Bet Bengals

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(07-10-2021, 08:57 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote:

I usually hate betting on my team.  However, in 2011, the Bengals weren't supposed to win a single game.  The odds of them winning the Super Bowl at the start of the preseason (because no OTAs, and the roster only really had the rookie Dalton as the QB) were 1000-1.  I didn't have a ton on it, but when they made the playoffs, I bet heavy the other way (figuring I would still come out way ahead if I had to do the same thing each week up to the Super Bowl, but I made a VERY nice chunk that day.  

And last year, I did a parlay risking something like $25 on the Bengals and Jets to win that week of the steeler game.  Paid out over $800.  Not kidding.  

FWIW, I usually kill the college games and give the money right back on the NFL.  I start each season with around $300-$500 in an account and if I lose it, I don't reload, so I don't start betting more than $25 a game.  Sometimes I have emptied the account in a month.  Sometimes I net out really well.  I think best year ever was several thousand dollars.

Biggest sure-thing bet ever?  I had head they were going to start Akili Smith against the Super Bowl-caliber Buccaneers, and the betting line was Bucs -9 because "Tampa had never won a game below 32 degrees" of something stupid like that.  I had run up my $300 to around $1200 and put the entire thing on the Bucs to cover the spread.  Paid for next year's tickets.