This is a hilarious article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ing/948611001/

It's about Rob Gorodetsky, a 25-year-old, douchey sportsbetting degenerate (and sometimes poker player) who bets huge, claims to crush casinos, lives a super-extravagant lifestyle, and has now embarrassed various professional athletes.

Basically this appears to be a rich kid who lives large and claims it's from an amazing feel for high stakes sportsbetting -- even though he concedes he knows very little about some of the games where he bets $100k or more.

Here he is wearing a $6,000 Louis Vuitton hoodie:



While losing "professional gamblers" who are rich from other sources having been posing as winners for decades, this one takes a more interesting turn because Gorodetsky has managed to befriend and bamboozle various professional athletes.

In the above interview with USA Today, Gorodetsky told various stories about famous athletes who became interested in his sportsbetting prowess, and were dumb enough to believe that he was really some sports prodigy, and wanted in on his action.

Odell Beckham Jr was named, and is now in a panic because the NFL forbids players from betting on any professional sport, and Gorodetsky claims that OBJ asked him to place a $20k wager on baseball (which ultimately ended up not being placed). OBJ denied knowing Gorodetsky, which seems like BS, given the evidence presented in the USA Today article.

He also hung out with Lakers rookie Kyle Kuzma, who now also denies knowing him.

He played high stakes poker at the Wynn with Russell Westbrook, who has "no comment".

He showed texts he had with Damon Jones, the shooting coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was giving Jones baseball picks.

He also claimed that musician Drake was briefly friends with him, and once wired $100,000 to him in Vegas to use for gambling.

This guy has very few tournament results -- only 6 lifetime cashes -- though his last one was 2 years ago at the Pokerstars PCA $25k High Roller, where he got 10th for $98k.

I give just about a 0.0% chance that this guy is actually a winning sportsbettor. He posted a single financial statement from William Hill showing that he made $26 million in bets and profited $245,000, but will not show any other statements from any other book, which is highly suspect. It's likely that William Hill was the only book where he managed to eke out a win.

It's also a fact that getting action is very tough in Vegas if it is suspected you are a +EV sportsbettor. You can stay under the radar by placing $1k type bets, but if you are consistently betting big and killing the books, they will often cut you off -- especially if it seems like you know what you're doing

Gorodetsky claims to win 60-65% of his sports bets, which is highly unlikely. However, if you bet with any volume, and you're not carefully analyzing the games you're betting, then it actually is close to impossible. For reference, I am a 61.38% NBA bettor this year after 147 picks. However, I am carefully focused on just one sport and closely analyzing each game, and even with that, I don't think 61% is sustainable in the long run. Gorodetsky has been doing this for 4 years (presumably making far more bets than my 147), and admits he's just doing it by feel. Also, if he were hitting 65%, he would be winning at almost every book, and could present proof of more than just one.

In addition, even if we want to take his William Hill account as typical, that would still just be an 0.9% return on investment -- far lower than one would expect for a 65% winner on sides bets.

Anyway, go read the article if you want a good laugh.