Bet on it: ‘The Mick’ is a pick to click

“The Mick,” a veteran Las Vegas-based bookie, often clears six figures per year. (Rob Miech/Sun-Times)

LAS VEGAS — “The Mick” outed a Vegas sportsbook that posts 30-cent baseball lines and asked rhetorically, How can a bookie operate here?

“Because I still give out -110 on both sides,” he said of common 10-cent odds, in which $110 wins $100. “I still know, in the long term, I’m going to make money.”