a bad beat
you capped the game correctly, it's all being played out just like you thought, you're winning comfortably the whole game
then there's a score with 2 minutes left and a meaningless hail mary at the end and your team wins but doesn't cover
you capped the game correctly, it's all being played out just like you thought, you're winning comfortably the whole game
then there's a score with 2 minutes left and a meaningless hail mary at the end and your team wins but doesn't cover
Posted this in college forum, but makes sense here. Bad beats I believe are a real thing, but consider:
Last week 25 out of the 55 "main board" college football games had final scores that fell within a TD of the closing line. So, nearly 50% of games are decided ATS by one score or less, which, as we know, can a lot of times come in the form of pick sixes at the end of games, turnovers, fumbles, missed or made FG, or just plain goofy stuff like Hail Mary hook and ladders that shouldn't have even been plays in the first place. As the volume of games on your card gets higher, the more likely these situations will affect you, good and bad. The goal is to find as many games (winning sides of course) that fall out in that other 50% - games that are never in doubt, and where one bad bounce here or there makes no difference ATS.
The worst thing you could do is to change your strategy, either in size of wager or number of wagers, because of these things.
HW
Last week 25 out of the 55 "main board" college football games had final scores that fell within a TD of the closing line. So, nearly 50% of games are decided ATS by one score or less, which, as we know, can a lot of times come in the form of pick sixes at the end of games, turnovers, fumbles, missed or made FG, or just plain goofy stuff like Hail Mary hook and ladders that shouldn't have even been plays in the first place. As the volume of games on your card gets higher, the more likely these situations will affect you, good and bad. The goal is to find as many games (winning sides of course) that fall out in that other 50% - games that are never in doubt, and where one bad bounce here or there makes no difference ATS.
The worst thing you could do is to change your strategy, either in size of wager or number of wagers, because of these things.
HW
I know there is some that qualify still as "bad beats"
-absolutely obvious wrong call by the ref
-missed extra point (more common now with the new rules, but few years ago it has messed up some bets)
-the garbage time backdoor covers (NBA- they score 30+pts in the 60sec of the game and goes over by 1)
-absolutely obvious wrong call by the ref
-missed extra point (more common now with the new rules, but few years ago it has messed up some bets)
-the garbage time backdoor covers (NBA- they score 30+pts in the 60sec of the game and goes over by 1)
Some say there are no bad beats but there are some that sting like hell. I had a friend who was playing the mandatory payout on a pick-9 at the track. He hit the first 8 races. He caught the 9th on a 15-1 shot. His horse was DQed. They moved up a 10-1 shot. Nobody hit the pick-9, 8 paid 15k which he won but the pool was 1.2 million which he would have took the whole thing if not for the DQ. OUCH 
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