Thanks...that makes sense. I personally think people who gamble are degenerates and have no real skills in life so they live vicariously through sports teams. Pretty sad they don't realize that they are pawns who are giving their money back to the company store. They are the modern day sharecropper.
So what is the difference in a person who wants to put 20 on a game to enjoy it more and a person who blows money to go see the opera to enjoy that. Sports betting is often done because it adds excitement to a game that one has no personal favorite.
that's pretty much the only reason i play fantasy football. so i can watch a non steeler NFL game. outside of a very good game (Last week's Chiefs/bills game) i have an extremely hard time sitting thru an nfl game. now that i play fantasy, it gives me a rooting interest..
that's how i feel about people who play the lottery or the old heads who cash in their social security checks and go play the slots at the casinos..
Left in 3Q to beat the traffic
it's not really at all. Someone else's vice is always worse than our own vice..
geez man, you never laid a bet down on a game or played a hand of blackjack? Sometimes you win too.
Honestly, I can't get past the odds, myself. It's a weird hang-up of mine, that's all. I take small-time action in a pool with a group of people but it's low risk.
I disagree with this. Vegas absolutely does work to get 50/50 money on each side. September lines are nearly always based on the hype and name value because that is what gamblers are gambling off of most of the time. In October, Vegas lines are based on a mix of hype and results because the average gambler is still basing their plays off of hype and name recognition. By December, the hype is a nonfactor and Vegas is on point with their lines based on the realities of each team.
Yeah I mean I enjoy buying a couple scratch tickets . No harm . Hell I just won
Vegas is having just as hard of a time figuring out Louisville as they are Pitt. We got blown out as a road favorite at Syracuse, then beat UCF on the road as an underdog. (Still UCF’s only loss). We lost a close game at home against FSU, then blew out a bad USF team… which were results that seemed reasonable, but then lost as a 15 point favorite at Boston College. And finally beat Virginia by 17 as a road underdog with Cunningham out.
Vivid seats projects 75% of the crowd to be WV fans.
You started a thread just so you could post this gem?
Imagine creating a troll / burner account 21 years ago. This is so odd to me. I'm not sure which is more pathetic, the wanna be funny trolling Pitt fan, or the sleeper accounts that get activated by hoopies and nitters.
I just would like to know where they get the line and their reasoning for it. Not sure I agree with your comment how they don’t want 50/50. If that’s not true, why does the line keep changing?
I am a troll because I think gambling is stupid (which it is) and asked for some background on how lines are set?
The difference is there is no fine print for addiction phone numbers below the ads for an Opera problem for Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea
I placed a dollar. Had the opportunity to cash our for 3 cents
Not sure how making a huge bet on Pitt wouldn’t move the line. I always felt that if a lot of public just started betting Pitt that would cause the line to move bc if Pitt did indeed win, Vegas loses money.
Any bookmaker that moves off of square money in a major sport has no clue what he’s doing and would soon be fired.
