DAY THIRTY FIVE: The Biggest Gambling Day Of The Year Pays Off In Squares

DAY 35: the biggest gambling day of the year pays off in squares
Originally uploaded by displaced365.

The Super Bowl is the biggest gambling day of the year. Las Vegas takes in more wagers on Super Bowl Sunday than it does in many entire weeks.

Then of course there's the online sports books and such which take in quite a bit of money as well. But, being only quasi-legal in the United States they don't much advertise like Las Vegas does.

And then there's the gambling that even police officers do like NCAA pools and this wonderful game - squares. In this game you choose a number from 0-9 on two axises to denote what you think the score will be at the end of each quarter.

I did quite well at squares today. I had the comination of Bears 4, Colts 6. The first quarter ended Chicago 14, Indianapolis 6. I won $11.60 (it would have been $20.00 if all the squares had been bought). The second quarter ended Colts 16, Bears 14 and I again got another $11.60.

The third quarter and final score were not as kind to me. But the final score was kind to me in one way. I took home $70.00 from a futures bet I placed back in October when the Colts were 6 to 1 to win the Super Bowl.

I took home another $10.00 from a guy at work.

In all, with side bets and such (which I lost a couple of), I took home just under $100.00 in gambling winnings today. That's a very big day for me since I bet in $1 incriments ordinarily just for the action.

Yep, the biggest day of the year.

NOTE: February 4, 2007 post to Photo 365