I just want to say this now that the series has ended.
The last show really exposed these touts as total frauds. (not that we didn't know this but I have to elaborate).
Let's focus on the obese guy Skip.
He was the #1 guy pushing picks over the phone to hundreds and hundreds of buyers, news and long-timers.
And all year they showed him talking on the phone like he knew about the games he was touting:
"This is THE game! This is THE ONE! You have to go BIG on this one!"
So you'd think he knew what he was doing when he took Oregon laying 19 or North Texas laying 12, and he knew, with those obscure bets, what he was talking about and the chalk he was laying (and he always laid serious chalk save one miracle comeback on the Pats +1.5 over Denver).
So in the final episode (or second to last it doesn't matter which), they had a $5,000 "Gamble off".
Each started with $1,000 and whoever had the most at the end won (who cares about the rules, that was the gist of it).
They could play any casino game.
If you gave me $1,000 I would rush headlong to the sportsbook and wouldn't come out. And I'm no tout. I'm a capper.
So what did Skip the touat do? The biggest tout after Steve Stevens???
He goes to the sportsbook....and out of $1,000, he bets:
$20.
Why? Because he admits on screen he 'doesn't know what he's doing.'
His plan was to lose as little as possible while all the rest lost ALL their money.
Curiously ALL the other touters chose primarily to play MONEY BURNING table games with the sportsbook only 50 feet away!
Even the other idiot touts didn't have enough confidence in their capping in this contest to build their bankroll.
It was an incredible revelation that most posters here already knew was the case, but for any degenerate who actually purchases picks from VIP sports, it should make them run for the hills the next time Perelli or any of the other goons dial them up!
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