10/22: Saturday Top 25 games (not Big 12, not OU)

[badger]

You have till 11 a.m. Saturday to vBet.

[CowboyMRW]

Are these actual spreads? They seem huge

[badger]

Some are actual, some are me trying to make you all not just choose the obvious option like many of you seem to. Spreads are usually setup to make an equal number of bets on both sides, you'd think. For some reason, bets are quite lopsided here. I wonder if real vegas has this same problem...

[badger]

:D I know it's a bad time to gloat, but those point spreads I tampered with really threw a lot of you off

[ouflak]

For some reason, bets are quite lopsided here. I wonder if real vegas has this same problem...As a matter of fact they do. It is very typical that sports books from major casinos actually lose money. This was one of the more surprising facts I picked up when I lived there for a couple of years. In fact I learned a lot about the gambling industry (as one would expect when one works in it). The idea of most of these sports books is, as you might expect, to get patrons into the casinos, not necessarily to make money. That's why the cartel in Vegas did what it could to get the online stuff illegal. They didn't want people staying home and gambling.

[Ike]

Not to gloat, but I liked your tinkered with point spreads.

[badger]

There were definitely some winners, yes... but there was a hell of a lot of losing around vBookie this past weekend, as you can see by my sig line... going from 600k in the hole to 1.1 million (it's actually close to 1.2 now after Sunday) in vProfit is pretty crazy