Monday Nighter
- Thread starter AL FARR
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I again ask why choose when it?s a winner on the normal spread. And I also believe it?s safe to say on any team you do hit on, probably would?ve hit against the normal number also but you?re laying all that extra juice for no reason it?s not worth playing A teaser On the parlay. Or play both.
Hate jiving the man so man easy outs with the odds your made to lay.
I understand what you are saying and you're right for the most part that playing the straight line is going to cover usually, but it's all irrelevant if your not on the right side. As someone who plays mostly teasers and very little straight lines I'll give you my perspective.
I look at playing teasers as buying insurance on my play, it's a calculated risk vs reward situation. Betting straight lines are usually set anywhere between -110 up to -120 but typically -110. For instance, the eagles last night were giving 6 @-110, I played a 6.5 teaser @-120, a 10% difference for extra room just in case I wasn't on the right side. Granted you have to be correct on 2+ bets depending on your teaser and the way I played it would have covered betting the straight lines on both but for 10% extra juice the reward outweighs the risk. If I knew the sanchize was going to play most the game instead of McCoy I would have took the straight line all day.
Over the years of betting NFL I'm always amazed how accurate the sharps setting the lines are, their accuracy is very consistent. If I can take those lines and add 6 to 10 points either way I like my chances at a 10% to 20% juice hit because juice doesn't matter to me if I'm winning at profitability rate. Also, I just dont consider myself that great of a straight line player, very inconsistent up and down. I should tail some of the great straight line players on this forum more than I do.
At the end of the day, whether you play straight lines or teasers or parlays it doesn't matter if you're not on the right side but at least with teasers I can be on the wrong side and still have a chance to cover and all it cost is a little extra juice.
