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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe
I haven't ever bet with a bookie. Is it standard for them to let you run up $4.5M in credit? Or do they only do that when you tell them you know a rich guy you can steal money from? That seems really not smart from the bookie's point of view as it has a major possibility of aiming the authorities right at them.
That's a lot of boxes of ziti
all bookies are credit based, while 4.5m is an absurd amount
having said that, most new accounts are given $100 max bets and $1k total credit to start and generally bump you up as high as $1500 max bet and 10k credit
it's definitely plausible if he had a long history of playing with the guy to the point where he really opened up limits and really began letting him rip
however, the most plausible explanation for those crazy high limits was that it was either ohtani betting directly or Ippei conned the bookie into believing Ohtani was involved
celebrities are often used as beards because bookies tend to think:
a) they are not sharp
b) they have the funds to pay out big losses
c) they'd sooner pay a million dollar loss than risk the negative publicity that would come from it getting exposed
zero chance Ippei earned that level of credit unless he spent a long time establishing a rapport with the guy or the bookie believed Ohtani was involved
ie with Sean Perry now making huge sports bets, the general consensus is that he's leveraged his rich degen idiot status into bearding