Archive for February, 2010

NBA Line

There is a chnace I read the line wrong last night but I am pretty sure the opening line on Cavs/Celtics was Celts -1.  The latest line is Cavs -2.5, meaning the line has moved 3.5 points in twelve hours.  Let’s see what happens.

Olympic Links

All Olympics, all the time.
First, a fascinating look at scalping tickets at the winter games.
Olympic ticketing has its set process. Organizers generally sell seats as far ahead of the Games as they can, slowly releasing batches for the premier events first — in order to maximize cash flow in the years [...]

Gambling Thoughts

I’ll preface this by saying I’m not really breaking new ground here. 
Other day Louis was talking to me about the idea of creating a gambling program where someone could be exposed to an extrememly high number of past games with spread knowledge in a short amount of time to make them a better sport gambler.  [...]

Friday Links

Michael Vick is back in the news this week. From Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
I was encouraged to hear that Michael Vick, in advance of his reality show that debuts Tuesday on BET , is saying he led “a double life,” and I use the word “encouraged” advisedly. Because you don’t know how [...]

2011 Super Bowl Odds

These were posted by Bodog this morning. Make of that what you will.
Team Odds
Indianapolis 6.5
San Diego 8
New England 10
New Orleans 10
Pittsburgh 11
Dallas 12
Green Bay 12
Minnesota 12
Philadelphia 16
Baltimore 20
NY Giants 20
NY Jets 25
Tennessee 25
Atlanta 30
Cincinnati 30
Arizona 35
Chicago 35
Houston 35
Carolina 40
Miami 45
San Francisco 45
Seattle 45
Denver 50
Jacksonville 50
Washington 50
Buffalo 100
Cleveland 100
Detroit 100
Kansas City 100
Oakland 100
St. Louis 100
Tampa Bay 100
Defending champions at 10:1??? Atlanta at 30 is also appealing. It’s really tempting to take the top 8 NFC teams, banking on the fact that one of them [...]

Super Bowl Propping

Apologies for the lack of posting this week. Real life + being sick = light blogging. I’ll attempt to make up for it here by hopefully passing along some of the more appealing prop bets available from the literally hundreds available.
Other sites have much more detailed analysis here and here. [...]

Rick J

I have been trying to find gambling blogs kind of like this one but I am not having too much success.  With that said, I came across this guy. 
http://rickjshandicappingpicks.blogspot.com/
He is by no means funny but he seems to have a pretty good record and know what the hell he’s talking about so check him out.  [...]