COLLECTIONS, RISKY BUSINESS PARTNERS

At this part in our story, the number of gamblers betting with Shinehead is growing week by week. It’s far more than Shinehead can handle himself. So in order to handle the other sides of the business, Shinehead had to find partners. One would be the face of the operation, responsible for recruiting new bettors, or finding bookies to turn into runners. The other would be the muscle- usually guys who wanted to work off a betting loss who’d go and collect for Shinehead from any deadbeats refusing to pay. But how does a straight-laced kid on a math scholarship even make it this far, to have to hire partners and contracted collectors, as a bookie? For Shinehead, it was all a calculated risk. And sometimes if you’re lucky, risk is rewarded.