Tipster Announces Third Lock Of The Century This Month, Says Centuries Are Getting Shorter
His published record for the year is 312 wins and 4 losses, a figure he says has been independently checked by him.
PHILADELPHIA. A sports tipster who sells picks to 6,300 subscribers through a paid group called Lockbox VIP issued his third Lock of the Century of October on Wednesday, telling members that centuries, in his professional view, “are moving a lot faster than they used to.”
Derek Sowerby, 38, a former car salesman who posts as Locksmith, charges $79 a month for his picks, each of which carries a confidence rating of one to five padlocks. Both of this month’s earlier Locks of the Century carried six padlocks. Both lost.
A century is a hundred years of locks. I just see more of them than other people do. That’s the edge.
October’s Locks of the Century
- October 3: Lock of the Century, lost by eleven points
- October 14: Lock of the Century, lost in overtime, which Sowerby has called “a technicality”
- October 21: Lock of the Century, pending
Asked how his record is compiled, Sowerby said losing picks are reviewed by his team and are usually found to have been value plays, which go in a separate column that subscribers cannot see. Our investigations desk has not been able to reproduce the method.
Ray Delgado, 44, a subscriber since March, said he had lost $2,600 on the first two locks but would follow the third, since by his calculation one was due.
Sowerby said a fourth Lock of the Century is planned for Halloween and will be available to Platinum members only, at $149 a month.
