Month: February 2014

NBA

New Orleans +8 @ Phoenix.  Lots of coulda shoulda woulda NHL games from the last couple of days that I was too lazy to post but would have been winners.  Turns out back-to-backs are a good thing when no one has played for three weeks.

UPDATE: Found us a hockey game for tonight…St. Louis +110 @ Vancouver Anaheim.  Pretty rare when we get to wager on an actual good team.

2014 MLB Regular Season Win Totals

They’re finally here.  Pat and I and any fellow degenerate gamblers can now spend the next 5 weeks poring over these numbers and placing our bets to be paid out (or not) six months later.  I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m much more useful at betting sports with lower point totals (soccer, hockey, baseball) than any of the others.  I’ll leave it for others to speculate why this might be the case.  It may be worthwhile to sort out your plays on these futures sooner rather than later before the juice creeps up and out of control.  Also note that the Dodgers and Diamondbacks start on the asinine date of March 22nd in Australia.

Arizona Diamondbacks – 81.5
Atlanta Braves – 87.5
Baltimore Orioles – 81.5
Boston Red Sox – 88
Chicago Cubs – 70
Chicago White Sox – 76.5
Cincinnati Reds – 84.5
Cleveland Indians – 80.5
Colorado Rockies – 76.5
Detroit Tigers – 90
Houston Astros – 62.5
Kansas City Royals – 82
Los Angeles Angels – 86.5
Los Angeles Dodgers – 92.5
Miami Marlins – 69.5
Milwaukee Brewers – 80
Minnesota Twins – 70.5
New York Mets – 74
New York Yankees – 87
Oakland Athletics – 88.5
Philadelphia Phillies – 76.5
Pittsburgh Pirates – 84.5
San Diego Padres – 79
San Francisco Giants – 86.5
Seattle Mariners – 81
St. Louis Cardinals – 91.5
Tampa Bay Rays – 88
Texas Rangers – 87
Toronto Blue Jays – 80.5
Washington Nationals – 89.5

NBA

“We came together…(and) asked each other if we really want this.  We looked each other in the eyes as men and we all came together and decided we wanted to do this. So we came out firing.”

That is a quote from Andre Drummond after the Hawks/Pistons’ game a few nights ago.  Drummond had a big night and the marque play of the game.  The article goes on to note that the “Detroit big man finished 0 for 8 on free throws.”  They wanted it so bad, Detroit wasn’t going to take the Hawks’ charity.

The win “snapped Detroit’s three-game losing streak and handed Atlanta its eighth straight loss.”  The menu tonight in the NBA is pretty horrific.  If we are to believe that in every NBA game there are experiences that could later be mistaken for quotes from Normandy survivors, nights like tonight put the League to the ultimate test.  I am a sick person so there is a big part of me that wants to bet on the Milwaukee/Philly game, but I just don’t know what the Hell to do.

Los Angeles Clippers @ New Orleans Pelicans +4.5 -111 @ 17

***UPDATE***

Oklahoma St @ TCU +13.5 -105 @ 15

UFC 170

Here are my UFC 170 plays:

Stephen “The Wonderboy” Thompson wins inside distance +200 and the fight does not finish at -105

Demian Maia wins by decision +400

Ronda Rousey vs Sara McMann Over 1.5 rounds at -170

Overall good month sports betting, but bad month of poker.  I wish we could bet on the Olympics all year!

 

Medal Friday

Sweden/Finland semifinal gets going in about an hour or so and we missed an even bigger betting spot on Finland/Russia.  We haven’t been playing many sides in the tournament however because these totals have been improbably low.  Likely the last play today, Sweden/Finland OVER 4.5 +119.  Big day again in Canada, the women took both Curling and Hockey gold medals in straightforward & dramatic fashion respectively yesterday, and today it’s Men’s curling gold at 830 and USA/Canada in the other hockey semi at noon.  I’m trying to find a bar that is showing curling live this morning.

Wednesday Hockey

3-0 yesterday, we’ll ride the hot streak today with:

Czech v USA Over 5.5 (+115)

USA -1.5 @ -120 (part of this coming from hedge from our Czech 10-to-1 Gold medal bet).

Also slightly tilted I missed an alternate over bet, 3.5 @ +165 Swiss v Lativa (they weren’t going to be 1-0 games forever, the 5.5 over was at +365!) and of course, Lou’s hot streak in curling.  The guy is a stone savant.

Tuesday

I also have the Over in the Czech/Slovakia game (5.5 at +180 and 4.5 at EVEN). 

Also taking FC Barcelona today at +125 vs Man City.

And now, here’s your Norwegian Curling Pants recap:

http://www.bloguin.com/theapparty/2014-articles/january/the-norwegian-curling-pants.html

 

 

Olympics Update

Winner this morning with our Curling play as Russia beat Germany 8-7.  Sadly the curling tournament is coming to an end right as we’e cracked these totals.  Total for those following me this Olympics is 4-1 +3.69.  One hockey play tomorrow and that’s the Czechoslovakia OVER 4.5 +105.  Maybe I’m using too much NHL knowledge in these overs, but it seems like 5 would be a more appropriate line.  Related, we probably missed a play on US/Slovenia UNDER 6.5.

 

More Curling

Germany Russia OVER 12.5 -130. Czech Swiss over was a loser the other day. The string of 1-0 games by the Swiss will obviously end soon but Jonas Hiller is en fuego at the moment. He won a Stanley cup for the Ducks a few years back on this sort of form. We should find out the remaining hockey matchups tomorrow.

NCAAM

Mixed bag yesterday.  Only 2 games today.  I really like the Northwestern game, Minnesota seems to me a sneaky bad 16 win team.  Good luck.

Minnesota @ Northwestern +4 -110 @ 26

Georgetown @ St Johns -4.5 -102 @ 14

MTD : -76.33

YTD : -118.40