Your Handicapper Told You, You Better Shop Around

[Dr. Jack]

Your Handicapper Told You, You Better Shop Around

How many times have you lost a game by a point or half-point? How many times have you pushed a game? How often do you buy a half-point? What’s the point? The answer my friend is blowing in the “win”. It may sound punny, but this article will keep you in the money.

Successful betting = good handicapping + diligent line shopping. It does not matter whether you hit 57-percent of your plays or just flip a coin, getting the most beneficial line possible will pay huge dividends over the long run. I have heard gamblers actually say something like, “If it’s a good play, it should cover an extra point or so.” Okay, I suppose that gambler has never had a bet decided by a point. But remember what I love to say: we need other gamblers to subsidize the books for us.

I know of several wagerers who destroyed local guys just by playing the offshore steam moves from Don Best’s premium service. The local guy would drive around in his van getting his lines every 20 minutes or so from one of those archaic call-in line services, oblivious to real-time steam moves. The aforesaid bettors, who beat the local guys with steam moves, literally did no handicapping in collecting mightily. They just beat their local guy into oblivion by using a sharper line than their stogie-smoking sports account representative.

I know of several major sportsbooks that do not want to be listed on the real-time odds services simply so they do not have to deal with sharp high rollers.

Sportsbooks are very timid to budge a pointspread when the line in football is three, seven or ten up or within a half-point up or down to such numbers. A half-point line move can have mammoth ramifications on which team the gamblers bet is on and very possibly the ATS result.

With the books so concerned about a half-point line movement, why would you not be so diligent in shopping for the most beneficial line?

It is very possible that hypothetically two people could bet matching plays using the same money management skills, but have different line shopping skills and thus have two significantly dissimilar records and ROIs. Thus after you obtain Godspicks.com selections, you can still augment your prize money deeply.

Just because you’ve become a young bettor now, there’s some things that you don’t understand now. Before you ask some guy for his lines now, keep your betting options as long as you can now. Godspicks.com told you, you better shop around.

Joe Duffy (www.godspicks.com)