Million dollar wager accepted

[Raji]

August 21 Costa Rica - BookMaker.com CEO Mickey Richardson announced today that the online sportsbook will accept a record-setting $1,000,000 USD bet on U.S. college football by professional sports handicapper Joe "The Factsman" Apricena.

The million dollar bet is whether The Factsman Apricena can finish the 2008 college football season with a better win-loss record than Richardson after making 30 picks on BookMaker.com with a minimum of one pick per week. The Factsman's BookMaker.com challenge starts on August 28th, 2008, the opening weekend of the college football 2008 season, and goes on through the college bowl season in December 2008 and must include the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national championship game in January 2009.


"Sportsbooks do most of their homework on the top 25 college teams in the country because that's where they'll see most of their action," explained Apricena. "But on the other games each week, I'll find five- to eight-point mistakes all year long." After consulting with his line management team at BookMaker.com regarding the million dollar bet, CEO Mickey Richardson has a different take on The Factsman's challenge. "Bring it on," said Richardson, to what Apricena responded "I'll bury him by Thanksgiving."

This is not the first time The Factsman Apricena has made a million dollar bet against Richardson. In 2006, Apricena won a similar $1,000,000 USD bet against Richardson on Major League Baseball. The Factsman needed to win better than 68% of his picks and won the bet with a winning percentage of 72%. When Richardson refused a rubber match on baseball action he challenged Apricena to a similar wager on the National Football League (NFL) season in 2007, which Apricena lost after falling behind early in the season.

Both agreed to settle the rubber match in college football this year, "I have a great deal of respect for The Factsman," said Richardson. "In 23 years of business our sportsbook has never shut out a player, sharp or otherwise, and we're not going to start now."


Joe "The Factsman" Apricena is a professional sports handicapper with a well-documented reputation for being the strongest baseball handicapper of the last two decades. It's well-known that most sportsbooks in Vegas and online will not accept plays by The Factsman himself.

Raji