1-5 units (to bet on dogs, to win on favs)
Went 1-2, +1.00u yesterday and hope to at least turn around on the record and have another winning day. It's not much to choose from in soccer, but we got two big hockey semis to play out tonight...
Schalke 04 vs Borussia Dortmund (GER, Bundesliga)
Schalke had a great chance on cutting the lead of the top two teams in their last game, but the 1-0 lead ended up as a 1-2 loss @Wolfsburg. Except from that game they have shown great form with a 3-2-0 record in their last 5 games while winning all of their last 6 home matches.
Their squad is looking good on the injury front and should get Westermann back from injury while Rafinha is back from a suspension.
Dortmund is number 5 in the standing 6 pts behind Schalke, but they're in a bit of a slump right now. After winning 6 in a row and pushing for a medal, they lost 3 in a row before winning 4-1 vs "weak-side" Hannover whos currently on a 16th place with a relegation on their doorstep. For this game, Dortmund gonna miss Barrios who on a suspension.
Schalke -0.5 (+100) 2.0u
USA vs Finland
Everyone is now talking big-time about the possible USA vs Canada matchup, and even though I'm not one of them yet, I see it happens.
Finland made it this far, but compared to the teams USA has face they Finns have had a easy trip to the semis as their faced Belarus (5-1 W), Germany (5-0 W), Sweden 0-3 L) and Czech (2-0 W). Meanwhile USA have faced some strong teams, even the "before-Olympic-weak side" Norway showed that their no pushovers during this tournament after almost beating both Swiss and Slovakia (who's now in the semi-finals...). Other than Norway who they by the way beat 6-1 they'v been up against a strong defensive team with a red hot goalie in Swiss and Hiller x2 (3-1 and 2-0) and Canada (5-3 win) who's now in the game vs Russia finally showed why they were favored for the Olympic gold. With the play of Miller I see Finland struggles to score as their not exactly an offensive power-house while USA should manage to put at least 1 past Kipper as they've yet to get shut out during this tournament. I also can see this game go under, but things might open up here with a early goal to either teams, so I'm staying away USA reg (+100) 5.0 Stars and Stripes
Canada vs Slovakia
I'm not going to write anything about the sides in this one, as I got Canada in a future bet + don't like to lay a spread of the -2.5 size during the knockout stages even though I'm leaning that way...
But one play I like is the o5.5 even though it's juiced at -150.
With Halaks performance so far this tournament, I don't see him fare better than Nabokov did yesterday. And when you add Canada's inability to shut the door on defense whoever their playing in my honest opinion, you can at at least 1 more there - but I want to say 2.
Canada have been in high scoring games during the whole tournament and need no explanations, but also Slovakia have been running the goal count up in both directions.
Before Wednesdays game Lundquist had yet to let up a goal in this tournament, but what did Slovakia do - just putting 4 behind him with 2 of them during a 10 sec span...
Slovakia opened up the tournament with two straight under, but their last 3 have all hit the over.
Canada vs Slovakia o5.5 (-150) 7.5 maple syrups
BOL to all
Went 1-2, +1.00u yesterday and hope to at least turn around on the record and have another winning day. It's not much to choose from in soccer, but we got two big hockey semis to play out tonight...
Schalke 04 vs Borussia Dortmund (GER, Bundesliga)
Schalke had a great chance on cutting the lead of the top two teams in their last game, but the 1-0 lead ended up as a 1-2 loss @Wolfsburg. Except from that game they have shown great form with a 3-2-0 record in their last 5 games while winning all of their last 6 home matches.
Their squad is looking good on the injury front and should get Westermann back from injury while Rafinha is back from a suspension.
Dortmund is number 5 in the standing 6 pts behind Schalke, but they're in a bit of a slump right now. After winning 6 in a row and pushing for a medal, they lost 3 in a row before winning 4-1 vs "weak-side" Hannover whos currently on a 16th place with a relegation on their doorstep. For this game, Dortmund gonna miss Barrios who on a suspension.
Schalke -0.5 (+100) 2.0u
USA vs Finland
Everyone is now talking big-time about the possible USA vs Canada matchup, and even though I'm not one of them yet, I see it happens.
Finland made it this far, but compared to the teams USA has face they Finns have had a easy trip to the semis as their faced Belarus (5-1 W), Germany (5-0 W), Sweden 0-3 L) and Czech (2-0 W). Meanwhile USA have faced some strong teams, even the "before-Olympic-weak side" Norway showed that their no pushovers during this tournament after almost beating both Swiss and Slovakia (who's now in the semi-finals...). Other than Norway who they by the way beat 6-1 they'v been up against a strong defensive team with a red hot goalie in Swiss and Hiller x2 (3-1 and 2-0) and Canada (5-3 win) who's now in the game vs Russia finally showed why they were favored for the Olympic gold. With the play of Miller I see Finland struggles to score as their not exactly an offensive power-house while USA should manage to put at least 1 past Kipper as they've yet to get shut out during this tournament. I also can see this game go under, but things might open up here with a early goal to either teams, so I'm staying away USA reg (+100) 5.0 Stars and Stripes
Canada vs Slovakia
I'm not going to write anything about the sides in this one, as I got Canada in a future bet + don't like to lay a spread of the -2.5 size during the knockout stages even though I'm leaning that way...
But one play I like is the o5.5 even though it's juiced at -150.
With Halaks performance so far this tournament, I don't see him fare better than Nabokov did yesterday. And when you add Canada's inability to shut the door on defense whoever their playing in my honest opinion, you can at at least 1 more there - but I want to say 2.
Canada have been in high scoring games during the whole tournament and need no explanations, but also Slovakia have been running the goal count up in both directions.
Before Wednesdays game Lundquist had yet to let up a goal in this tournament, but what did Slovakia do - just putting 4 behind him with 2 of them during a 10 sec span...
Slovakia opened up the tournament with two straight under, but their last 3 have all hit the over.
Canada vs Slovakia o5.5 (-150) 7.5 maple syrups
BOL to all