’t cash his winning ticket and  just tossed it in a drawer along with with his nine-figure checks from fighting Manny Pacquiao and The Notorious Conor McGregor.

Life is lucky as a black MoFo for “Money May.”

If other markets have sports betting,
how can Nevada still be ostracized?

Las Vegas Events submitted proposals to host NCAA chapionships
for a men’s basketball regional, a men’s ice hockey Frozen Four,
and the national wrestling meet for 2019 to 2023, but the
NCAA Board of Governors didn’t even look at the bids.

But now bids will once again be submitted for the same 3 events
for the 2023 to 2027 cycle. Separate efforts will be made to attract a
Final Four, as awarded through 2022.
Las Vegas’ has had success in annually hosting 7 men’s & women’s
conference basketball tournaments. The Pac-12 Conference women
will join the men here next year.

Conference tournaments have been allowed to take place in Vegas
b/c the NCAA leaves site decisions up to the leagues themselves.

The presence of major pro sports in Vegas could help the city’s case.
The NHL was 1st of the 4 major sports leagues to put a team in Vegas.
 In 2 years, the NFL’s Oakland Raiders move into a new stadium near
The Strip.

Those can only help Vegas' argument, especially the tremendous
acceptance that the Golden Knights have had here.

NCAA’s current policy =
“No pre-determined or non-predetermined session of an
NCAA Championship may be conducted in a state with
legal wagering that is based on single-game betting on
the outcome of any event in a sport in which the
NCAA conducts a championship.”

According to official NHL's stats —
when the conference final/semifinal
is tied at 1 game apiece, the winner
of Game #3 holds an all-time series
record of 35-8 (since '74-75 season).

After the Golden Knights dumped the Winnipeg Jets 4-2
in Game Three, offered at (+183) making them the Fav.!

Vegas started out as (+20000) long shots to win it all —
if they do, they'll become the first expansion team ever
to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup trophy. 

Conversely, Winni took the tumble on the oddsboard —
now being offered at (+405).

Game Four of the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Western Conference Final is this Friday.

72 Wilt loses a bet to lakers teammates.
2 touched top of backboard square with palm. One came close.

Wilt had a 48 inch vertiucal jump at age 36
Jerry West 39.5"

In comparison to modern stats:
Westbrook 36.5
Kobe 38
Durant 33.5
Donte DiVincenzo 44
Lebron 44
MJ 48
Steph Curry 35.5
Shaq 32
Bird 28
Magic 30

From one GOAT on another GOAT:

Wilt Chamberlain on those players who disrespect M. Jordan
goes "You should be given 10 % of your paycheck to
 @Jumpman23. Owners too.
He made basketball so much money that @SteveKerr
can coach 5 good players because the salary cap ends
up at $100 million from where it was at $14M."

GS vs. Cavs - Part IV

The vast majority of the viewing public fails 'GS vs. Cavs - Part IV.'
Even if the series, and each & every matchup, was a Pick 'Em price
- which this NBA Finals is not close to being; it's so badly lopsided
its no-way a "must watch."  GSW (-1000) vs. Cavs (+725) in 2018.
If one bets such a crappy contest,  then the most one can invest in
terms of one's time is to wake up the next day, scan the results and
utter  "Ho-hum: They won / They lost."
But since the NBA knows via Nielsen's, advertisers' projections, etc.
that their arranged 'GS vs. Cavs - Part IV' must also be arranged to
be at worst a 'Gentleman's Sweep' = Won in 5, the wagerer's only
question to be answered is "Will the Cavs win Game #1, #3, or #4?

One can compare the built-in boredom of this 4th-in-a-row series
to an MLB World Series of the same 2 teams for 4 straight years,
even Cubs v. Clev grows old & stale after a repeat, hurting MLB;
NHL's Stanley Cup Final of the Hawks vs. Bruins 4 yrs in-a-row
= BORING BEYOND BELIEF.

GS (-12) in Game#1 = largest spread in a Finals game since 1991,
(ESPN Stats & Info); Cavs = Biggest Finals dog in nearly 30 yrs
« "Kyrie kept GS off-balance; he allowed us to go 1-on-1 against
mismatches and can’t nobody stop him one-on-one,” Lue said.
“We gone miss that."

GSW = biggest Finals-fav in past 16 years, per historical data
compiled by SportsOddsHistory.com; previous high = 2002,
LAL (-750) Vs. Nets (LAL swept Nets);
Cavs (+650) ML-dogs, longest odds of any James's team in his
9 NBA Finals; previous high = 1st Finals trip in '07 (+350) dog
vs SA who swept in 4.  James' 9 Finals teams opened as favs 2x:
Heat (-220) in '13 [WON],
& Miami '11 (-175) [LOST to Mavs in 6].

His neck tatts tie in with his everyday pot-smoking:
Jelf-Retarded.