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TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.

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