{"id":671850,"date":"2026-05-15T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:50:07","slug":"how-a-pro-gambler-and-a-secret-database-turned-a-150-1-long-shot-into-a-soccer-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671850\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Pro Gambler and a Secret Database Turned a 150-1 Long Shot Into a Soccer Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1cexqtn0\">Over more than two decades as a professional gambler, Tony Bloom made his fortune playing high-stakes poker, wagering on soccer and cricket, and honing an approach so coldblooded that he was nicknamed \u201cThe Lizard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1cexqtn0\">But never in his entire career had Bloom made a more seemingly preposterous bet than the one he placed last summer in Edinburgh. By spending $13 million to buy a stake in a team called Heart of Midlothian, Bloom was betting that he could turn Scottish soccer on its head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over more than two decades as a professional gambler, Tony Bloom made his fortune playing high-stakes poker, wagering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[137183,49,48,136637,18370,3456,54005,136639,96138,84,247361,393,394,573,24113,247360,574,160132,16378,561,82,26205,127,5181,96139],"class_list":["post-671850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-types","tag-edinburgh","tag-europe","tag-european-football","tag-factiva-filters","tag-gcapi","tag-health","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260515002874","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mls","tag-northern-europe","tag-page-one-stories","tag-premier-league","tag-routine-general-news","tag-scotland","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-synd","tag-united-kingdom","tag-western-europe","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}