Short, interesting Las Vegas sports betting method article

Short, interesting Las Vegas sports betting method article [url]https://www.gamingtoday.com/articles/article/25327-Mr_Big[/url]

Guessing Mayweather is one of the beards. He bets really big, supposedly with great success.

seems to me i remember around super bowl that many guessed pil ivey was part of the bw crew..........

Kind of weak of Roberts not to mention Michael Konik's book, The Smart Money, which is where he got this from. By the way, we did a piece in LVA a couple years back breaking all of the code names of the players in that book.

[QUOTE=anthony;21570]Kind of weak of Roberts not to mention Michael Konik's book, The Smart Money, which is where he got this from. By the way, we did a piece in LVA a couple years back breaking all of the code names of the players in that book.[/QUOTE] Anthony, can you post that LVA piece for the Board. I'd love to read it. Thanks!

This is how we wrote it (it was a Q&A) in March 2007. We've since confirmed that we were likely correct across the board. Question: Can you tell us anything about the real-life identities of the characters in Michael Konik’s The Smart Money? Who are Big Daddy, Beefcake, etc.? I’m dying to know. LVA: A lot of people are wondering, including us. But we’ve got a pretty good idea about most of them, especially the industry guys, as the field wasn’t that big during the time that the book takes place. Rick “Big Daddy” Matthews is, without question, Billy Walters. Others we’d be willing to bet on are Eric “Jox” Brijox being Michael “Roxy” Roxborough and Moe Farakis of the Las Vegas Hilton being Art Manteris. Stevie “the Pencil” Masters is most likely Rich Baccilieri, now the head guy at the Palms and Nick Cerruto is Chuck Esposito, now the head guy at Caesars. As for the celebrities, they’re a little tougher and we don’t know for sure. But a lot of people in the late-’90s sports-betting scene of which Konik writes in Smart Money have tried to peg these personalities, and here are our best guesses. Captain Beefcake is Bruce Willis and Heartthrob is Ben Affleck. Both guys’ Vegas profiles seem to fit the descriptions. Boy Wonder is problematic, but he would seem to come out of the group of young Hollywooders who hang in the Danny Masterson group, but not Danny. Our guess, and this ties into the Bruce Willis connection, is Ashton Kutcher.

Thanks! [QUOTE=anthony;21573]This is how we wrote it (it was a Q&A) in March 2007. We've since confirmed that we were likely correct across the board. Question: Can you tell us anything about the real-life identities of the characters in Michael Konik’s The Smart Money? Who are Big Daddy, Beefcake, etc.? I’m dying to know. LVA: A lot of people are wondering, including us. But we’ve got a pretty good idea about most of them, especially the industry guys, as the field wasn’t that big during the time that the book takes place. Rick “Big Daddy” Matthews is, without question, Billy Walters. Others we’d be willing to bet on are Eric “Jox” Brijox being Michael “Roxy” Roxborough and Moe Farakis of the Las Vegas Hilton being Art Manteris. Stevie “the Pencil” Masters is most likely Rich Baccilieri, now the head guy at the Palms and Nick Cerruto is Chuck Esposito, now the head guy at Caesars. As for the celebrities, they’re a little tougher and we don’t know for sure. But a lot of people in the late-’90s sports-betting scene of which Konik writes in Smart Money have tried to peg these personalities, and here are our best guesses. Captain Beefcake is Bruce Willis and Heartthrob is Ben Affleck. Both guys’ Vegas profiles seem to fit the descriptions. Boy Wonder is problematic, but he would seem to come out of the group of young Hollywooders who hang in the Danny Masterson group, but not Danny. Our guess, and this ties into the Bruce Willis connection, is Ashton Kutcher.[/QUOTE] That is most interesting! Thanks!

nice thread - yeah bruce was a huge bettor alright - bet with one of the places in costa rica would often use up his 1.5m credit line for the first slate of early saturday football games alone

[QUOTE=costar;21578]nice thread - yeah bruce was a huge bettor alright - bet with one of the places in costa rica would often use up his 1.5m credit line for the first slate of early saturday football games alone[/QUOTE] I hear he is not popular with cocktail waitresses tho

A little bonus coverage on Willis from a sidebar called "King George" in Max Rubin's Comp City. On the other side of the tip equation is legendary Action Hero Bruce Willis, who was a bartender before becoming one of the most successful (and wealthy) screen actors of our time. Funny thing, though: When the cocktail waitresses serve him a drink, he doesn’t give up spit. Sadly, for him, they do. It all began back in the early ’90s at a luxury Las Vegas casino that I can’t mention (but it rhymes with “Garage”), when waitresses began referring to stiffs as “Bruces.” And when they wouldn’t get a tip, they’d call it a Bruce, as in “Wow, what’d that high roller give you?” “A Bruce.” “Oh, Sorry.” One of the most reviled men ever to darken a blackjack pit, his name soon evolved into a verb, as in “I been Bruced.” Then the wheels got turning and the girls decided that Mr. Willis should get more than the plain sparkling waters he’s so fond of (he gave up the sauce long ago). For the past decade or so, up and down the Vegas Strip, his natural bubbling elixirs have been enhanced with exotic flavorings from a variety of, um, female body fluids that seem to slip past his high-falutin’ palate. Several informed sources have told me that Bruce no longer “bruces.” If it’s true (and certainly good news for Bruce and his servers alike), Strip cocktail waitress may have to come up with a new catch phrase for players with short arms and deep pockets. Check out the list below, see if you can guess who the best of the worst are, and maybe you can predict what the newest derogatory verb for a stiff will be. My personal favorite would be, “I’ve been OJ’d.” (See the Appendix for more info on celebrity stiffs and Georges.)