Lindgren's $340k Golf Prop Bet Today

[The4Aces]

I wonder if chafing was a problem

[Simo_8ball]

http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/my...ive-erick.html

"Photo of Diora Baird because she is not Erick Lindgren after 72 holes of golf."

[fatshaft]

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The walking = a marathon . Unless he is in world class shape this should have been forseeable.

[/ QUOTE ]1 mile = 1760 yds.

It's not the walking, that's far easier than running that distance, I've done four rounds on 4 different courses in a day, it's the Vegas heat that should have made the difference, walking that far in that heat is good going. Made somewhat (but only somewhat) easier if he was able to come down to 4 or 5 clubs in the bag, and could reload in balls between rounds.

[dnh83]

I'm shocked that he was able to do this. It would have been so much funnier if he had actually collapsed due to heat exhaustion.

[Wowliksom!]

I'm impressed that he actually made it. He doesn't seem to be very fit of what I've seen on TV.

[maryfield48]

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I'm impressed that he actually made it. He doesn't seem to be very fit of what I've seen on TV.

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Quoted for Idiocy.

[BoyChick]

Umm, can he drag his clubs? That would be funny to watch.

[88jayhawks]

"so i texted a friend of mine about what was going on, and sure enough he wanted even more action no questions asked"

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[Johnny Hughes]

Hooray for Lindgren! This is one of those great prop bets that will be talked about and written about for fifty years.

Let me raise a few what ifs? Hypothetical questions based on the usual setup for cons and prop bets. There is usually a cast of characters which might include: the mark, shills, a steer man, and a roper.

This shouts out that Gavin and Eric were working together. First you have to find a big mark. Phil Ivey is perfect because he has the money and will pay off. Often times, big scores were taken from professional gamblers. Titanic Thompson worked gamblers. On the five percent of Amarillo Slim's stories that I believe, he'd go after gamblers. Slim said, "I look for a champion and make a sucker out of him."

If Gavin was shilling, he helped in the talkup. You need a shill partner to talk up a bet. It comforts the mark to know others are betting the same way he is. This goes back to three-card monte and every other scam. When Gavin and Eric were talking a buyout, it was in their best interests.

Here again, I am guessing and wonder if anyone else knocked this off??? I am guessing that Lindgren had done this before to practice and knew he could do it. The best prop bets are sure-things. Actually, nearly all prop bets are sure things. Titanic Thompson traveled with a bowling ball, pool cues, golf clubs..right and left handed, target pistols, horseshoes. He was ambidextrous. He'd beat you right-handed and then bet he could beat you left-handed

You nearly always need a shill, talkup man for sure-thing props. Two barbers I knew were always betting each other on props. Of course, they were in together. They'd bet on whether one could lift these weights ten times. He could or he couldn't depending on which way the outside money was running. I'd set up as early as high school dealing blackjack to a partner, shill. Others join the game.

The play and movie, Guys and Dolls, had a character Sky Masterson based on Titanic Thompson. Sky says something like, "When I left home, my daddy told me, 'Son, someday you will run into a man that wants to bet you he can make the jack of diamonds jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. If you bet with that man, you will end up with an ear full of cider.'"

I wouldn't bet on it but I am guessing Phil Ivey has cider in his ear. They set him up. They took him off. I just love it! They tipped over a sweet score. Stolen fruit tastes so much better.

Johnny Hughes

[MegaFossil]

Props to Lindgren, I didn't think this could be done. The man's obviously a very good athlete.