“If you’re on the same side as him, you’re dead.” “If you go to a sportsbook quite often, there’s always a guy that’s around all the time, and usually the guy is just terrible,” DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello said. Most gamblers know an Eddie Mush, or someone they consider to bring bad luck or be a jinx. Sonny immediately tears up his tickets and walks away in disgust without even watching the rest of the race. We can’t lose.”īut then he sees Mush rooting for the same horse. The above voice-over from the film “A Bronx Tale” helps set up a scene at the racetrack where mob boss Sonny, played by Chazz Palminteri, starts prematurely celebrating with pals what appears to be an easy winner on a horse named Kryptonite. They called him mush because everything he touched turned to mush.” He was also the biggest loser in the whole world. Caroline Brehman/Las Vegas Review-Journal Bettors line up to place prop bets for the Super Bowl at the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Sunday, Feb.

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