Officially In For The Hilton

Posted: August 23rd, 2008 | Filed under: Last Decade | No Comments »

Even I had my doubts as to whether or not I could pull this off, but I am now officially registered for the Hilton contest with a trustworthy proxy on board to submit my picks. The hard part is taken care of. Now I just need to come up with quality selections for 17 straight weeks.

I am an elevator ride and a 3 minute walk away from one of the largest sports books in Las Vegas, and I still placed every single one of these offshore:

Rockies -153 (1)

Rizo -150 (1)

Rizo/Florida Over 9 -101 (1)

Baltimore -138 (1)

Twins +126 (1)

Spain +21.5 -106 (3)

Not sure how I missed the Blow Jays earlier. That sucks.

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  1. 1: cajuncook said at 4:28 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    Just in case anybody new is curious about the format of this Hilton contest, from ML’s own words:

    “You pick 5 NFL Games ATS each week.

    Buy In Is $1,500

    Prize Pool Is Around 750K. First place last year earned $259K.”

    So this is, uh, a 3 unit buy in to win 54.8, right?

  2. 2: cajuncook said at 4:29 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    Er, 52.8. My head calculator took a minor lapse.

  3. 3: cajuncook said at 4:30 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    Or 51.8. I’m just going to stop for a while now; I’ve filled my retard quota.

  4. 4: moneyline said at 5:27 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    No comment.

    I hope you aren’t an accountant.

  5. 5: Ninersfan said at 5:37 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    Braves take the 8th, Sox lose it.
    strange…

  6. 6: cajuncook said at 5:45 PM on August 23rd, 2008:

    No, fortunately I’m involved with mathematics much more difficult than division. Otherwise, I’d be useless.

  7. 7: Chris said at 8:10 AM on August 24th, 2008:

    Tailed you on the Spain pick…excellent win.

  8. 8: McHale said at 2:22 PM on August 24th, 2008:

    You still don’t get it Cajun, do you?

    You haven’t got the right number yet.

  9. 9: Markatoolio said at 3:07 PM on August 24th, 2008:

    Yeah, scary to see what results Cajun obtains when he is doing math much more difficult than division.

  10. 10: cajuncook said at 6:26 PM on August 24th, 2008:

    See, in my little head I confuse digits that aren’t even there with zeros and change fives to twos and all sorts of other things. At least I got the digits right.. just multiply by a factor of ten!

    Math that can be done with a calculator scares the shit out of me. I’ll talk advanced calculus and diffeq all season long if you need it, though.

  11. 11: Ninersfan said at 7:29 AM on August 26th, 2008:

    Hey Guys.
    I have a question regarding to the Hilton Contest.
    Are there any comparable contests online?
    Where everybody pays an entry fee and a prize pool for the winner is built?
    Would be great.

    Looking forward to hear from you.

    Greetings.

    Martin

  12. 12: moneyline said at 7:39 AM on August 26th, 2008:

    I know of one, but it is for college football only:

    http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showthread.php?t=22343

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