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Gambling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Oct 18, 2013.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Well, that certainly was a rollercoaster set of games:
    • The Bengals blew a 21-point lead and lost, but still covered the spread.
    • WFT scored a touchdown with 36 seconds left to cut it to 20-19. If they kick the PAT to send it to overtime, there's no way the under comes home unless it ends in a tie. But they go for two instead. Didn't get it, but either way it ensured the Under 43 stayed intact.
    • Right around the same time, the Texans scored to go up 36-29. They went for two, which would have sealed the win, and didn't get it. Titans drive down the field in the last two minutes, score a touchdown with four seconds left to send it to overtime, and then score another touchdown to win it before the Texans even touched the ball.
    The two-point gods giveth, and the two-point conversion gods taketh away.
     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    The ending of that Giants-WFT game was also a Bad Beats candidate on several levels.
    The Giants were favored by 3.5, so the late touchdown kept them from covering. The decision to go for two kept the game from going over, missing it killed the WFT money line, and kept the Giants from having any chance at covering the spread with an overtime touchdown.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Mad at myself for not checking the live moneylines when the Bengals were up 21-0 (as a lifelong fan I know how that song ends) and the Packers up 10-0. It's the effing NFL, early leads don't mean squat. Unless you're playing the Jets ...
     
  4. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I did hit the button on Bucs ML +270 when it got to 10-0 because I didn't trust LaFleur after halftime. Even with Green Bay's early lead, there was something just a little... "off" about the Packers early.
     
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  5. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    No poker tonight, so I just threw $20 down on live in-game wager of Dodgers -5.5 at +135. First time I've ever bet in-game odds. Should keep the last few innings interesting.
     
  6. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Well, that Betts home run is a good start.
     
  7. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Two runs by the Rays in the following inning mixed that idea. Oh, well, I managed to find a poker game and won $50 in about an hour of play. Good enough entertainment for the night.
     
  8. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I’m constantly looking at the home run markets tonight. Will Player X hit a HR... yes or no?

    Had -1100 on Margot no last night. Found a -500 Margot “no” and I’ll roll that over.
     
  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Remind me not to bet unders anymore on starting pitcher strikeout totals. Lost last night on Snell, who was terrific, but also on Glasnow in Game 1, who was mediocre. It doesn't matter because the game is such an unwatchable whiff-fest, even in the damn World Series.

    Rant over.
     
  10. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Glasnow had 8 K's, I believe? Couldn't believe that went over as well.
     
  11. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Another funny episode of "Bettor Days" on ESPN+ ... spoiler alert for the three of you who have the service and might want to watch ...








    So a guy told a story about his 14-leg March Madness parlay two years ago. Seven games, sides and total. They explain how it's about 10,000-1 longshot, then the guy (a schoolteacher from NJ) walks through how he was betting and how game after game comes in, and his girlfriend goes from not caring and lecturing him to rooting right alongside. Last game hits and he's a winner! Greenberg asks how much he had on it.

    The guy bet it online. For 14 cents. So around a $1400 payday, which he used for a downpayment on a ring for said girlfriend. Nice ending but still ... 14 cents!
     
  12. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    I just jumped back into live sports betting the other night for the first time in a few years for very small stakes ($10-$20 per bet) and part of me already hates it because the stakes are so small. About 20 years ago when my friends and I were all young, single and largely broke, we went to the local casino and my buddy, a notorious cheapskate, found the penny slots and excitedly dragged us all down there. One of our friends hit the jackpot on a machine. The lights were blazing, sirens blaring, change pouring out of the machine. Came out to $50. I walked right the hell out of there and hit the $10 roulette table (cleared $1,100 that night without hitting anything close to a "jackpot").

    Anyway, for this weekend, I made a $10, three-bet parlay on the Giants/Eagles under 50, Giants +11 and Browns +3. Hit the first two sides, need the Browns to pick me up on Sunday for a whopping $16 payout. Also threw $10 on the Dodgers -1.5/+105 in Game 3. That line has since moved to -1.5/+120 while the Rays have gone from +1.5/-120 to -140.
     
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