The most UPSET Ive been while gambling!!

How¡¯s this for a bad beat?   It was from 1998.  I was in Vegas with Tom from work. Our last night I bet a 6 team parlay that included 2 ML dogs. Its was $50 to win $3400.00.  We went to a strip bar and were watching the ladies and the games.  I saw that I was 4-0 and the Braves were up 5-1 heading into the 8^th and I had under 9. Nice total with a Tom Glavine in his hay day on the hill.  The only other game I was sweating was a west coast hockey game that went OT.  The strippers were getting pissed because everyone was watching the TV¡¯s to get scores so they turned them off.  I was game for 2 more $20.00 lap dances from this statuesque 6¡¯ tall blonde stripper with some nice bolt on¡¯s and finally had to get somewhere to find the scores.  I cabbed it to the Imperial Palace to find the score of the hockey game, because I just knew the Braves game would stay under. I sprint upstairs to the sports book to check out the old grease board they use to post the lines and the scores. And there it was my team (cant recall who) with the overtime win. I turned to give my buddy a rousing high five as we were going to gamble it up the rest of the night and catch our 7 am flight with no sleep.  As I did that the 12-2 Braves score passed by my vision.  My buddy saw the look in my eyes and knew it was bad. The sportsbook was closed by this time so I went down to the casino and gave my ticket to the cashier hoping a mistake was made¡­nope¡­loser.  Frustrated I reached into my pocket and found 4 $100 bills. I went to the $100.00 black jack table and sat down for what I would term grudge betting.  Let it be known that I¡¯m more of the $5.00 black jack player maybe stepping up to $25 on occasion. Needless to say I lost 4 straight hands and was in bed with in 10 minutes.

Now I know for a ¡°big shooter¡± like big kat and the make believe world that he gambles in this isn¡¯t much money but believe me, to most of us that hang out on covers, that is real money and a total kick in the teeth. I just wanted to share that with some fellow gamblers. It still eats at me after 11 years!

Here is the line score from my most hated baseball game of all time.  Just a regular Tuesday game in April. FU Bobby Cox!

                1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E

                -  -  -   -  -  -   -  -  -    -  -  -

Braves          1  0  0   0  2  2   0  3  4   12 18  0

Diamondbacks    0  0  0   0  0  0   1  1  0    2  6  1