Archive for January, 2006
All four games this weekend were rematches of regular season games. As such, the one team we think can learn the best from their previous match up is Carolina.
Defense is all Chicago has and da’Bears will be lucky to put up 14 on the board. for Carolina, Jake Delhomme and Steve Smith will light up the skies over the city that starts with a C, ends with an O, and has hicag in the middle.
We say: Take Carolina +3 and if we take stack some Green from Pittsburgh, we’ll likely float the profit on the OVER at 30.5
January 14th, 2006
A 2-0 Saturday brings us to Sunday.
With Pittsburgh visiting Indy, the public is looking at their last match up as a barometer for this game. Big Ben was just getting back, and the Colts were relishing the home field for Monday Night. Pittsburgh is playing some inspired ball right now and Momentum would seem to be on their side.
But then again, Indy - in games that mattered - were never so much as even threatened this season.
This game is a tough call for us so we’re lightening the wager by a bit and go against the public.
We say: Take Pittsburgh +10
January 14th, 2006
In the nightcap, New England visits Denver for a rematch of the Denver 28-23 victory.
Frankly, the previous final doesn’t tell the whole story and most people are missing that. Denver was up 28-3 in the 3rd before they put the engine on cruise control. Sure New England was a different team back then, but Denver at home only giving the 3. Bank it baby.
We say: Take Denver -3.
January 13th, 2006
Washington at Seattle
What can you say about the ’skins. Quite the turnaround for Joe Gibbs and Washington fans are relishing in the glory. But Seattle has Mr. Touchdown, Shaun Alexander.
Sorry Skinnies, but we like Seattle. Injuries are catching up and Seattle is just too strong in the red zone.
We say: Take Seattle -9.5
January 13th, 2006
This really isn’t helping to dispell the fad status of Poker like we hoped.
WickedChopsPoker, citing Card Player, reports that 34 players won north of a million dollars in 2005. To put that into a bit of perspective, their were 78 tournament golfers who eclipsed that number in 2005 (and in the last year before the pre-Tiger era, their were only 9).
January 9th, 2006
Saturday, 1/14/06
Seattle -9 v. Washington
O/U: 42
Denver -3 v. New England
O/U: 44
Sunday, 1/15/06
Indianapolis -8.5 v. Pittsburgh
O/U: 46.5
Chicago -3 v. Carolina
O/U: 31.5
The biggest moves thus far by the “Public” are on Indy which has already been bet up to -9.5/10 in most places.
January 9th, 2006
Now that football season is wrapping up and we can turn our attention to more important things like vacation. And, maybe just a bit on hoops.
But the question Henry Abbot from TrueHoop.com is asking is “Who is William Wesley?”. Who is the guy that has Michael Jordan and LeBron James on speed dial, and according to Brian Windhorst of the Akron Beacon Journal, is “doesn’t wear a uniform, doesn’t have a desk in any basketball front office and never speaks to the media. Yet, depending on whom you talk to, he is either one of the most powerful and well-liked men in the NBA or everything that is wrong with the underbelly of pro sports.”
Frankly, after reading through the few pages of notes, facts, rumor and inuendo, we are fascinated as well. The popular theory seems to be that he is a power-runner for the league’s elite:
“Welcome to the World of Runners
Eric’s story is this: Wes is the finest runner the NBA has ever known.
What’s a runner? There are hundreds of them. They are guys who befriend basketball players and then deliver them to scouts in exchange for cash.
Eric says he is a runner himself. He says he used to be a runner for agent Arn Tellem. Tellem, says Eric, paid him a total of $250,000 to steer five players his way through the years. (I’m not going to play sleuth on that one, but for what it’s worth, Eric is from New Jersey and says they all got shoe deals from adidas.)”
January 9th, 2006
The bodybuilding murder drama that has continued to grip those in the ‘industry’ is moving heavily into the mainstream.
We are just humble gamblers who with no ties to the ‘industry’ other than a few cardio sessions here and there to fight the losing battle against alcohol and drug chocolate donut binges, but the story is rather intriguing.
So, since we keep getting a ton of search engine traffic, we point you to the Craig Titus & Kelly Ryan Investigation Blog who we should also point out were kind enough to give us a shout a while back. Start a fresh cycle of Deca and head on over for all the juicy details (we apologize for the poor attempt at humor).
January 5th, 2006
Signs are pointing to the cooling off of the Poker ‘fad.’ And we say it’s about freakin’ time. Maybe we can get back to having a decent game again amongst friends.
From MSNBC:
The worldwide poker industry appears to have hit every possible inside straight, long-shot flush and unlikely full house that it could, accumulating a large pot of cash in the process.
But as the holiday season nears an end, the industry’s luck seems to be running out as boxed sets of cards and chips are discounted, ratings fade for some poker-themed television shows and shares of a poker-linked stock slump.
January 5th, 2006
According to old school oddsmaker turned novelist, Paul Czuchra, the industry of sports gambling is barely surviving.
From the Las Vegas Sun:
“The industry is really hanging by a thread,” Czuchra said of Nevada-style legal sports betting.
Some major casinos “are not really enamored of sports betting,” Czuchra said. “They figure they have to have it available, but the only reason some places have a sports book is because they know if they don’t, their casino customers will walk across the street to make their bets there.”
You might say Big Gaming views sports betting as a necessary evil. Czuchra has a more colorful phrase for it.
“Sports betting is the unwanted stepchild of the gaming business,” Czuchra said.
January 5th, 2006
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