ErnieDiGregorio wrote:bwgood77 wrote:ErnieDiGregorio wrote:
not listening to handicappers is your first step towards getting more picks right.
they arent telling you what they think will happen. They are telling you what the majority of the public believes will happen.
Las Vegas is like 5% of what goes on in gambling across the united States. Theres billions more illegally going on.
they are neither the authority nor the indicator of what goes on,just the commercially acceptable choice.
And those other 95% use vegas point spreads to actually lay money on games unless they have their head up their ass.
they do and they dont. Everyone moves the lines like they feel like doing.
anyone can become a bookie and make up their own lines. You will get plenty of people on both sides of it.
I said illegal,you dont know what the underworld is doing with the lines.
I have plenty of experience. Any guy who wants business will start with Vegas lines which are made to get equal bets on both sides. If a particular bookie gets more action one way, he will adjust the thread at that point (or lay off bets to another book) to make his sides as equal as possible.
You are making a losing argument. Quite while you're behind.
