Of course, bettors like Soper represent one extreme of the sports wagering spectrum. “I’m betting Russian ping-pong, tennis, live betting as the over/under moves, 38 plays in the same f**king game,” explained Soper, who will be profiled next week on Sports Handle’s sister site, MI Bets. Specifically, push came to shove when, about nine months ago, Soper’s wagering consisted exclusively of live - or in-game - bets. Soper, who recently published a book, Never Enough Zeroes, about the lessons that can be learned from his epic losing streak, has not gambled in over six months.

Over the course of the next 35 years, Soper would earn millions of dollars as a successful landscape entrepreneur - and proceed to gamble away every penny of it, mostly on sports bets. “He won by four lengths and I won like $150.

“I bet my bet, and it was actually raining out,” recalled Soper. After parking the bike, he walked down the street and snuck into the now-defunct Detroit Race Course to bet on a horse named Bring on the Rain.

In 1987, a teenage boy named Joel Soper rode his bicycle to the Cloverlanes Bowling Alley in Livonia, Michigan.

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