{"id":1588,"date":"2013-12-31T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2013-12-31T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:21:29","slug":"osga-announces-winner-of-2013-pro-football-progressive-pick-em-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/osga-announces-winner-of-2013-pro-football-progressive-pick-em-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"OSGA Announces Winner of 2013 Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Off Shore Gaming Association (OSGA) is pleased to announce the winners of our annual Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/contestcentral.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2013 OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm<\/strong><\/a> winner is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKenny Bigg&#8217; who beat out over 150 contestants to win the cash grand prize. <\/p>\n<p>The OSGA sponsors several football contests that run for the full football season, but the granddaddy is the Progressive Pick &#8216;Em for Pro Football, now in it&#8217;s seventh year. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid white; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;\" title=\"College Football Pick Em Winners\" src=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/images\/osga_winnersPP2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"450\" align=\"right\" \/>The OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm was two contests in one!  Each week there was also a prize winner of a $100 free betting account at OSGA Elite-rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/osgabooks\/betonline.html\">BetOnline.ag<\/a>. Every week the player with the most wins for that week was given a $100 Free Play. Though a deposit was required, BetOnline gave away nearly $2000 in weekly prize Free Plays. <\/p>\n<p>This year OSGA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popular Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm saw the Progressive part of the contest hit for the second year in a row. In fact two players both went 12-0 in week 8 and thus shared in the progressive pool of $800. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKenny Bigg&#8217; ended up the season with a whopping 72.8% winning percentage overall defeating &#8216;H8H8rs&#8217; (166-75) by 8 wins! &#8216;Kenny&#8217; will get 50% of the remaining progressive prize pool of $900. &#8216;H8H8rs&#8217; won 25% of the pool or $225. In 3rd place was &#8216;chico&#8217; with record of 165-76 and a prize of $90 Cash. &#8216;doctordanger&#8217; was just three wins behind and thus got $90 cash too. $45 was awarded to 5th Place finisher &#8216;illiniwx4caster&#8217; who tied &#8216;Miklos&#8217; with 161 wins but beat him by just 1 point in the tie-breaker to finish in the money. In all more than 25% of players hit games at a clip of 60% or better which is quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year we implemented some new software and after some initial glitches, our contests were better than ever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stated Jim Quinn from OSGA. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are fortunate to be able to work with some great sportsbooks to be able to offer  these contests for our fans, visitors and members and look forward to crowning a College Bowl Champ next week,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>This has been another great year for the OSGA Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm.  OSGA is looking forward to crowning a winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/contestcentral.html\" target=\"_blank\">11th Annual Bowl Challenge<\/a> next week and their annual NCAA Tourney Contest in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Off Shore Gaming Association (OSGA) is pleased to announce the winners of our annual Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Contest. The 2013 OSGA Pro Football Progressive Pick \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm winner is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKenny Bigg&#8217; who beat out over 150 contestants to win the cash grand prize. The OSGA sponsors several football contests that run for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,58,65],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","tag-contest","tag-free-bets","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}