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The SuperContest winner had two entries and ended up winning with the one where he faded his best 5 picks in Week 17.
The craziest part of Graham’s victory (as if all of the above wasn’t enough) was that both of his entries were tied for fourth place entering Week 17. He decided to go with opposite sides of five different games.
“I had seen how the Janknation & Mark Davis entries [another SuperContestant with two entries, who was among the leaders most of the season] had continued to play the same exact games on both of his tickets and how he dropped from second place to out of the money,” he said, “so that had a big-time influence on how I played the final week.”
He put his five best bets — Houston +3 at Tennessee, Buffalo -3.5 at New York, Baltimore +2 at Cincinnati, Dallas +4 at Philadelphia and Miami +9.5 at New England — on the pops3284 entry and the opposite plays on his pops2008 card. When his top plays went 0-5, the pops2008 entry ended up 5-0 and took over the lead.
“I wanted to protect my entries as much as possible to maximize my profits,” Graham said. “I knew the worst I could do was 2-2-1 on both tickets and would probably go 3-2 and 2-3, but I knew I had a chance to get lucky if one of them went 5-0. I just thought it would be the other entry.
“I’ve never been happier to be wrong about anything in my whole life.”
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case on repealing PASPA and sports betting legalization.
The key, for both groups, is to convince the court that this time it’s different. Perhaps more daunting is the fact that legalization of sports betting is hardly likely to be a court priority. Therefore, the pitches are that there are fundamental Constitutional questions of the amount of power Congress has that must be addressed immediately.
Legal Sports Report published an article about why New York is interested in changing the federal sports betting laws.
We’re reportedly a month away from New York starting down the road that New Jersey has unsuccessfully traveled when it comes to sports betting. A bill that would legalize NY sports betting will be introduced next month, according to GamblingCompliance.
The NJ sports betting case — in which the state has challenged the federal sports betting prohibition (PASPA) is being appealed to the US Supreme Court.
At least one lawmaker in NY is also eager to also challenge the law that stops single-game sports wagering outside of Nevada sports betting establishments. The reason is likely tied to the plight of racetracks in New York and beyond.
Two more Mississippi men were charged for their participation in an online sports betting operation.
Both traveled to Costa Rica on April 24, 2014, to deliver a payment to the person who set up gambling websites for illegal sports books, the charging documents said.
The bets primarily involved football, according to court documents.
Online sports betting is not illegal in Costa Rica. But it is in the United States.