Despite 38 U.S. states providing legal sports wagering, Charles Barkley requires a side bookmaker to stay up to date with his high-stakes betting.
- The NBA analyst has a long history of gaming.
- Barkley lost a bet on the Toronto Maple Leafs to win Game 7 vs. the Florida Panthers.
The TNT basketball analyst - who frequently makes FanDuel parlay badger broadcasts - said on Thursday night that the legal sportsbook won't take the sort of action he chooses.
"FanDuel only lets me wager a lot, so I got to have a bookie on the side," Barkley said throughout an interview on TruTV's alternate broadcast of Game 2 in between the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes.
Barkley, a huge hockey advocate and kept in mind fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, informed host Paul Bissonnette and comic Will Arnett that he placed a wager on the Maple Leafs to win Game 7 of their series with the Florida Panthers, who easily routed Toronto 6-1 last Sunday.
Charles Barkley's gaming is obviously too much for FanDuel to include.
"FanDuel only lets me bet so much so I got ta have a bookmaker on the side." pic.twitter.com/FTLLpX2odG
Not a lock
That loss eliminated a Maple Leafs group that hasn't won a Stanley Cup considering that 1967 and has a long history of losing Game 7s.
"I believed when they returned to Toronto for Game 7, (a Maple Leafs win) is a lock," Barkley said on the broadcast. "That's what I informed my bookmaker. To see them lose like that, it was demoralizing as a fan."
When he discussed saying that to his bookmaker, Bissonnette and Arnett asked each other if they had one and joked that possibly they required to "go halves on a bookmaker." That's when Barkley revealed that he wasn't able to put down the wager he preferred with FanDuel.
History of wagering
Barkley has a long-chronicled wagering habit, and he's estimated that he's lost more than $25 million betting. The TV personality and NBA that he gave up positioning sports bets and dipping into gambling establishments for two years. Barkley stated there was a time when he couldn't enjoy simply winning or losing $300,000 and required to press it to $1 million during a weekend.
The "Inside the NBA" analyst likewise went on an 0-21 streak during a FanDuel-sponsored section in which Barkley makes same-game parlay picks. He ended the streak on the last day of the routine season, linking on an SGP he gave out throughout the broadcast with odds of +560.
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Barkley: i have a Bookie on the Side, 'FanDuel only let's me Bet so Much'
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