Posted Friday, March 18, 2011 09:32 AM
There’s a profitable first-half trend from yesterday’s action of March Madness that carries over from last year. First half over/unders went 10-4-2 yesterday, earning a nice payday for those who made this wager on every matchup.
It’s a trend worth noting, not only for the cash, but also because the over/under went just 8-7-1 overall yesterday, with the lone push coming in the Richmond-Vandy game (135).
This trend carries over from 2010 and a few of us in the office continued to follow it this year to see where it would lead. To the best of our memories, only five games played under in the first half last year through the first two days, though don’t shoot me if I’m wrong by a couple of games.
Still, that was a massive profit last year and shaping up to be a nice one this year.
All trends must come to an end but worth throwing out there for your consideration as you make your wagers today.
Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 01:47 PM
I am a little ashamed of the fact that when I type in the letters “a-m-e” in the URL slot at the top of my web browser that the official website for American Idol automatically pops up.
But after talking about Crappy Idol last week in my blog, it seems there are some other watchers out there too, so let’s keep this going each week and see if any others come out of the karaoke closet.
After last night’s performances, Adam “Man Bangs” Lambert made me eat my words. He pulled off one of the best showings of the competition that made all but a couple of his other competitors look unworthy to be roadies on his future tour.
I didn’t recognize the song and I can’t even really remember the tune, but I have to admit it was impressive. Pinnacle responded in kind and dropped Lambert’s odds to +170 earlier this morning and that number has been bet down even further since.
Matt Giraud and Allison Iraheta were the only other two top notch singers of the evening and the 16-year-old Allison has especially made herself worth a wager at +930.
But after that, this show really lived up to its Crappy Idol handle.
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Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:01 AM
There is a bunch of chalk remaining for the Sweet 16 and that has led to one thing: more chalk. The No. 1 seeds are all heavy favorites to advance to the final four and several books, like Betjamaica, even have all four teams listed at minus money to win their respective regions.
Pittsburgh is -110 (East), UNC is -200 (South), Uconn is -110 (West) and Louisville is -165 (Midwest).
It doesn’t exactly make for any huge payouts if you want to take any one of these teams to hit the court in Detroit in a couple of weeks.
So, my question to you is, who has the best value to win its region outside the No. 1s?
Before the tournament began I grabbed Kansas at a little better than +600 to win the Midwest and they are now at +400. I happen to think Louisville isn’t as good as the billing suggests and the Cards are beatable against a well-coached team with a savvy ball handler that can break the press.
The Jayhawks meet both those criteria with Bill Self and Sherron Collins.
Kansas still needs to get by a tough Michigan State squad, but if it can, I think the J-birds have a great shot at toppling Louisville. That is if the Cards can get by Zona.
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