Five personalities who had a serious impact on the sports betting sphere

If somewhere there is a place where all the records of successful people who have ever won sports bets are collected, this is the American city of Las Vegas Nevada. The successes of these individuals amaze the imagination and do not go in comparison with the luck of ordinary citizens.

Today's Las Vegas has serious financial problems and has already lost the title of the main center of the world for sports betting. But all the representatives of gambling still belong to this American city, located in the desert, with huge gratitude.

Here are five personalities who by right will take pride of place in the Hall of Fame sports betting, if it existed. Each of them requires a separate story, but we will limit ourselves to a few lines.

Charles McNeil

Charles McNeil did a lot for sports gambling, although he may not be aware of the most enthusiastic players who have long practiced sports betting. Because he lived long enough, his work began in 1926 as a mathematics teacher in an ordinary school. It was McNeal who came up with odds and the term "point spread", which brought with them revolutionary changes in the world of sports betting.

Prior to McNeil, all sports betting was governed by odds. That sometimes gave results with a coefficient of one to 12, and this had a negative effect on the general interest in rates for similar matches. After work at the school, Charles became an ordinary banker. His life was transformed irreversibly when he decided to go to a baseball game and make a bet. This move led to serious consequences - McNeil left the bank and became the most successful player in Chicago.

His successes so impressed everyone that bookmakers began to ignore his stakes, knowing that he will certainly win. Charles McNeil opened his office and there for the first time showed his own invention - odds. Chicago crime seriously interested in the lucky player and his developments, so for several years, Charles did not accept rates, although he himself still did. As usual - with profit.

Bob Martin
This successful player made bets from an early youth, then began to accept them. He was the best in the field of excitement, but a resonant scandal broke out when the truth about contract matches in student basketball in the middle of the fifties of the last century in which he was implicated was revealed. Martin replaced the city, and elected residence Las Vegas, where he safely escaped from criminal punishment. Here he started to make the coefficients for the main American bookmakers.
Citizens actively used its coefficients, transferred them from one to another at meetings and by telephone. But the criminal prosecution and then got it, in 1977, Bob Martin seized 13 months in prison. In 2001, he went to a different world.

Sonny Reizner

This man led the famous bookmaker Castaways Hole, one of the first to appear in Las Vegas at the beginning of his heyday. His initiatives were very active, Reizner introduced competitions for football betting odds with Castaways Challe. This competition is the forerunner of the modern Hilton Supercontest.

Sonny made an impressive contribution to the development of gambling in Las Vegas. He came up with exclusive contests, not all of which received support in the bookmaker industry.
Reizner not only acted in the gambling of Las Vegas, but also took part in third-party bets on Super Bowl matches. On a pension Sonny left, owning several bets.

Mort Olshan

Mort did much to popularize the bookmaker business, produced periodically interesting publications, where he made a deep analysis of gambling from the inside. And Olshan founded the famous Gold Sheet, which still functions today. Descriptions of games in Mort's texts have become the bible of the industry, have entered the legends. His very presence in this business was a criterion of quality.
Mort Olshan was not just an analyst in the sphere of excitement, but an active player, whose forecasts have always been successful.

Jimmy Barnes

Known in the field of excitement, Jimmy Barnes has had a huge impact on the gaming industry and sports betting. And he did it with the help of printed publications. To begin with, I started publishing a specialized magazine in the 80s of the last century, in which I posted the latest information on the bookmaker business. Barnes became famous not for ordinary, but non-standard news, in which people were not just given information, but also prompted how to bet on this or that game. The magazine's numbers were snapped up in those years, and today they have become rarities. They are very difficult to find, and the magazines are worth a lot of money.

For more than ten years he gave expert work on student basketball, the magazine on gambling began to publish, having moved to Las Vegas. He developed and published a variety of techniques, thanks to which forecasts and rates are being implemented to this day. He owns the method when the player analyzes a particular game in the context of a series of the following. Today, he no longer makes forecasts, retired, but his achievements are still used for successful sports betting.

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