This is the kind of bet that makes you believe in the gambling gods again.

Some beautiful degenerate put $9 on a parlay that required three specific games to go to overtime: the Pelicans-Rockets, the Mavs-Pistons, and the Rams-Seahawks. The odds? +111700. That's roughly 1,117 to 1.

All three games went to overtime.

The payout: $10,053.

The Quick Hit

• The bet: $9 on a three-leg overtime parlay
• The odds: +111700 (1117/1)
• The payout: $10,053
• The games: Pelicans-Rockets, Mavs-Pistons, Rams-Seahawks

Let's Appreciate the Insanity

Betting on a single game to go to overtime is already a long shot. Most NFL games don't go to OT — it happens in maybe 5-6% of all games. NBA overtime is slightly more common but still far from guaranteed.

This person looked at three separate games across two sports and said "all of these are going to overtime." That's not handicapping. That's not analysis. That's pure chaos energy manifested into a betting slip.

And somehow, improbably, impossibly, they were right.

The Games That Made It Happen

Rams vs. Seahawks (Thursday Night Football) The Rams blew a 16-point fourth-quarter lead, Seattle tied it up, and the game went to overtime. The Seahawks won 38-37 in one of the most chaotic Thursday night games of the season.

Pelicans vs. Rockets An NBA game that went down to the wire and needed extra time to settle.

Mavericks vs. Pistons Same story — two teams that couldn't be separated in regulation, forcing overtime.

The odds of any one of these games going to OT are low. The odds of all three? Astronomical. And yet, here we are.

The Math for the Skeptics

At +111700 odds, a $9 bet returns $10,053 in profit plus your original stake. That's a multiplier of over 1,117x.

To put that in perspective:

• A $9 bet on the Powerball with similar odds would be considered insane
• This person essentially won a mini-lottery by correctly predicting overtime in three random games
• The expected value of this bet was almost certainly negative, but who cares — they hit

This Is Why We Parlay

Look, we all know parlays are statistically a bad idea. The juice compounds, the odds stack against you, and the sportsbooks love them because they're house money.

But every once in a while, someone hits a parlay that defies all logic. Someone takes a $9 shot on three overtimes and walks away with $10K. Someone threads the needle through impossible odds and comes out the other side with a story they'll tell for the rest of their life.

That's the magic of gambling. It's not about expected value — it's about the possibility that today might be the day everything breaks your way.

The Bottom Line

This bet shouldn't have hit. The math said no. Common sense said no. The betting gods said "hold my beer."

A $9 bet on three overtimes becoming $10,053 is proof that sometimes the universe rewards the bold, the crazy, and the terminally degenerate.

Respect to whoever made this play. You are a legend.