Are
you winning straight bets, but losing parlays?
Not exact matches
Following their convincing
win at Seattle this past weekend (which is one of the toughest places for opposing teams to play in the NFL), the public isn't just drinking the Cincy kool - aid, they're pounding it, with 7 out of 10
bets confident the high - rising Bengals can either
win straight up or lose by two or less on the road.
In addition to this one - sided public
betting on the spread, casual bettors are also taking Kansas to
win straight up.
Instead, these sports offer a moneyline in which you
bet on whether or not a specific team is going to
win straight up.
As a result, the
betting public is pounding the Pats, with slightly more than seven out of ten spread
bets confident the Pats can get back on track and either
win straight up or lose by a single point.
With the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give the road dog Bills an additional half - point, the
betting public is pounding Buffalo to bounce back and either
win straight up or lose by two or less in the AFC East showdown.
As a result, the
betting public is back on the Tebow bandwagon, with slightly more than half of all spread
bets taking Denver to either
win straight up or lose by two or less against the 4 - 4 Chiefs.
However, despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take a valuable half - point away from the road dog Seahawks, the
betting public is sticking with Seattle (who looked impressive in a 22 - 17
win over the Ravens last week) to either
win straight up or lose by two or less at Edward Jones Dome.
However, six out of ten spread
bets are going with St. Louis to either
win straight up or lose by less than two, especially after the listless Browns have failed to score more than 12 points in each of their last three games.
Instead of
betting that a team will
win the game
straight up (money line
betting), you instead
bet with a run line of 1.5.
Conversely, an underdog would be listed at +1.5 and would need to either
win straight up or lose by exactly one run for their
bet to cash.
If Cleveland
wins straight up or loses by 3 - points or fewer, your second half
bet would
win.
Ohio has
won five
straight while tonight's opponent, Buffalo, has lost five of their last six games, possibly explaining the lopsided
betting percentages.
#NBAPlayoff underdogs receiving more than 50 % of ML
bets and less 50 % of spread
bets have gone 62 - 76
straight up with +41.02 units
won.
If Los Angeles
wins straight up or loses by 16 - points or fewer, your second half
bet would
win.
If Atlanta
wins straight up or loses by 7 - points or fewer, your full game
bet would
win.
Instead of laying -500 or more to
win straight up, sprinkle a half unit on two prop
bets: Mayweather by TKO, KO or DQ -LRB--155) and Mayweather by decision (+250).
If you
bet Withita State on College Baskets on the money line this season, you
won 100 %, and very few of those money lines fully reflected the very high odds that Wchita State would
win straight up.
-- Underdogs went 6 - 7
straight up this week, and
betting every dog on the moneyline would have resulted in a gain of +3.22 units
won.
As a result of the sportsbooks giving road dog New York an additional point, the
betting public is giving the slight edge to Rex and the Jets either
winning straight up or losing by two or less in Philly against Vick and the Eagles.
All day it looked easy, the way it has all season, as the Packers have
won seven
straight games and are the closest thing to a safe
bet in a wildly unpredictable league.
Taking the moneyline means you're
betting the team to
win straight up, so the margin doesn't come into consideration.
When the spread is less than three - points, bettors often gravitate towards the moneyline, and we have seen similar one - sided public
betting on the Steelers to
win straight up.
The public fascination with Carson Palmer and the new - look Raiders continues, with nearly seven out of ten spread
bets banking on Oakland to either
win straight up or lose by two points or less against the 3 - 8 Dolphins.
Our advice:
Bet $ 700
straight - up on the Vikings moneyline to
win $ 350 and $ 250 on a ML parlay with Minnesota and Pittsburgh.
However, nearly seven out of ten spread
bets are taking the points and banking on # 1 LSU to either
win straight up or lose by four or less at Bryant - Denny Stadium.
According to our public
betting trends, 62 % of moneyline tickets and 77 % of moneyline dollars have taken the Cavaliers to
win straight up.
This means that if you
bet one unit on each of the 16 underdogs to
win straight - up, you would be +14.74 units, increasing profits over 100 %.
In addition to this one - sided public
betting on the spread, bettors have also been taking Golden State (opened -255) to
win straight up.
With the unranked Aggies coming to Bill Snyder Stadium, the
betting public is taking the points and overwhelmingly in favor of the # 14 Wildcats either
winning straight up or losing by four or less in front of their home crowd.
It's hard to
bet against the World No. 1 when he's
won three
straight events.
Rather than placing one
bet, bettors could instead roll over the moneyline and take their favorite team to
win straight up.
Betting on Bournemouth to
win straight up is risky, but at +0.5 or +1 goals, they're a solid
bet at home.
Early bettors are confident in the Chiefs who have
won 10
straight games, and 74 % of early
bets on KC has moved the juice from -110 to -120 at Pinnacle, and from -110 to -130 at CRIS.
Hardly anyone wants to
bet on the draw, and even fewer want to
bet on West Ham to
win straight up.
Spread
betting trends (all records are against the spread): Kentucky 7 - 1 in nonconference games, 8 - 2 NCAA Tournament games as a favorite, 16 - 5 to Big East, but 3 - 7 off
straight up
win.
Likewise, if a lower - ranked team goes to a title - chaser and parks the bus, but you expect the hosts» extra quality to tell in the end, the draw / home
win bet will offer better odds than the
straight home
win.
In this type of
bet, there is no spread to beat, your team needs only to
win the game «
straight up» (SU), and there is no requirement for how many points they need to
win by.
Burnley need to
win this game as it could be all over for them so
straight up
bets either way are the way forward.
Bet Labs is a software tool that cuts through the bullshit narratives of why teams
win and goes
straight to the data.
The Jags have lost two
straight, but that's not something bettors should worry about in the Wild Card round or when placing a
bet on Jacksonville +900 to
win the AFC.
Possibly the simplest and common type of curling
bet,
betting on the Moneyline is essentially
betting straight up which team you believe will
win the match.
That took their
winning streak at home to eight
straight games across all competitions but they have only taken one clean sheet in their last six games at the Etihad, and both teams to score is a 6/5 quote at William Hill * (
Betting Odds taken January 7th, 2018 at 7.00 pm).