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		not2b 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addi... Pretend to be 1,000 people, and each sock puppet bets $10k.

scrivna 10 months ago [–]

Who’s taking the other side of the bet though? No smart bookie will dig themselves in such a hole, it would obviously be fraud and they’d stop accepting bets

not2b 10 months ago | [–]

One of the massive platforms, like DraftKings. They won't even notice. The point of all this is the effect of making sports betting legal.

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