NFL player arrested for gambling while in college

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Maybe the suspended Iowa wrestlers got off easy?

New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte was arrested Thursday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over allegations of illegal sports betting while he played at LSU.

Louisiana State Police said the charges against Boutte, 21, include a felony count of computer fraud and a misdemeanor count of gambling prohibited for persons under 21. The investigation is ongoing, police said, with additional charges possible.

Investigators assigned to the Louisiana State Police Gaming Enforcement Division found that Boutte bet on sports from April 6, 2022, until May 7, 2023, when he was 20. Boutte allegedly used an alias to get around the age requirement for placing sports wagers in Louisiana.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39386960/patriots-kayshon-boutte-arrested-illegal-betting-lsu

[Caveira]

Most gamblers pay their debts.    

[Gage]

8,900 bets? Holy smokes. 

[AgaveMaria]

Yet at 18 one in the US military can see active combat.

At 18 one in the US can vote.

 

[wrestle87]

Once again, this sh*t is stupid.  Weed finally gets legalized in a bunch of places and we go ahead and implement even more victorian laws…

 

[billyhoyle]

1 hour ago, wrestle87 said:

Once again, this sh*t is stupid.  Weed finally gets legalized in a bunch of places and we go ahead and implement even more victorian laws…

 

This guy bet on LSU football games while on the LSU football team.  That is about as dumb as it gets and he should be arrested for that.  And the sportsbook needs to be fined for booking the action.

[Dark Energy]

Seems like mental mindset for some is to not hold people accountable for their actions.  Deflect and blame the people who caught them for doing something wrong.  

I dearly hope this mindset doesn’t expand to others.  
 

 

[feet2back]

15 hours ago, Gage said:

8,900 bets? Holy smokes. 

He Only bet on 17 NCAA games in a year...That number (8900) is so high because he must have played in their online Casino ( Blackjack, Poker. Roulette, slots etc...)

Edited January 26 by feet2back

[bnwtwg]

You can add up the quantity of bets quickly and not interested in playing blackjack. Let's say I like to watch the NFL on Sundays and there are 7 games I want to bet on.

7 games X 1 bet = 7 singeles bets

Now I want to parlay those bets.

1 parlay x 1 bet = 1 parlay bet

Aw shucks, I want to hedge so I'm going to do a full round robin where it's packages of all parlay combinations of two game (21x), three game (35x), four game (35x), five game (21x) and six game (7x) bets.

7 singles bets + 1 parlay bet + 119 round robin bets= 127 total bets

FYI, seven games would be less than half of a full NFL weekly slate (16 games). If you bet something marginal like 50 cents to $1 per bet, you're statistically not going to go up big or down a lot throughout the course of the season even as a broke college kid. So you keep betting every week because it's fun and you're only up/down net $10 bucks for the season.

17 weeks of the NFL regular season multiplied by 127 bets per week (see above example) = 2,159 total bets before the playoffs.

 

 

Should student athletes be betting on their own sport or their own school? No. 

Should pro athletes bet on their own sport? No.

Do the pro leagues and NCAA taking that sweet, sweet legal gambling money have anyone to blame but themselves? No.

 

[AgaveMaria]

13 hours ago, wrestle87 said:

Once again, this sh*t is stupid.  Weed finally gets legalized in a bunch of places and we go ahead and implement even more victorian laws…

 

It is still a controlled substance and illegal on the Federal level. You can always get nailed by the Feds for using it. An "add on" to put pressure on someone when they feel like grinding a perp.

[wrestle87]

59 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

Should student athletes be betting on their own sport or their own school? No. 

Should pro athletes bet on their own sport? No.

Do the pro leagues and NCAA taking that sweet, sweet legal gambling money have anyone to blame but themselves? No.

Man, this so much right here.  It literally is just reframing back to the way it used to be before NIL almost.  The NCAA is still working so very hard to maintain an asymmetric (ie domineering) relationship with athletes.  They are so bald-faced in their motives.

[bnwtwg]

44 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

Man, this so much right here.  It literally is just reframing back to the way it used to be before NIL almost.  The NCAA is still working so very hard to maintain an asymmetric (ie domineering) relationship with athletes.  They are so bald-faced in their motives.

Death to the NCAA, even though it almost certainly means death to all olympic sports *as we know them in the US

Edited January 26 by bnwtwg
added "as we know them in the US"

[Wrestleknownothing]

2 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

You can add up the quantity of bets quickly and not interested in playing blackjack. Let's say I like to watch the NFL on Sundays and there are 7 games I want to bet on.

7 games X 1 bet = 7 singeles bets

Now I want to parlay those bets.

1 parlay x 1 bet = 1 parlay bet

Aw shucks, I want to hedge so I'm going to do a full round robin where it's packages of all parlay combinations of two game (21x), three game (35x), four game (35x), five game (21x) and six game (7x) bets.

7 singles bets + 1 parlay bet + 119 round robin bets= 127 total bets

FYI, seven games would be less than half of a full NFL weekly slate (16 games). If you bet something marginal like 50 cents to $1 per bet, you're statistically not going to go up big or down a lot throughout the course of the season even as a broke college kid. So you keep betting every week because it's fun and you're only up/down net $10 bucks for the season.

17 weeks of the NFL regular season multiplied by 127 bets per week (see above example) = 2,159 total bets before the playoffs.

 

 

Should student athletes be betting on their own sport or their own school? No. 

Should pro athletes bet on their own sport? No.

Do the pro leagues and NCAA taking that sweet, sweet legal gambling money have anyone to blame but themselves? No.

 

Please, please, please tell me you do not think a round robin is a hedge.