The mystery man who ‘let it ride’ across successful bets on the first six games of the World Series has walked away with $14million in winnings without betting on Game 7.
Associated Press odds provider RJ Bell shared the astonishing story of the mystery Las Vegas gambler on Wednesday, garnered from conversations he’s had with bookies who legally can’t tell him the bettor’s identity.
‘Multiple sources of mine, everyone I trust, are telling me the same things – different people telling me the same things,’ Bell told Fox Sports Radio. ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.’
Details on the mystery man are scant: he’s under 30, looks and sounds Eastern European, and is a complete unknown to regulars on the Las Vegas strip.
The mystery man who ‘let it ride’ across successful bets on the first six games of the World Series has walked away with $14million in winnings without betting on Game 7 (pictured)
He started out with a bet somewhere in the range of $400,000 to $500,000 on the Dodgers in Game 1.
When he won that bet, he ‘let it ride’, putting all of the winnings on the Astros for Game 2.
And one it went – winning every bet, and letting all the winnings ride on the next game.
As the stakes grew, it became impossible to find a single bookie who would risk ruin take the entire bet, so the mystery gambler had to spread it around.
‘He’s gone up and down the Strip trying to get $50,000 here, $500,000 there, a million over there, and adding it up,’ said Bell.
Amazingly, the bookies Bell spoke with said the man seemed like a complete novice at gambling.
‘The general idea was that this guy had no idea about betting.’
After an incredible run of luck, the mysterious gambler walked away from Game 7 (pictured)
After Game 6, the gambler’s total winnings had reached around $14million.
And just as mysteriously as he appeared on the Strip, he vanished without placing a bet on Game 7, which the Astros won 5-1 to take the series.
‘CONFIRMED by my most trusted source – Perfect World Series “Let It Ride” bettor NOT expected to bet Game 7,’ Bell tweeted Wednesday night. ‘Walking away w/his winnings!’
Theories about the man have been floated, including that he is the front man for some shadowy European syndicate.
But his casual disregard for the odds bookies give him and confusion over basic betting procedures seem to belie that theory, Bell said.
‘The story in general is amazing,’ said Bell. ‘I’ve never heard anything like it.’
Whoever the mystery man was, it seems certain he wasn’t ‘Big Papi’ David Ortiz, the star player turned commentator who picked every game wrong – and also declined to predict Game 7