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Originally Posted by newBreed
Haralabob said that in '07 before the NBA playoffs started that Lindgren asked him if he had any tips for the first round. Bob told him to put a good chunk on the 8 seed Warriors over the top-seeded Mavs. Lindgren told him he actually liked the Mavs side and put a big chunk on them.
Well, Bob isn't the best NBA bettor in the world for nothing.
On another thread they're attacking coltranedog as exaggerating or making-up a good chunk of his betting history - including the original "all-in" $75K futures bet on the Lakers that got him started as a pro with half-million bankroll.
hbob offers a spirited & believable defense , including this :
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Betting is a pain in the ass nowadays, I've been stiffed, slow paid and hustled for more money than most of you guys will see in your lifetime. I had a "pro poker player" who bearded me into the best book in the world, paid me the first 2m that I won and then who managed to lose 9-10m to the bookie betting his own stuff and wasn't able to pay me the remaining balance I'm owed.
Speculation : the "pro poker player" is Lindgren.
But if true this casts Lindgren's debts to Voulgaris in a more grayscale colorway. Specifically, if Harabolos decided to take advantage of Lindgren's rep as a sports degen and use him as a beard to establish huge credit-lines at big books that would refuse Voulgaris, and then Erick degen'd so much of his own loot that his credit-line maxed and there was no way to get the funds to pay Harabobs' winners, the arrangement does smell a bit like no honor among thieves.
I know there are those who will vehemently argue against this : likely Lindgren was paid a fee, or at the very least knowledge of Voulgaris' picks was reward enough, and therefore had a fiduciary duty to complete the transactions without risk of sinking his credit-line to the point where the book wouldn't pay-off winners or extend cash loans.
But I can't help think there's more to the story than just edog is a bad person who screwed everyone.