Originally Posted by
wantitall4moi
when you buy and sell points youre already buying and selling and paying vig on numbers you wont need most of the time, so boks are still making money of you. plus youre overpaying because they can charge you anything and you think by comparing it to someplace else and the price you can get there getting a 'bargain.
If you have a team -4 -110 for example as the line. You bet the +4 side -110. But instead you buy it to say +10 and pay -190. If you see some other place offering +10 -210 you think you have a 'better' number. But you start off +10 for -190. So at halftime your +4 teams (before you bought) is down 11. The half time line is the fav -1 -120. Then what? THAT would then be a polish middle. Because then you cant 'protect' your original bet with a half time play. So youre then laying the original -190 and another -120. If the fav and the dog tie the second half you lose both sides. Your team still loses by the original 11 they wee down at the half.
That is going to happen every once in awhile as well if you do this a lot. Especially if youre buying points and spening way too much for them, or spending anything at all actually.
If youre going to buy points youre better off teasing opposites sides of games with each other at different books. Or opposite sides of games you are looking to 'middle' with other games.
Trust me the books have the prices set so you arent going to make money long term doing it. Especially if youre betting both sides at the same book. Pinnacle and a couple asian books are maybe the only ones you might find a slight advantage at because they offer better vig and will move numbers more to entice action. But any Costa Rica book no way.