Weekly Review Oct 23rd
I am sure it just wasn't
www.Betcris.com that enjoyed a great week this
week; in fact I would assume all bookmakers had
terrific numbers with lots of terrific results
on the weekend. NFL Sunday finished the week in
fine fashion for bookmakers with some extraordinary
results which could be attributed to some ‘big'
injuries.
Houston defeated Jacksonville
with a less than 100% quarterback in Byron Leftwich
and two other star Quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger
(Pittsburgh) and Matt Hasselbeck (Seattle) had
to leave the game early which resulted in their
teams losing. It just goes to show that you can
never know what will happen in Football sometimes
and the unexpected can happen like it did this
week. Our customers, who have been on a terrific
run betting Teaser's so far this year, finally
came back to earth with a ‘thud' after the
three mentioned unexpected results. College Football
was also another good week for bookmakers with
some of the big line moves failing to get the
money.
Those of you that have been
betting golf would have seen the extraordinarily
low price for Niclas Fasth to win the Mallorca
Classic on the European Tour. I had the low quote
of 3/1 for Fasth to win, and I wish I could say
that I was a genius to have him so low in the
betting, but the truth is he should have been
30/1!
Baseball is now locked at
1 win a piece for St Louis and Detroit but the
action has been great. We have a couple of people
who stand to collect a lot of money on Detroit
if they win with some big 70/1 bets on them before
the season started.
Best
games for the house...
The best College football
game for us this week was the overtime victory
by Texas A&M over Oklahoma State. Oklahoma
State had a lot of betting support, so much so
that we originally opened Texas A&M a 1 point
favorite, but closed Oklahoma State being a 2
½ point favorite. Texas A&M prevailed
in the overtime 34-33.
Minnesota with the help from
an injury to Matt Hasselbeck defeated Seattle
31-13. Seattle was a favorite among teaser bettors
opening at a 7 point favorite and even closing
lower at 6.5 points. Houston was also a great
game to ‘breakup' teaser bets, but we did
receive lots of money on Houston on Straight wagers.
We wouldn't change the result though as we just
have so many people betting teaser bets now.
Tampa Bay pulled off another
dramatic win to defeat Philadelphia 23-21. The
weather was extremely hot in Tampa Bay which could
have attributed to a few turnovers made by Donovan
McNabb. Philadelphia was another team which was
involved in many teaser bets as they were between
a 5 ½ and 6 point favorite.
Best games for the public...
From the moment we opened
UAB a 7 ½ point favorite against Marshall,
we received bets on Marshall to win or at the
‘plus' points. We closed UAB down 1 ½
points at kick off being a 6 point favorite. Marshall
prevailed 31-24. Sunday's best NFL result was
New England defeating Buffalo 28-6. New England
always seems to attract money, and this year Buffalo
has been hard to ‘sell' so unless there
was going to be an upset, a New England result
was always going to be in the public's favor.
Until next week,
Shane, Betcris sports
desk.
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