The Clipperton wagering: bookmaking with PowerBook and odds-software

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texture · YW (2002), Clipperton's 18th summer

When: YW (2002) — the advent of Subsidized Time and Eric Clipperton's #1 ranking, "Clipperton's eighteenth summer"
What: During the Eric Clipperton saga, "little Michael Pemulis of Allston takes his PowerBook and odds-software and makes a killing on vig in the frenzy of locker-room wagering" over whether the armed, self-hostage-taking Clipperton would materialize at the Indianapolis Clays. Establishes his early bookmaking/gambling operation and his math-for-money instinct. [Attribution note: Pemulis is one figure in the ensemble Clipperton-suicide scene, not its subject; included for the gambling datum.]