JJ, you make it so obvious that you dont have a clue.
Why would a sharp bookmaker want even action?????
Think about it.
It's not gambling if you have accurate numbers.
Of course you need to know the limits to which you want to be exposed, and being properly financed takes care of this.
So you are saying that books like PINNACLE are trying to achieve balanced action???
Oh yeah, I forgot, they are "in trouble".
Sportsbooks are businesses that try to achieve maximum profit potential. If you are beating your customers, you go after more. And you do this by lowering prices to draw from competition. Trying to merely get 50% action on each side for each game is something the books want you to believe.
There are situations that differ, I doubt you would see this--you make far too many wild generalizations. The difference between you and the "dumb" bookmakers is that they are running a business and over 90% of them are doing fine, and you are sitting at a posting forum all day talking out of your ass.
Why would a sharp bookmaker want even action?????
Think about it.
It's not gambling if you have accurate numbers.
Of course you need to know the limits to which you want to be exposed, and being properly financed takes care of this.
So you are saying that books like PINNACLE are trying to achieve balanced action???
Oh yeah, I forgot, they are "in trouble".
Sportsbooks are businesses that try to achieve maximum profit potential. If you are beating your customers, you go after more. And you do this by lowering prices to draw from competition. Trying to merely get 50% action on each side for each game is something the books want you to believe.
There are situations that differ, I doubt you would see this--you make far too many wild generalizations. The difference between you and the "dumb" bookmakers is that they are running a business and over 90% of them are doing fine, and you are sitting at a posting forum all day talking out of your ass.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jjgold:
Dicky posting right now if you really want to know with a g-string underwear and wearing no shirt and 3 rope chains on (56k). Run DMC type stuff.
It is not a pretty site I might add.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LMAO.....good come back. Stick with it....
Dicky posting right now if you really want to know with a g-string underwear and wearing no shirt and 3 rope chains on (56k). Run DMC type stuff.
It is not a pretty site I might add.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LMAO.....good come back. Stick with it....
Good linesmen have opinions. They need the Don Best screen to see the other prices on the board. They put up a low price to get the action on the side they want.
They do have to limit their exposure. They are booking not gambling. Of course they need the proper bank roll too.
It is pretty rare to have a game with even risk on each side. The linesmen that haven't been around long and do not have an opinion will try to even out the money.
The highest paid linesmen and most successful books have opinions and use them to clean up.
They do have to limit their exposure. They are booking not gambling. Of course they need the proper bank roll too.
It is pretty rare to have a game with even risk on each side. The linesmen that haven't been around long and do not have an opinion will try to even out the money.
The highest paid linesmen and most successful books have opinions and use them to clean up.
JJ,
You seem a likeable person and probably, great fun to be with on a nights drinking. However, would it not be better that you asked a question of something that you do not know, rather than giving an uninformed opinion. I ask this as you said in a thread that spread betting was a rip off, but obviously did not have any idea of its concept. Nobody is expected to know everything.
You seem a likeable person and probably, great fun to be with on a nights drinking. However, would it not be better that you asked a question of something that you do not know, rather than giving an uninformed opinion. I ask this as you said in a thread that spread betting was a rip off, but obviously did not have any idea of its concept. Nobody is expected to know everything.
