***NBA Sunday***

I posted the following this morning in aireent777's Saturday thread after he posted this:

I wonder why these flock of vultures don't appear when someone's winning.  I guess there wasn't enough carcasses to feed last night. But then again, we can't win them all so I always expect them back.

Aireent777, you're not being criticized for losing.  You're being criticized for being caught in some ridiculous lies concerning certain wagers and wager amounts and not owning up to them.  That's the real issue here - that you won't own up to it.  If you were smart enough to deal with the questions surrounding your pretend 15 and 23K bets, we could all quickly get past this and eventually forget about it.  But, you've chosen to ignore the questions surrounding some of your fictitious plays, hoping instead that us "vultures" will just go away, and all that's done is drawn more and more negative attention to your daily threads.  

I really don't care if you or anyone else wants to post fake bets or fake bet amounts on Covers, but I think the reason I've been such a "vulture" to you is because what you're doing (refusing to admit that you lied about money) is what several people in my life have done to me in the last few years.  In truth, I shouldn't be harassing you to this extent because of what certain scumbags have done to me.  I'm probably going to leave you alone after this unless you post something ignorant that draws me right back in.  My advice, for the 25th or 26th time, is that you admit to us the truth about your postings on February 23rd.....

https://www.covers.com/postingforum/post01/showmessage.aspx?spt=22&sub=100987263

....so you can reclaim some of your dignity around here.  We know you're a liar, aireent777, but being a remorseful liar is so much better than being a weasly, unapologetic one.

I posted the following this morning in aireent777's Saturday thread after he posted this:

I wonder why these flock of vultures don't appear when someone's winning.  I guess there wasn't enough carcasses to feed last night. But then again, we can't win them all so I always expect them back.

Aireent777, you're not being criticized for losing.  You're being criticized for being caught in some ridiculous lies concerning certain wagers and wager amounts and not owning up to them.  That's the real issue here - that you won't own up to it.  If you were smart enough to deal with the questions surrounding your pretend 15 and 23K bets, we could all quickly get past this and eventually forget about it.  But, you've chosen to ignore the questions surrounding some of your fictitious plays, hoping instead that us "vultures" will just go away, and all that's done is drawn more and more negative attention to your daily threads.  

I really don't care if you or anyone else wants to post fake bets or fake bet amounts on Covers, but I think the reason I've been such a "vulture" to you is because what you're doing (refusing to admit that you lied about money) is what several people in my life have done to me in the last few years.  In truth, I shouldn't be harassing you to this extent because of what certain scumbags have done to me.  I'm probably going to leave you alone after this unless you post something ignorant that draws me right back in.  My advice, for the 25th or 26th time, is that you admit to us the truth about your postings on February 23rd.....

https://www.covers.com/postingforum/post01/showmessage.aspx?spt=22?=100987263

....so you can reclaim some of your dignity around here.  We know you're a liar, aireent777, but being a remorseful liar is so much better than being a weasly, unapologetic one.

Normally, aireent777 uses specific dollar amounts to indicate both the amount he is risking on a game as well as the amount he is trying to win (as he did today).  For a period of time in February, though, he was using the letter "x" to signify one unit (which for him is $100).  When he posted his wager on Orlando that day, he posted it like this:

Orlando ML (7x)

...which meant "to win 7 units" (or $700).  Aireent777 says he places his wagers at Pinnacle, whose lines he always quotes.  That day, Orlando, a 14.5-point favorite over Sacramento, was -2100 on the moneyline at Pinnacle.  They were -2100 all day long.  When I saw his post, I at first laughed at his bet of course, but then my brow furrowed when I realized the shady aireent777 was therefore claiming to be risking a preposterous $14,700 on the Magic to beat the Kings ($2,100 to win $100 seven times over).  What helped make this claim so hard to believe is that included on his list of wagers was a $107 bet on the Milwaukee Bucks +7 over the Knicks and a $108 bet on the Houston Rockets -5.5 over the Cavaliers.  I politely questioned him in posts #24 and #25 of that thread by asking him this:

So you're trying to win 7 units tonight on the Orlando moneyline?  They're -2100 right now at Pinnacle, so you're risking $14,700 to win $700 on that bet?  Is that correct?

So you're risking $107 tonight on the Bucks and $108 on the Rockets and $14,700 on the Magic.  Do I have that right?

Instead of answering my straightforward questions, aireent777 grew defensive, writing in post #32:

This is my last post of the season if this goes down. I'm down pretty big so I'll take my chances here.

Lakers ML -138 (X every fucking dime I lost today)

and one more thing...no vultures in my thread please....especially vultures like MrBator.  Thank you.

In addition to calling me a "vulture" for asking the very same reasonable questions that could be expected from any close observer of aireent777, notice how he was too lazy to bother calculating how many units he'd actually have to risk on the Lakers moneyline -138 in order to recoup his massive losses from that night.  As it turned out, he'd have had to have risked approximately $23,400 on the Lakers in order to come out ahead $400 for the day (as he claimed he did according to his fudged figures posted in the following day's thread).

Now as PDudek7263 pointed out in post #9 of today's thread, lots of posters on Covers are suspected of not being entirely truthful about the amounts they're betting on games.  Most of us, myself included, don't give a crap about this.  But when we catch one among us insulting our collective intelligence with claims of betting 50 to 75 times his normal wager on a game, I, MrBator, believe it is our sworn duty as Covers posters to uphold the integrity of this forum by mocking the shit out of whoever tries to B.S. all of us in this flagrant manner.  And that is why I have stayed on aireent777's case now for almost three weeks - because I don't want other forums around the world to start thinking that Covers.com is a place where a gambler can go to lie his ASS off without being called OUT.

Normally, aireent777 uses specific dollar amounts to indicate both the amount he is risking on a game as well as the amount he is trying to win (as he did today).  For a period of time in February, though, he was using the letter "x" to signify one unit (which for him is $100).  When he posted his wager on Orlando that day, he posted it like this:

Orlando ML (7x)

...which meant "to win 7 units" (or $700).  Aireent777 says he places his wagers at Pinnacle, whose lines he always quotes.  That day, Orlando, a 14.5-point favorite over Sacramento, was -2100 on the moneyline at Pinnacle.  They were -2100 all day long.  When I saw his post, I at first laughed at his bet of course, but then my brow furrowed when I realized the shady aireent777 was therefore claiming to be risking a preposterous $14,700 on the Magic to beat the Kings ($2,100 to win $100 seven times over).  What helped make this claim so hard to believe is that included on his list of wagers was a $107 bet on the Milwaukee Bucks +7 over the Knicks and a $108 bet on the Houston Rockets -5.5 over the Cavaliers.  I politely questioned him in posts #24 and #25 of that thread by asking him this:

So you're trying to win 7 units tonight on the Orlando moneyline?  They're -2100 right now at Pinnacle, so you're risking $14,700 to win $700 on that bet?  Is that correct?

So you're risking $107 tonight on the Bucks and $108 on the Rockets and $14,700 on the Magic.  Do I have that right?

Instead of answering my straightforward questions, aireent777 grew defensive, writing in post #32:

This is my last post of the season if this goes down. I'm down pretty big so I'll take my chances here.

Lakers ML -138 (X every fucking dime I lost today)

and one more thing...no vultures in my thread please....especially vultures like MrBator.  Thank you.

In addition to calling me a "vulture" for asking the very same reasonable questions that could be expected from any close observer of aireent777, notice how he was too lazy to bother calculating how many units he'd actually have to risk on the Lakers moneyline -138 in order to recoup his massive losses from that night.  As it turned out, he'd have had to have risked approximately $23,400 on the Lakers in order to come out ahead $400 for the day (as he claimed he did according to his fudged figures posted in the following day's thread).

Now as PDudek7263 pointed out in post #9 of today's thread, lots of posters on Covers are suspected of not being entirely truthful about the amounts they're betting on games.  Most of us, myself included, don't give a crap about this.  But when we catch one among us insulting our collective intelligence with claims of betting 50 to 75 times his normal wager on a game, I, MrBator, believe it is our sworn duty as Covers posters to uphold the integrity of this forum by mocking the shit out of whoever tries to B.S. all of us in this flagrant manner.  And that is why I have stayed on aireent777's case now for almost three weeks - because I don't want other forums around the world to start thinking that Covers.com is a place where a gambler can go to lie his ASS off without being called OUT.

Now as PDudek7263 pointed out in post #9 of today's thread, lots of posters on Covers are suspected of not being entirely truthful about the amounts they're betting on games.  Most of us, myself included, don't give a crap about this.  But when we catch one among us insulting our collective intelligence with claims of betting 50 to 75 times his normal wager on a game, I, MrBator, believe it is our sworn duty as Covers posters to uphold the integrity of this forum by mocking the shit out of whoever tries to B.S. all of us in this flagrant manner.  And that is why I have stayed on aireent777's case now for almost three weeks - because I don't want other forums around the world to start thinking that Covers.com is a place where a gambler can go to lie his ASS off without being called OUT.