eskay said:
Eskay, it's really not hard to scalp bases if you get together even just 4 or 5 different sportsbooks and check on the lines a few periodic times a day. 1st and most importantly are overnight lines. The best way to go after these are to hit the "big name" pitchers before Joe Public does. Also, if two of those big pitchers are against each other, pound under. Overnighters at Pinny I've found to be the best, but if you can find a book that doesn't keep up with their overnighters even for low limits, you can make some easy cash.
Then check back at about 9:30-10:00 EST, when all of the other books that don't do overnight lines open theirs up. You'll find while a book like Pinnacle is updating their lines, that the openers on the other books will still be going up. Early sharp bettors get their bets in between about 9:30 and 11:30 EST.
After this, there's usually little need to check back at any point before 30 minutes before the start of the games. You'll be able to catch slow-moving books all the time.
Now by no means am I an expert at this, as this is my first season trying to scalp MLB, but it's been extremely successful to this point, and my bankroll has grown over 6% in doing it. 6% may seem like a rather tame number to most of the cappers out there, but I've said it before and will say it again... It's a trudge, not a race. If I end up 25% over the course of the season I'm EXTREMELY happy.
Also, don't limit yourself to bases. Check out overnight NBA lines, tennis lines, golf matchups, Nascar matchups... none of this takes too much time to do, but in order to keep up with it, one must be disciplined enough to sit there and check at periodic intervals. I'd say I probably put 2 hours a day into scalping baseball while checking my email, etc, then on late Wednesday night with golf matchups if there are any, early Sunday morning for Nascar scalps, and I usually try to check tennis nightly. Every now and then you'll find soccer scalps on the Asian (spread) lines as well. So don't think if your goal is to scalp for profit that you are regulated to bases. I've found that golf matchups can be EXTREMELY profitable percentage wise... I've gotten scalps as good as +145 and -105 in golf. Though most books have a very low limit on these matchups, even if it's only on $200 ($100 a book) it's still profit.
Just keep your eyes open. And as you probably know, the more books, the better. What I did was set myself a goal. When my bankroll got to "x" I yanked some cash and opened up a new book with it. When my total bankroll reaches "y" I'll do the same again. Also helps collecting on those bonuses the books offer.
As far as what books... Pinny, Millenium, Canbet, PlaytheScore, SportsInteraction, Bet365, and BetJamaica are the ones that I use for scalping. CanBet is real nice because of the 7 cent line. Don't ever choose a book with a 20 cent runline. Why get a 20 cent line when you can get 5 cent lines in so many other places! (I'm aware that Bet365 uses a 20 cent line... I had the book before and still use it every now and then because they're ridiculously slow at updating lines and I can catch steam for scalps all the time)
--AFLGuru:toast:
