How Can You Take Away the Advantage From the Sportsbook or Sports Gaming Lines?

[Rich Allen]

A wise guy once told me, "You don't want to make the bet, you want to take the bet." The clever man was my grandfather and he provided rather a good living for his kids and grandchildren doing just that - taking action. It didn't really make
good judgment to me at that young age, I mean one team has just as good a probability to cover as the other so where's the benefit?

But that was before I knew about the concept of 'juice' or 'vig.' I mean, when my
brother and I used to bet $5 on the Cowboys vs. the Steelers or something, that was
it - loser owed $5. But the older I got, I became fully alert of how potent the
concept of vigorish was and why the bookie had such lead over the player.

Because you usually have to lay $110 to win $100, you can't just win 50% of your games and break even. You now want to hit ... 52.4% of your games to break even.
Over the course of a season that makes a HUGE difference.

Now envision you only had to lay -105 ... every day. What would that do to your necessary winning %? Well, it lowers the break even point down to 51.2%! You've
just stolen 50 percent of the lead back from the bookie! For somebody like myself who makes a living doing this, that is extremely critical!

If you can find a sportsbook with reduced juice and they never shade their lines then you're in good shape. You can always get the 'true' number on a game, even if they're taking a huge amount of the betting action.

A competitive bonus program is another huge way to take some of the advantage back from the casino.

So if you still want to make the bet, here is a impressive way to take the edge away from the sportsbook. Don't continue getting taken advantage of when you don't have to.


All the best until next time,

Rich Allen - aka Sports Betting Professor

[GFootsXtreme]

1st post is an explanation of how juice works?

[Romanowski]

the "deep" professor in the house

talk about some complex questions here

[BigFratDaddy]

The concept of juice, like apple and orange? And how come if i win a bet for $10 my bookie only pays me $9.09. Ive called to complain about this alot...i think theyre ripping me off

[Bobtheicon]

Thanks professor.

[Gobbler's Knob]

Originally Posted by GFootsXtreme

1st post is an explanation of how juice works?

It's about time someone explained this to me.

[NY Mane]

This guy has been posting the same thing at other forums.

Why I axe!

[tigerman19]

sportsbook offering -105 looking for business...

[westcoastO]

solid solid article, learned a lot. leave him alone guys

[Mendoza Line]

Rich Allen <-----fake name? first and middle? or wishful-thinking adjective and first?

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If you are laying -105 please explain how you have taken away the advantage of the sportsbook?

They are still going to bust you unless you can figure out a way to beat the market enough to overcome the juice.

Please post what that is professor then I will be interested.

[Bronson7]

Isn't the bottom line about winning?

[Romanowski]

you sir are brilliant bronze

dont let anyone tell you otherwise

besides just win baby though

you have to beat moves is the bottomline

if you have -6 and the market corrects and is now -9

well that will aid significantly

thats an exaggerated scenario but it illustrates it well

same goes for MLs or any other way the market corrects

[Bronson7]

Here's somthing else to discuss. Say the line opens up in any sport, mainly Basketball or football at +1/-1, does the slight dog cover most of the time? Over the corse of the NBA last season i was backing that quite often and won.

Dog+1/-1Fav

[Romanowski]

youd probably have to extract more data to maximize that angle thats more likely to be 52% at best by itself

and would depend on what shop as well

if you think an opening line automatically gives the player an edge then youre not that bright