Sharps are typically wise guys or betting syndicates who
spread large bets across multiple sportsbooks.
On the other hand, sharps are typically wise guys or betting syndicates who
spread large bets across multiple sportsbooks.
Not exact matches
In a
large Monday trade, one trader used a strategy called a 1x2 call
spread, which is a leveraged way to make a bullish
bet on Nike's stock — in this case, for only 27 cents per share.
In
spread betting, it's imperative that you broker offer you lighting fast trade execution or else you will have to lose a
large amount of money.
The best - value
bets can often be found by going against these teams because the oddsmakers adjust the line to reflect the expected weight of public money; so that the underdog is often quested at better odds or receives a
larger point
spread than is warranted.
Money percentages that contradict our ticket percentages are often an indicator of sharp money and, although Iowa is receiving the majority of
spread tickets,
larger bets (presumably from
betting syndicates) have been placed on Illinois.
Today's NBA marketplace shows many lopsided -
bet games and many
large point
spreads.
Sure, you could gamble on boring things like the point
spread or the game MVP —
bets that can be based on stuff like «stats» and «logical reasoning» — but it's way more fun to risk
large sums of money on the wholly unpredictable: the number of times the announcers say «12th Man,» the color of the postgame Gatorade shower, whether Michael Crabtree mentions Richard Sherman on Twitter.
Thursday night's game is already attracting a lot of
betting activity — and the action is lopsided, with a
large point
spread growing because the Public loves the Steelers at home.
Despite the
large spread, more than three out of four
bets are taking Texas to blowout Kansas by at least 29, especially after the Jayhawks were embarrassed 59 - 21 last week against K. State.
Although the highest ROI correlates with visitors receiving less than 30 % of
spread bets, we will focus on teams receiving less than 35 % of
spread bets due to the significantly
larger sample size and units won.
Over this
large sample, the unranked team has received a majority of
spread bets at our contributing sportsbooks less than 8 % of the time (186 of 2375).
-- It may be the year of the dog, but
betting large dogs has always been profitable for both
spread and teaser / pleaser bettors:
Despite one of the
largest spreads of the week, the
betting public remains overwhelmingly confident in Houston covering against the 2 - 8 Green Wave, mostly due to the fact that the Houston offense looks unstoppable and Tulane ranks near the bottom in points allowed and overall defense.
According to Sports Insights» NFL
Betting Trends data, the
largest percentage of
spread wagers the Broncos have received in a single game this season was 58 % in their Week 1 loss to Oakland.
Instead, it's better to
spread your risk across several different stocks; that will allow you to avoid the big draw - downs that can easily come from losing one
large bet on a single company.