Could Biff Tannen Succeed in Today's Sports Betting Market? (2 Viewers)

[emunster18]

In addition to poker on the regular, I occasionally partake in sports betting and sports betting content. Some recent content on winning sports bettors being limited got me thinking about Biff from Back to the Future. He has the results of every sporting event for 50 years and leverages that information into enough money to become the next Steve Wynn.

In the current sports betting landscape, would he be successful? He likely would get limited or banned by sports books all over the country for winning too much. Would he have to resort to becoming a tout? And how many people would believe him when he says that he went 16-0 on last week's NFL slate?

Anyway, stupid random thoughts. Thanks for your attention and/or responses...

 

[WedgeRock]

He would get lured by in-game betting lines and lose whatever he won.

 

[emunster18]

My guess is that he would not be smart enough to lose some parlays on purpose for cover...

 

[JZPdub]

He could just make a single, 20 leg (or however many you need) parlay they paid out like a million to one and put 25 bucks on it.

 

[emunster18]

He could just make a single, 20 leg (or however many you need) parlay they paid out like a million to one and put 25 bucks on it.

Fair.

 

[mdt11]

Biff personally? Probably not, he doesn't seem smart enough to.

Someone with access to Biff's almanac? Absolutely.

Individually, there are plenty of ways to disguise your action, parlays being the main one. He could build up VIP status at all available sportsbooks to him by only playing longshot parlays and losing most or all of them, especially playing sides that don't beat the closing line or major liquid markets right up until the start (betting at 12:45 ET on an NFL Sunday). Even if he is profitable, books would label him a square and offer him higher and higher limits with more and more perks. At which point he could pick a weekend and take them for all they're worth, or continue to squeak out a disguised profit over time (I'd choose the former; less time intensive).

Once he was personally banned from every sportsbook in America and the world, it shouldn't be hard for him at all to build out a network of beards and accounts given his prescience for picking winners. Anyone looking to make some quick cash, especially a whale, would be super easy to talk into joining his partnership given its sterling track record of success.