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Originally Posted by RedLetterman
Re: casinos effing up.
BCLC allowed you a few years ago to bet the over under on NBA games, including preseason exhibition games. It took the BCLC brains a couple of weeks and losses of several hundred thousand dollars before they realized there was little by way of defensive play in preseason. To make matters even more hilarious, when they cutoff betting on the NBA games they stated it was because of money laundering concerns. An intrepid reporter revealed otherwise.
In 1994, BCLC also failed -- for like a week -- to adjust to the fact the NBA moved its 3-point line in by almost two feet. I was 13 years old and caught this.
Unfortunately, I was greedy. Instead of just trying to hit a bunch of 3-game parlays in every direction (not that I would've been bankrolled for that, since I was basically gambling with the allowance my parents gave me), I just played one ridiculous 10-game parlay. One game went under and the ticket lost for what would've certainly been life-changing money for a 7th-grader.