Mysterious World Series gambler reportedly walking away with $14 million instead of betting on Game 7

An Eastern European gambler has already won big on the World Series, and he has no signs of stopping. Now he has over $14 million on the line for Game 7 and has left the gambling world wondering “how?”

This isn’t a case of a single gambler throwing down huge money on a single game. The bettor has won on all six World Series games so far — spread across multiple bookies — and let it ride after every single win. When the Dodgers won Game 6, he could have taken home over $14 million, but he let it ride — again.

Little is known about the gambling mystery man, prompting people to raise questions. He’s not a regular in the Las Vegas sports betting scene, and his only other previous bets were on UFC fights, all of which he won. The odds he’s taking are consistently bad, prompting people to wonder whether he’s just lucky or if this is part of a scheme by a larger syndicate.

Others are questioning whether the mysterious bettor exists at all. It’s a fascinating story that has become part urban legend, as much as anything else. RJ Bell, who has been following and tweeting about the bettor, claims his bets are so big and against the odds so severely that he’s single-handedly changing the lines in Vegas.

People are desperately trying to learn the identity of the bettor, how he’s predicting these games so perfectly in a series that has been totally up in the air, and waiting to hear where he’ll put all his money on Game 7.

Update: RJ Bell is now reporting that this mysterious gambler isn’t actually betting on Game 7 after all. Instead, he is (or they are?) walking away with the winnings and watching the final game of the baseball season without the stress of $14 million on the line.

That’s a fine choice, if not the heartstoppingly exciting choice, and we still mostly want to know who this person or persons are and what they plan to do with their $14 million.