Ray William Johnson

And in the next season alone, they place bets on up to 40 games, all ones that Tim is refereeing.

And so like before each game, Tim will give Jack his winning pick, then they both place their bets, and of course, they win.

And this starts bringing in serious money for these guys.

In fact, Tim wins so much money that he starts worrying about where he's gonna hide it in his house so that his wife doesn't find it.

So I guess he's winning all this money and just like not telling his wife.

But here's the crazy thing.

Jack is placing all his bets through an online betting site.

This online betting site is run by a small sports betting syndicate called The Animals, which is just a small group of professional gamblers.

But one day, someone in this syndicate, who knows Jack personally, they start noticing a strange pattern in Jack's betting.

Because before all this Jack used to bet small amounts and he would lose most of the time as most gamblers lose.

But now all of a sudden he's placing much bigger bets on very specific NBA games and he's winning them somewhat consistently.

So this guy starts thinking, there is no way Jack got that good overnight.

So he goes and he tells the others in the animals.

And they also get suspicious of Jack, and they start looking into him.

I mean, they know he's up to something, and they want to know exactly how he's pulling this off.

Well, after a bit of investigating, they find out that Jack is close friends with an NBA referee, a referee named Tim.

And they also find out that all the games Jack has been betting on are games refereed by Tim.

And so now they know Jack and Tim have some kind of illegal scam going on.

But they don't confront either of them about it.

Instead, they just start copying Jack's bets.