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Despite 38 U.S. states using legal sports wagering, Charles Barkley needs a side bookmaker to stay up to date with his high-stakes betting.

- The NBA expert has a long history of gambling. - Barkley lost a bet on the Toronto Maple Leafs to win Game 7 vs. the Florida Panthers.

The TNT basketball analyst - who frequently makes FanDuel parlay tease broadcasts - said on Thursday night that the legal sportsbook will not take the kind of action he chooses.

"FanDuel only lets me bet a lot, so I got to have a bookie on the side," Barkley said throughout an interview on TruTV's alternate broadcast of Game 2 in between the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes.

Barkley, a huge hockey fan and kept in mind fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, told host Paul Bissonnette and comic Will Arnett that he put a wager on the Maple Leafs to win Game 7 of their series with the Florida Panthers, who quickly routed Toronto 6-1 last Sunday.

Charles Barkley's gambling is obviously too much for FanDuel to contain.

"FanDuel only lets me bet so much so I got ta have a bookmaker on the side." pic.twitter.com/FTLLpX2odG

Not a lock

That loss eliminated a Maple Leafs team that hasn't won a Stanley Cup because 1967 and has a long history of losing Game 7s.

"I thought when they got back to Toronto for Game 7, (a Maple Leafs win) is a lock," Barkley stated on the broadcast. "That's what I informed my bookie. To see them lose like that, it was demoralizing as a fan."

When he discussed stating that to his bookie, Bissonnette and Arnett asked each other if they had one and joked that maybe they needed to "go halves on a bookmaker." That's when Barkley revealed that he wasn't able to put down the wager he wanted with FanDuel.

History of betting

Barkley has a long-chronicled betting routine, and he's estimated that he's lost more than $25 million betting. The TV personality and NBA legend admitted that he gave up placing sports bets and playing at casinos for two years. there was a time when he could not be happy simply winning or losing $300,000 and needed to push it to $1 million during a weekend.

The "Inside the NBA" analyst likewise went on an 0-21 streak throughout a FanDuel-sponsored sector in which Barkley makes same-game parlay choices. He ended the streak on the last day of the routine season, connecting on an SGP he provided during the broadcast with chances of +560.