Tourney Wrapup II — The 3 Point Shooting Teams
By A.J. Coltrane For purposes of Vegas/March Madness this year I thought it might be helpful to consider how 3-point dependent individual teams were during the regular season. Some of that screwing...
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Sports Teams and Bookmaking
By Blaidd Drwg I think this is the bookie that got Pete Rose in trouble. From Pearls Before Swine on 5/28. Just a note – this is actually in the middle of an ongoing series. In case you haven’t...
View ArticleThe Idiot Auburn Fan
by A.J. Coltrane There was an Auburn fan who stood to make $50,000 last night had they won the national championship. Rather than hedge his bet he chose to ride it out, even though Auburn was about a...
View ArticleVegas Thoughts, 2014
by A.J. Coltrane I had pretty much the same year that I had last year — 22-14 (61.1%) on straight bets. I lost the one money line that I chose to play: Providence were 4 point underdogs against UNC...
View ArticleThe New ESPN “Odds And Info” Page
by A.J. Coltrane ESPN has what I think is a new page — “Odds and Info”. It’s on their front page tab right above “Poker”. Clicking through takes you to a page called “Chalk”, which is about as neutral...
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Vegas, Day 0.
by A.J. Coltrane We arrived in the casino on Wednesday, early evening. The late, tournament “play-in” games hadn’t started yet. The game that interested me was Boise St. versus Dayton. I’d seen both...
View ArticleVegas, Day 1.
by A.J. Coltrane Day 1 was Thursday.. …One sportsbook said Thursday was its biggest single-day win in memory. “Epic day, absolutely,” Jay Rood, vice president of MGM race and sports, said of Thursday....
View ArticleVegas, Day 2.
by A.J. Coltrane Day 2 was Friday. On Friday I went 6-10, bringing my total for the trip to 13-18. The Thursday losses were a bunch of weird early morning upsets. Friday felt like a decent enough day,...
View ArticleVegas, Day 3.
by A.J. Coltrane Day 3 was Saturday. For the afternoon, a member of our group decided to rent a cabana upstairs by the pool. No kids allowed anywhere near us. We had our own TV in the cabana and an...
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Vegas, Day 4.
by A.J. Coltrane Vegas, Day 4. Sunday. The last day of sports gambling before we fly out on Monday. By Sunday morning I should be done placing bets. What that means is that I don’t have to focus on the...
View ArticleBack From Vegas 2016
by A.J. Coltrane The gambling on basketball didn’t go quite as well this year — the total was a few more losses than wins. Not a disaster, but it could have gone better. The over/unders didn’t go well....
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