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Old 04-19-2010, 10:12 PM  
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Originally Posted by will76 View Post
The best games to play IMO would be poker, where the house just takes a rake, and you are playing against other people. In most cases you can count on 25% of them being idiots and blowing their money because they don't know what they are doing, then if you are really good and better then everyone else you can get the odds tilted in your favor. But even then you still need some luck.
Actually sports betting is similar. The lines are determined by how people bet. Sure the odds makers set the opening line but if everyone bets one way the line improves the other way. You're betting against the masses. In the case of this Blazers game too many people had them as underdogs so the line was heavily in favor for them.
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