Uber Tout said:Someone who places bets for someone else, when the someone else has sufficent notoriety to make his action unwelcome at sportsbooks.
If you're so sharp that no book will take your action, you need beards to place your bets for you in exchange for a small cut of the profit.
You are in effect disguising yourself, hence the term 'beard'...
UT
Hard to disguise yourself at 5-4 299, may not make a good beard.:biggrininUber Tout said:Someone who places bets for someone else, when the someone else has sufficent notoriety to make his action unwelcome at sportsbooks.
If you're so sharp that no book will take your action, you need beards to place your bets for you in exchange for a small cut of the profit.
You are in effect disguising yourself, hence the term 'beard'...
UT
Its Hans Langseth, and he is directly related of one of my best friends growing up in North Dakota.Fishhead said:The longest beard on record was grown by Hans Lanseth (born 1846) from Norway. His beard measured seventeen and a half feet (5.33 meters) on his death in Kensett, Iowa, USA in 1927.