How a Thunder championship could turn a $100 parlay into $1.7M -- if the bettor keeps his ticket
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How a Thunder championship could turn a $100 parlay into $1.7M -- if the bettor keeps his ticket
Let’s assume you have roughly a 2 percent edge over the casino. That still means the casino will win 49 percent of the time. Therefore, you need to have enough money to withstand any variant swings against you. A rule of thumb is that you should have at least a hundred basic units. Assuming you start with ten thousand dollars, you could comfortably
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... See more(The record for most tables played in an hour is held by the French pro Bertrand Grospellier, popularly known as ElkY. He played sixty-two Sit ’n’ Go tables at once. And he, too, ended in the black.)