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The 2013 PGA FedEx Cup Playoffs

This is the time of the year when professional golfers and the Professional Golfers Association… the PGA… go into their final round of playoffs for the FedEx Cup for 2013.  The award goes to the year’s top performer on the PGA tour. After the PGA Championship tournament at Oak Hill in New York and the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina, …

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by admin on August 28th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Against The Spread In The NFL

There are some bettors out there who are not too concerned about their team winning outright.  Sure it’s nice to win, but more importantly, it comes down to how a team does ‘against the spread’ or ATS that wins them a warm place in the hearts of football bettors. The Chicago Bears have a new head coach in Marc Trestman …

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by admin on August 27th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Learning From The NFL Exhibition Season (Week 3)

Every year the NFL preseason football games are a learning experience for all of us including the teams, the players… and the bettors. There is usually not a lot of action put out on pro football ‘exhibition games’ simply because neither the handicappers nor the folks making the wagers are particularly well informed about the teams so early on in …

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by admin on August 26th, 2013 Leave a comment »

NFL Preseason Wagering In Week Two

The NFL Preseason games aka Exhibition games saw their second week of action with 16 games played over 5 days.  To football fans and bettors it was a refreshing weekend after the long summer drought of no football. Kicking off the second week of the preseason action the Cleveland Browns (-1.5 -105) hosted the Detroit Lions (+1.5 -115) with an …

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by admin on August 19th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Value Of The Opening Line Part 2

(from part 1) MLB and basketball opening lines were now posted the afternoon before the games, while ‘opening’ football lines were all over the place, and most of the very first bets against those numbers were of the arbitrage variety, not opinion bets.  Bettors were very happy to lay -2.5 on a game in one book and take +3.5 on …

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by admin on August 16th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Value Of The Opening Line Part 1

The Opening Line is a number that always enters into the calculations of bettors and handicappers as well.  It is one of the most important factors in the equations that most everyone who wagers on sports incorporates into their potpourri of information being considered before wagering on a sporting event. That number known as the opening line was not arrived …

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by admin on August 15th, 2013 Leave a comment »

World Series Odds Back To Square One

After losing only one game of a four game series to the St. Louis Cardinals, the resurgent Los Angeles Dodgers went on to sweep a 3 game series from the Tampa Bay Rays to become the hottest team in Major League Baseball going into the home stretch for the 2013 baseball season. Way back before the baseball season began, the …

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by admin on August 12th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Interesting Props For The PGA Cup At Oak Hill

For your players who like to wager on props, the LVH SuperBook in Las Vegas has posted a long list of match up props for the PGA Championship. The book has opened wagering on a host of props around this week’s PGA Championship at the Oak Hill Country Club near Rochester, New York. This is one of the majors… meaning …

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by admin on August 9th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Las Vegas Sports Books Having A Very Good Summer

Although for most of the wagering world summer is in the middle of the ‘slow’ season, the Sports Books in the state of Nevada had a banner month in June mostly thanks to record wagering on the NBA Playoffs between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs but also including augmented wagering on Major League Baseball this year. Stats …

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by admin on August 8th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Odds To Make It To Canton For Active NFL Players Part Two

(Part One) Ed Reed is the only active defensive back to grab more interceptions than Charles Woodson, he has 66 and has racked up more interception return yards than anyone in NFL history.  He too has a Super Bowl ring from 2012 with the Baltimore Ravens. Reed goes to the Houston Texans for 2013 where he is expected to once …

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by admin on August 6th, 2013 Leave a comment »