I Bet $100 On Sports for the First Time - It’s Ruining the Game | WTF America

Grace is now the proud owner of some of the worst sports bets of the year - echoing the cyclical chaos of the NCAA’s Madness every March. And madness it was! Adding money to an already tense showdown between LSU’s Angel Reese and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark brought the stakes to a whole other level.
It was time to take sports betting - a phenomenon that’s caught millions of Americans and even professional athletes in its dark web - from a foreign concept to a real experiment. How does betting go from casual hobby to full fledged addiction? How does gambling ignite our dopamine receptors? How can we mitigate the damage it does to the game?
Madeline Hill, writer + creator of Impersonal Foul, joins to chat about MLB star Shohei Ohtani’s potential cover up, NBA player Jontay Porter’s prop bets, and whether its possible to untangle leagues from a predatory industry they have become financially reliant upon. Stick around ’til the end to see if literally any of Grace’s bets hit.
0:00 Betting Takes Over
0:57 Getting to Know FanDuel
1:59 Why I’m Betting
2:23 Placing My Bets
3:02 Shohei Ohtani Being Sus
8:15 Jontay Porter … Why?
11:11 Betting Funds Leagues
13:46 Where Are the Ethical Lines?
16:28 How to Look at Addiction
19:07 Will My Bet Hit?
19:54: My Takeaways on Betting
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I also recommend doing parlays, or adding more legs to each bet (it lowers your chances of winning but higher your pay out)

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So what were the 4 bets? You said what one was but you didn't say anything about the other three.

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Buzzer beater at the finish of the first half of Iowa vs. LSU (hit!)
LSU money line (no)
Kristaps Porzingis to score 15+ and Charlotte Hornets money line (lol no)
USC money line (no)