It is those errors in the line as a game predictor that account for the fact that year in and year out the Vegas casinos fail to hold their full 4.5 % of the drop in sprots betting, and that the numbers indicate that the general public consistently wins between 51 % and 52 % of the time, and sometimes as much as 53 %, with all bookmaker profits coming
from sucker bets such as teasers, parlays, point buying, and parlay cards.
With Garland, that can be a
sucker bet: He's much better at setting up intriguing premises than paying them off — even, it would seem, when operating
from someone else's blueprint.