After a wild 24 hours on Twitter, one golf gambler has placed the bet of his life on this week’s Mexico Open. Odds are, it will also turn into the most expensive week of his life, but if Carl Yuan can somehow win… wait a minute… Carl Yuan? Yep, Carl Yuan.
It all started with a Monday tweet promising an additional $5 wager on the 26-year-old Chinese PGA Tour pro per like received. More than 1,300 likes later, this guy, who appears to run a bar in Binghamton, New York, was scrambling all over upstate New York to place $US6,575 in bets. Again, on Carl Yuan.
Have a look at the hilarious string of tweets. Well, hilarious for those following this wild betting saga.
Oh for fuck’s sake. You people are sick. My dumb ass golf tweets never get more than like 5 likes. This must be my enemies trying to bankrupt me. But I’ll get the last laugh you bastards.
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 19, 2024
That’s rough. But good for this guy for being a man of his word. On Wednesday, he revealed the receipts that he had indeed put that much down on Yuan. It just became much more of a challenge than he imagined due to personal betting limits on his normal betting apps and sportsbooks.
Figuring out how to put 6 dimes on Carl Yuan was not in my weekly planner heading into the week.
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 20, 2024
Leading him to some situations he didn’t anticipate being in:
You know you’ve reached the nut low in life when you find yourself waiting for a sports book to open at some casino in the middle of nowhere just to get some Carl Yuan action in. pic.twitter.com/hO6kbtPZWg
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 21, 2024
And winding up driving nearly two hours to the Poconos in Pennsylvania to place the final bets on this longshot:
Receipts time!
1315 likes= $6575 Shit.
Before you call me a hedging bitch, just know that $3814 was absolute most I could lay to win on Carl using my 4 apps and 2 casinos in Binghamton NY.In total I bet $6575 to win $524,088
Next tweet is breakdown followed by pics. https://t.co/YkpGLECn1J
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 21, 2024
Lastly, drove 160 fucking miles to most depressing place on earth, the Poconos to fill my quota. It Bruce Springsteen's "The River" come to life. pic.twitter.com/UvWYUtzxfr
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 21, 2024
Look at all those betting slips! But he got them on. And he later realised that he has a plan B. By accident. Due to mistakenly placing one bet on our own Aaron Baddeley. Whoops. Although it’s easy to see how a mistake could be made amid all this chaos.
In my rush to get my Carl action in, accidentally bet $100 on Badds instead. So it's comforting to know that if this whole Yuan thing goes sour, I've got a pretty good plan B already in place. pic.twitter.com/rmEKVSKofM
— Tom & Marty's (@tomandmartys) February 21, 2024
Incredible stuff. Anyway, in total he stands to win more than half-a-million dollars(!) after averaging 80-to-1 odds for all his bets on Yuan to win. Which wouldn’t be the craziest result considering the recent streak of six consecutive PGA Tour winners of 100-to-1 odds or longer, and the fact Yuan has a pair of top fives in his past six starts.
Not to mention, the Mexico Open field isn’t exactly what we just saw at Riviera. But, again, more than likely, this guy is going to lose a lot of money because of a tweet that backfired. Badly. If for some reason, however, he wins, well, then this bartender owes Golf Twitter a huge round of beers.
