Why did Biff start his own casino?
With the Sports Almanac, he basically had unlimited free money in his hands. He didn’t need the cost and stress involved with running a casino. Sure, he earns some income from it but why would he care when he already has unlimited income?
Advantage bettors tend to get limited by sports books.
Casinos make hundreds of millions of dollars. It would be very hard to make that much by making bets.
Besides, anyone that's seen Hot Tub Time Machine knows the future can change, especially sports games.
You son of a bitch
I thought the whole premise of BTTF series was that the future can change, as well as the past?
I'm pretty sure Biff was aware of the Butterfly effect, and concluded that the use of the almanac was limited.
Casinos make hundreds of millions of dollars. It would be very hard to make that much by making bets.
Besides, anyone that's seen Hot Tub Time Machine knows the future can change, especially sports games.
It likely cost him hundred of millions to start it, though.
And they say he made his first million on a single horse bet (I assume a perfecta or something).
He could have easily done that a couple hundred times around the world.
Having your own casino is way more fun than placing bets. How is this hard to grasp?
How do you figure it would be more fun? It costs hundreds of millions of dollars and a ton of stress.
The only way I can see that is if he just got so bored with winning all the time, he wanted to just do something different. But they give no indication of that in BTTF.
Because no one ever went broke owning a casino
His sportsbook would never be weighted to the "wrong" side. Plus he seemed to be living a pretty baller lifestyle.
I have a friend who turned a DeLorean into a full replica of the Time Machine in the movie.
Now that's cooler than owning some silly casino.
No way was Biff aware of any such butterfly effect. The dude used to say “make like a tree, and get outta here.”
He wasn’t very bright.
The first I heard of a butterfly effect was in a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of...
So I guess it's at least a possibility.
edit: It was written in 1952. I read it sometime in the 60's, when I was big into sci-fi.
I often use A Sound Of Thunder in my English classes. Great story.
With the Sports Almanac, he basically had unlimited free money in his hands. He didn’t need the cost and stress involved with running a casino. Sure, he earns some income from it but why would he care when he already has unlimited income?
Once you have a reputation of the words greatest sports gambler, it's not a case where you walk into any sportsbook in the world and they give you unlimited action despite the fact that you get every bet right and have for the last 10 years. They stop taking your bets.
Further, once he's made his zillions doing that, he's probably spent a lot of time at the track and in casinos and seen: everyone else just loses. Would be a natural progression to decide maybe I just become the house (and as others have said - can ensure that I'm tilting my exposure in the way I know I'm going to win).
Essentially - is Biff Doug Polk?
He still seemed pretty miserable. Biff gonna Biff.
Once you have a reputation of the words greatest sports gambler, it's not a case where you walk into any sportsbook in the world and they give you unlimited action despite the fact that you get every bet right and have for the last 10 years. They stop taking your bets.
Further, once he's made his zillions doing that, he's probably spent a lot of time at the track and in casinos and seen: everyone else just loses. Would be a natural progression to decide maybe I just become the house (and as other
So we know the house stops taking your bets at some point and the well runs dry. And the theory is the house let him do this to the extent where he won enough to BUILD HIS OWN HOTEL AND CASINO?
I mean, this isn’t some strip mall card room in Texas. This is a 27 story hotel and casino in the heart of Hill Valley that is so influential, it changes the entire atmosphere of the town.
what's this nebulous "house" you're referring to?
quite a few people made millions betting through intermediaries pushing single digit edges, imagine how much damage someone who never loses would do - just a variance-free ride straight to the sky
he wouldn't ever care if he got stiffed by a bookie here and there
and it's not like you need 100% cash on hand to build a casino hotel - those kind of projects are typically leveraged through the roof, most of the money would be spent on "lobbying"
in addition, Biff could easily pivot to other ventures using almanac's data - like buying the Bulls (or Blazers) before the 1984 draft
