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07/17/2010 - Winnipeg, MB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Vince Covello is one-over through 11 holes, but is still in the first during Saturday's suspended third round of The Players Cup.
Covello is nine-under par for the championship and one shot ahead at Pine Ridge Golf Club.
There was a five-hour weather delay on Saturday with the final groups yet to tee off. When play resumed, the final threesome got through 11 holes before play was called for darkness.
The golfers will return to the course at 8:15 a.m. (et) Sunday morning to finish the third round. The plan is to start the final round at 11:10 a.m. in threesomes off both the first and 10th tees. The final group will tentatively go off at 1:00 p.m.
Jose de Jesus Rodriguez is two-under through 13 holes and is second at eight- under par. Richard Lee is also two-under after 13 and is third at seven-under par.
Lee Curry and Brady Stockton are tied for fourth place at six-under par and are on the course.
Rob Grube and Josh Habig are the leaders in the clubhouse after both shot rounds of five-under 66 on Saturday. They finished at five-under 208 and are tied for sixth with Mike Grob, Alan McLean, Johnny Bloomfield, Danny Sahl and Aaron Goldberg.
NOTES: Covello has never won on the Canadian Tour, but finished third in February...Brock Mackenzie, the leading money winner in 2010 on the Canadian Tour, is one-over through 13 hole and is four-under for the championship.
<< One More Laugh captures Meadowlands Pace
East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - One More Laugh, driven by Tim Tetrick,
turned the tables on Rock N Roll Heaven to win Saturday's $1 million
Meadowlands Pace at The Meadowlands. The three-year-old gelding covered the
mile in
<< Youkilis' sac fly lifts Red Sox over Rangers in 11th
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kevin Youkilis' sacrifice fly in the 11th
inning gave the Boston Red Sox a 3-2 win over the Texas Rangers in the third
contest of a four-game set from Fenway Park.
With Alexi Ogando (3-1) on the mo
<< Wambach leads U.S. women over Sweden
East Hartford, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Abby Wambach scored two goals to lead the
United States women's national team to a 3-0 win over Sweden on Saturday night
in a friendly at Rentschler Field.
Megan Rapinoe opened the scoring in the 34th min
<< A's rally to slip past Royals
Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Adam Rosales drove in the go-ahead run
with a single in the top of the ninth inning, as the Oakland Athletics rallied
past the Kansas City Royals, 6-5, in the second test of a three-game series at
Kauffma
FC Dallas snaps Real's 10-game unbeaten streak >>
Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brek Shea and Atiba Harris scored in the second
half and FC Dallas snapped Real Salt Lake's 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0
win Saturday night at Pizza Hut Park.
Shea opened the scoring in the 69th minute an
Edwards spins out Keselowski and takes Gateway win >>
Madison, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The feud between Carl Edwards and Brad
Keselowski in NASCAR reached another boiling point on Saturday when Edwards
spun out Keselowski for the lead coming out of the final turn of the last lap
to win
Kansas City holds on for draw at Colorado >>
Commerce City, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Davy Arnaud scored in the 20th minute and
the Kansas City Wizards held on for a 1-1 draw against the Colorado Rapids on
Saturday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Kansas City earned its first road win
Rivera's HR lifts Angels to win over M's >>
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Juan Rivera went 3-for-4 and hit the go-ahead
home run in the seventh inning, lifting the Angels to a 7-6 victory over the
Seattle Mariners.
Mike Napoli went 2-for-4 with a home run for the Angels, who had
Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting lines.
In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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