What was your coolest Inside Information bet win?

[Mike_Hunt]

For me it was in college, my buddy played for Oregon State's basketball team.

The Beavs were playing UCLA, and he told me, "Coach Payne said we are going to not even go into our offense until there are 7 or 8 seconds left on the shot clock."

They were going to slow things waaaaaaay down against the powerful Bruins.

So I bet every cent I had on the under, won by like 20 points.

You guys got any stories like this one?

[funkytown]

A buddy of mine helped Jack Morris into a cab at 2:30 in the morning after a night of long island iced teas. He pitched at noon that day. I loaded up on Milwaukee and they scored 11 runs in the top of the 1st.

Also, my cousin is an NL pitcher and I picked him up and took him to a game he was to start in. He was hungover as hell and his wife was threatening divorce. Let's just say I love my cousin, but I love my wallet more. He got slaughtered by Detroit the year they lost a so many games.

[internetdonk]

My cousin is Rex Grossman. In private, he told me he was a fraud as a QB and there was no way in hell he could complete a game without an interception. I bet on INDY..CHA CHING...

[thing85]

Mine would have to be the guy here who had Billy Joel's rehearsal times for the National Anthem. Of course, I only put 1 unit on that bet...

Love you Bill Joel, you're such an amazing singer and could possibly be the next American Idol.

[kaboshedx]

Big Brother...3 I think it was.

Intertops had prop bets every week on who would be kicked out of the house.

I subscribed to the 24 hour live feed, watched it / read transcripts written by people who watched it all day.

Almost every week the houseguest decided who would be voted out before hand, however the edited broadcasts left it completely up in the air. The line was based on the edited broadcasts.

I never lost a bet, bet the max every week and won about 3K that season.

I haven't seen this wager available since. Only longe term bets as to who will win the whole thing.

[Amid Cent]

A couple of seasons ago, one of the online books stopped taking bets on the Amazing Race because of a ton of suspicious betting on one couple. I found out which couple, and bet it on another site at 4-1. Free $$.

[NajdorfDefense]

1997 NCAA tournament.

First round game 13-LIU v 4-Villanova on Friday, LIU is highest scoring team in country, with highest scoring player in country, Charles Jones, who would shoot 37 times v Nova. LIU set the alltime NCAA record with a 117-pt margin of victory that year. Yes, 117.

Nova is top 15 team and darkhorse to win it all [they'd lose next round, ftr to a good Cal team with Tony Gonzalez that almost beat #1 UNC]

O/U was about 158-160. People assumed Nova, as the more skilled team, would slow it down, work it inside, walk the ball upcourt. We were leaning on the Under but had not bet.

Steve Lappas said the night before the game, 'They want to run with us? Let's see if they can run with us, I'm not afraid of [censored] LIU'

We literally RAN to the sportsbook at Caesar's to get down on the Over in size.

'INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Villanova and LIU played a game yesterday unlike any the Lawrence Joel Coliseum had ever seen, a high-flying, trash-talking playground scramble masquerading as an NCAA tournament game.
Villanova jumped on the flying conveyer belt provided by LIU and finally staggered off with a 101-91 victory, advancing to tomorrow's NCAA East Regional second-round game against California.'

[USC@MICH]

I once knew a girl whos husband worked for a buddy of mine. He told me the day before that the husband would be working late the following Tuesday. Thats a "safe " bet there.

[TripleH68]

Local harness racetrack. I am friends with a girl who's father owns horses. I see a horse of his who dropped in class last time out, was running sixth at the top of the stretch and broke stride finishing last.

He pulls me aside and tells me the driver/trainer told him the horse was full of run last race. When he pulled out to make his move the horse stepped on the wheel of the sulky ahead of him and lost his stride. Hello.

Ever wonder why an 8-1 shot gets bet down to 3-1 at the last minute? Of course the horse won for fun.

[beetman]

TheGreek used to take action on Celebrity Boxing, which was pretaped. I made a few bets there when I knew the outcome already.

Whichever year Washington was a #1 seed in the NCAA tourney, a friend of mine got info about 90 minutes before the selection show that Washingotn was getting a #1 seed, and we were able to bet them on Tradesports at something like 20/1 or 25/1 that they'd get a #1 seed.