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**One Million Dollar Bowling Bet** Would you do it? (1 Viewer)

If you accepted, do you think you win the million?

  • Yes, I'd roll a strike

    Votes: 12 8.8%

  • 50-50

    Votes: 25 18.2%

  • I'd probably lose but can't pass on those odds

    Votes: 34 24.8%

  • I wouldn't accept the bet

    Votes: 66 48.2%
  • Total voters
    137
Nipsey

Nipsey

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One try. Roll a strike and win a million dollars. Get 9 pins and it's no blood. Get 8 pins or less and pay $25,000. You can't practice for days, just put on bowling shoes, pick a ball (could be your own) and roll it. Would you do it?

 
Nipsey said:
One try. Roll a strike and win a million dollars. Get 9 pins and it's no blood. Get 8 pins or less and pay $25,000. You can't practice for days, just put on bowling shoes, pick a ball (could be your own) and roll it. Would you do it?
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Sure

 
Tanqueray and Tab.  Keep em coming, sweets l got a long drive.   Do me a favor, will you? Would you mind washing off that perfume before you come back to our table?

 
Nipsey said:
One try. Roll a strike and win a million dollars. Get 9 pins and it's no blood. Get 8 pins or less and pay $25,000. You can't practice for days, just put on bowling shoes, pick a ball (could be your own) and roll it. Would you do it?
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I'd accept wagering $100 to win $4000 on those terms.  

In theory this is a no-brainer  except for the fact I don't have $25k laying around.

 
No. Been too long. There's no way, after all of this time and no warm up to cut a groove in the grease, I could throw a hook and be confident it wouldn't slide off. In fact, I'd be much more likely to gutter the ball than hit more than two pins.

Howevah.......

If I could afford to lose the $25k, I'd do it with a house ball and roll it straight (Brooklyn for the win). 

 
10k loss I would do it. 25k is too much. Can't really afford to lose that much

Haven't bowled in a few years and I'm not very good. But at 100-1 pot odds it would be worth a try just to see if I'd get lucky. 

 
If you own your own ball and shoes, you have to take this bet IMO.  Or if you have more than 200K in the bank and decent athleticism.

 
I bowl about once every other year and  throw a straight power bowl that leads to 4-5 strikes a game and 4-5... 7-10 and other splits.  In three games I usually start out with a 140 or so with my best being around a 160. 

That being said with one ball I would probably lose 25K

 
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if I had Chet money, I'd do it. I don't bowl high scores often (usually 120-150s) but last time I bowled a few weeks ago, I hit the 160s and got the first turkey of my career. So I'd give it a go if I could afford to lose.

 
Thorpe said:
If you own your own ball and shoes, you have to take this bet IMO.  Or if you have more than 200K in the bank and decent athleticism.
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Not necessarily. 

If the lanes haven't been oiled in a long time, even a plastic ball would hook off the lane. The only sure way of hitting many pins is going straight and your strike percentage goes down.

 
In the 90s, me and some Reno buds put up a dime apiece to enter a close-to-the-hole par 3 contest by which a guy was selling his golf course in WKentucky. We were gonna name it Morningwood (that wasnt a common joke then) Our shooter hit to 14 feet, so we got a good look and had a hella party wkend. No one aced it, i remember, but cant recall how close the winner was.

 
Walking Boot said:
Sure. 

I wonder, though, if the stakes were higher... win $1 million if you can knock down, say, 3 pins. Lose $1 million if you fail... would the pressure give you the yips? Could you avoid a total gutterball?
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Too easy. Could granny it with two hands right down the middle for 3 pins.

I maybe get out once every couple of years and bowl maybe 2 games. Always threw a straight ball, and there’s probably a 1 in 20 chance on a normal first-ball approach I’d hook it for 3.

Could probably do a keg stand, a 10 second whiffle bat spin, and still do it — in regular shoes. With bowling shoes I’d probably end up flat on my back and drop the ball on my face.

 
Thorpe said:
If you own your own ball and shoes, you have to take this bet IMO.  
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If you own your own ball & shoes, you do not take the bet - you've probably got a custom-drilled ball and throw a hook. 

You're better off trying to slam the head-pocket throwing it straight with a house ball.

 
My husband is a bowler and all his friends are bowlers. They would all take this bet in a heartbeat and it helps they all gamble a lot. I worked as a bartender at a bowling alley in college, at least 500 plus people per bowling alley would take this bet in Michigan. 

 
eoMMan said:
Not necessarily. 

If the lanes haven't been oiled in a long time, even a plastic ball would hook off the lane. The only sure way of hitting many pins is going straight and your strike percentage goes down.
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This is a big variable. Lane conditions would change a lot of peoples mind. 

 
I would try it just to see if I could get lucky.  $25k would not effect me one way or another outside of my wife shaking her head.

 
Walking Boot said:
Sure. 

I wonder, though, if the stakes were higher... win $1 million if you can knock down, say, 3 pins. Lose $1 million if you fail... would the pressure give you the yips? Could you avoid a total gutterball?
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interestingly this I would not do.  While losing $25k is meaningless, losing $1m would be almost a sure divorce which would then only add to the loss financially.

While the likelihood of not getting three pins down is low, there are way too many things that could go wrong.  One simple slip of your foot or hand (which happens to everyone time to time bowling) could easily result in a gutter ball.

The upside here down not override the downsize for me.

 
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NewlyRetired said:
interestingly this I would not do.  While losing $25k is meaningless, losing $1m would be almost a sure divorce which would then only add to the loss financially.

While the likelihood of not getting three pins down is low, there are way too many things that could go wrong.  One simple slip of your foot or hand (which happens to everyone time to time to everyone bowling) could easily result in a gutter ball.

The upside here down not override the downsize for me.
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Would it help if you told your wife "no gamble no future" prior to or following the outcome?

 
No doubt.  I'm a cranker....so I'd throw the rock with heavy spin right after I addressed the ball just to cross over the head arrow....that would set me up for some massive pin action when I hit Brooklyn.  The pin action is the key because hitting in Brooklyn MIGHT drop a full murray on me...but with that wood flying, I'm more than likely to get a steener. I'd take that bet. 

 
Thunderlips said:
No doubt.  I'm a cranker....so I'd throw the rock with heavy spin right after I addressed the ball just to cross over the head arrow....that would set me up for some massive pin action when I hit Brooklyn.  The pin action is the key because hitting in Brooklyn MIGHT drop a full murray on me...but with that wood flying, I'm more than likely to get a steener. I'd take that bet. 
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sweet bowling lingo - have no idea if it's real ...kind of sounds like Fletch, but love the rhythm of it.  

 
So I used to average around 210 (stuck in Alabama for a year where bowling and drinking beer four days a week was about all there was to do after work).  I went out after having not played for a while and rolled 190, 220 and 197 respectively.  I would give it a shot.

 
sbonomo said:
So I used to average around 210 (stuck in Alabama for a year where bowling and drinking beer four days a week was about all there was to do after work).  I went out after having not played for a while and rolled 190, 220 and 197 respectively.  I would give it a shot.
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You could take the bet 39 times and only need to roll one strike to win money. I think a one year old who just learned to walk could do that. 

 
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