Making Book On Campus

September, 2000

Making Book on CampusA Big Winner:"You see so much money in sports," said John, a gambler turned bookie at the University of Arizona, "you feel entitled to get in on the action yourself." John began placing bets with a campus bookie within a week of arriving at school, and when his bookie graduated, he inherited the operation. In his two years of taking bets, he made more than $150,000 from about 75 regular gamblers, mostly fellow college students.He used the system favored b...