Fine, but there is no way any book wants all that action on one side at the same price. Imagine if the bets were made ligit. during actual crunch time. After every nickel bet the line moves at least a cent (conservative), so by the time Revere had everything down the line should have been Manchester more or less a -160 favorite. Can you see Revere laying every number a penny at a time all the way up to -160? Now lets say they got some buy back along the way, which may have been very likely if the game was being moved as it should have, given the one sided action. Then it would be realistic to give Revere more action beyond the initial $500 to offset action taken against his side.
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