Gambling Thread

Slots over 1199.
Poker over 5k
Tables over 600 and 300x the bet
Not sure about racing or keno

 

Maybe I just need to sit out until Week 5 next football season. Went 4-2 on college picks last week, and 7-3 this week after a disastrous first month.

Lost on Oregon, Liberty and BYU's money line. The latter killed what would have been a sweet money line parlay. I threw $5 at a three-teamer with BYU, Minnesota and Oklahoma State that would have paid $85 if it had hit. Strictly an odds play since I liked all three teams and they were all somehow underdogs in toss-up games.
Liberty, I never saw coming as a straight-up upset. Maybe they wouldn't cover, but lose outright? Ye gods. At least it wasn't a big chunk out of my budget.
The rest of the results made up for it.
Hit on UAB (-15.5 at Southern Miss, won 34-0); Kentucky (+21.5 at Georgia, got the back door cover on a TD with 4 seconds left); and a three-teamer with Alabama (squashed Mississippi State), Army (+14 at Wisconsin, hung tough in a 20-14 loss and even sneaked in a late TD in the final minute that made me feel better) and Ole Miss (-2.5 at Tennessee, and survived that debacle at the end of the game).

Lost a little over $100 over the first month of the season and have won all of it back the last two weeks. Not exactly @exmediahack numbers, but I'll take it.
Not sure if it just takes me a month to triangulate teams, or I wasn't doing enough homework before, or what.

 

Had a 6-teamer yesterday, but also did a 15-way round robin with the same six teams, four at a time. Won everything except Boise. The $10 parlay got beat, but the round robin hit 10 ways for a $271 hit on a $60 bet.

 

Texans are so bad that I won colts -24.5 +385 on a free bet.

 

I was looking at next week's lines, and they're opening as a 17-point underdog at Arizona. I'm always leery of laying that many points in an NFL game, but the Texans really make me want to pull the trigger.

Side note: The Lions are listed as 15 1/2-point underdogs at the Rams. Really like the Lions in that one. There's a big difference between being awful and being unlucky, and I feel like the Lions (while bad) are more the latter than the former.

 

Cowboys miracle means my four-teamer was good yesterday. 50 became 340.

 

Enjoy this Black Friday-esque offering of free bets and bonuses for the NBA season opener.

Caesars: Bet $25 on the spread on BOTH games, get $50 free bets.
DK: Pick Warriors ML and get Curry's total points x2 in a free bet tomorrow (30 points = $60) or Lakers ML with LBJ
The Score: Bet Up to $100 on ML on any NBA team this week. If they lead after 3 quarters but lose the game, you'll get the bet back (up to $100) as a free bet. Do this for EVERY game this week, if you can. $100 at The Score and then bet the other way somewhere else. One of two of these will hit.
FanDuel: $20 free SGP bet tonight on NBA.

 

Semi annoying that I missed all of that not being in a betting state this week, but oh well. The break was probably good for me as it was. Back home Friday so I can bet more then.