A bet in Florida Superfan on Duke. Now he could win $ 168k on an $ 5 paroy

For many sports bettors, one of the most difficult decisions is to bet with your heart with respect to bets with your head. Blindly indietties your favorite teams of which you have been an irreducible fan for your whole life? Or opt for a different team based on what the numbers say?

Thousands of dolla-which asked to be indicated by his nickname of the college rapper for this story-is a 45 year old who resides in Sant’Agostino, in Florida. He was born in Jacksonville and lived in Florida throughout his life. This includes the frequency and graduation at the University of Florida, following in the footsteps of his mother, father and brothers.

Hard Rock Bet is the only legal sports book that operates in the State of Florida and “Bill” started to place sports bets once the app launched. In terms of betting style, he likes to mix bets and parays. One day, he saw a Parliament of the championship on social media that aroused his interest.

“I thought it seemed a little beautiful and I launched as 10ish of these paroys (on Hard Rock Bet),” said Bill Atletico. “After doing it, I just forgot about them. I just put a couple of dollars on each and I hoped for the best. Two of them are still going.”

The first Funny Lottery Ticket was an $ 5 paroy, five legs that put on May 12, 2024, where the first four have all collected: the Tennessee to win the college World Series (+650), the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series (+300), Ohio State, to win the college playoff (+450) and the Philadia Eagles for Win the Super Bowl (+1600). The final invoice that separates from a payment of $ 168,300 is Duke who wins the national college basketball championship (+1100).

If you were curious about the probability on that parish, it is +3365900 or 33.659 to 1. And, yes, this is its ticket above. Hard Rock Bet confirmed that if Duke won the national title, that paray would have the longest probability of any bet collected in the sports book in 2025.

“I didn’t have a hard rock cash offer when Duke played (Mount St. Mary’s) in the first round,” Bill said. “When they played Baylor in the next round, I didn’t even have an offer. That Sunday was a little stressful because I practically had $ 168,000 on Duke and I had no other option. Some nerves of people are not built for what was happening, and I imagine that mine wasn’t really. I couldn’t sleep for a while.”

A Hard Rock Bet representative said Atletico Which had changed the systems after the paroy had been placed, leading to older bets that did not receive a cash option. For the first time Bill obtained a cash offer on his Hard Rock Bet Parliay on Monday before Sweet 16, and it was when he started to explore coverage opportunities.

He had not published from his X account since he created it (when he was Twitter) in November 2010, but started using him after taking a photo of his betting card and tagged several accounts in the sector, including the first mention of Hard Rock Bet on March 24 on how to get an offer in cash from Sportsbook. This is also how propswap has found, a secondary market for the purchase and sale of sports betting.

“I got in touch with the CEO of (propswap) Luke Pergande, who really helped me in this thing,” said Bill. “I didn’t know what the fair market value could be for something like that. So I had to get an esteemed value for this paray. I ended up taking about half offered after the taxes that I was returning from hard rock and I kept half the bet.”

Bill sold 50 percent of his paroy for $ 20,250 on Propswap on March 29, in view of Duke’s elite trip against Alabama. After getting something for his Parliay instead of potentially moving away with nothing, Bill also wanted to prepare to cover the other half of his paroy if Duke ends up facing his Alma Mater, Florida, in the match of the national championship. Why? So he can “cheer for good guys”.

Since there was no Florida professional basketball team nearby in its early childhood years, Bill is a huge supporter of football and basketball from the University of Florida, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Knicks. However, the Gators will always be his flagship team. Bill was willing to include the Rivale Tennessee in his championship parliay because he did not follow the baseball of the college up close, and thought that the probability were attractive for seed n. 1 in the college’s world series. On the contrary, he says he will never include Tennessee for football or basketball.

His other remarkable bet he still has around is a four -legged four -legged championship parish of $ 6.34, with the legs of the Ohio State and Eagles already collected. Duke to win the NCAA tournament is the third stage and the last part is the Thunder of Oklahoma City which ensures the NBA championship (+750). That paray has a probability of +747900 and would pay $ 52,164.89. Bill claims to have no interest in making an offer in cash for that paroy and is allowing him to ride. For what is worth, the Thunders are currently the favorites to win the NBA title in Betmgm at +175.

How about include your favorite teams on these types of Parlias in the future? He also checked that box, since he currently has a Florida College basketball title and the NBA Knicks Parliay championship riding four figures. He is also trying to find a way to include the Florida Dj Lagway quarterback to win Heisman in a parliay. But there are always exceptions.

“I would never have put the jaguars in anything in my life.”

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