He said to me, ‘Would you bet $150,000 on one game?’ I said, ‘No!’ Let’s chop it.” “Cris called me, and I went to his house in the cab.

“We were both stunned that we were the only two alive,” Parsels said. Weiss easily advanced with the Patriots, who blew out the Browns 45-7. Parsels barely escaped Week 10 with the Saints (+2½), who lost 23-21 to the Titans. Parsels and Weiss each had been down to their final entry for weeks when the field was whittled to six after Week 9. Entries cost $25 each, with a maximum of five for $100. In Last Man Standing, entries pick one game against the spread each week and are eliminated with a loss. “We didn’t even have to talk to each other to know that we were chopping this baby.” When Parsels and Zeniuk learned through their mutual friend Grimm that they were the final two men standing in the contest after Week 10, they quickly decided to chop the pot.

Parsels and Weiss, an environmental attorney from Los Angeles, were the two official contest winners, collecting $75,000 each for outlasting a field of 6,241 entries.īut Parsels partnered in the contest with Grimm, a retired Las Vegas resident, and Weiss partnered with Zeniuk, a Las Vegas-based pro sports bettor. Just call Parsels, Malcolm Weiss, John Grimm and Cris Zeniuk the Last Men Standing. “When I’m in the sportsbook, and four or five people tell me they like the same team, I will either take the other side or not bet the game,” said Parsels, 67.

Las Vegas resident Richard “Benny” Parsels - who, like Trotter, is a taxi driver - employed a similar strategy en route to splitting the $150,000 prize for winning Station Casinos’ pro Last Man Standing contest. In the movie “Let It Ride,” horse bettor Jay Trotter, played by Richard Dreyfuss, takes an informal survey at the track, bets all of his money on the one horse that wasn’t mentioned and wins $69,000. Cris Zeniuk, left, was Weiss' contest partner, while John Grimm, right, was Parsels' partner.

Malcolm Weiss, second from left, and Richard Parsels, second from right, split the $150,000 prize in Station Casinos' pro Last Man Standing contest.

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