Why Can't You......

**Dead Money** · 10-24-05, 02:52 PM

anyone???

**Razz** · 10-24-05, 06:44 PM

I guess you should take the lack of replies as the fact that no one knows. I surely don't.

**Illusion** · 10-24-05, 09:17 PM

I couldn't tell you either, sorry.

**Shawn01** · 10-24-05, 09:19 PM

Maybe it's The Man trying to keep you down

**maritime** · 10-28-05, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by Dead Money

Why can't you parlay a runline with say the over??

Tonite I was looking at the Astros -1.5 ( alt rl) and the over 7.5

What is the logic of not being able to place this bet?

Why just the moneyline and the total within the same parlay?

Thanks

You can do it but only at certain sportsbooks...like BetCris for example. In fact at Cris you can even parlay MLB 1st half (or 2nd half) run lines with an over/under. I believe at Diamond International (BetCris 'lil brother) you can do it as well.

**onlooker** · 10-29-05, 12:28 AM

Originally posted by maritime

You can do it but only at certain sportsbooks...like BetCris for example. In fact at Cris you can even parlay MLB 1st half (or 2nd half) run lines with an over/under. I believe at Diamond International (BetCris 'lil brother) you can do it as well.

Thanks for the info and heads up on where to do this.

**JoshW** · 10-29-05, 06:28 AM

Originally posted by Dead Money

Why can't you parlay a runline with say the over??

Tonite I was looking at the Astros -1.5 ( alt rl) and the over 7.5

What is the logic of not being able to place this bet?

Why just the moneyline and the total within the same parlay?

Thanks

The reason is because the two plays in the parlay are correlated. If Houston wins by a blowout, is more likely that both bets will win. 5-3, 6-2, 7-1, 8-0 are lots of likely combinations that are wins for both legs.

At the same time the DEGREE that the bets are correlated isn't so great that many books will really worry about it. Many books will let you play this, because they don't want to piss you off, and even if there is some correlation, it is often not enough to overcome the juice.

Situations like these are why Pinnacle isn't really the type of book that is recommended for parlay players, because they restrict almost any parlay that might be even a little correlated.

**Dead Money** · 10-29-05, 07:31 PM

Thanks for the responses... That was at Bet Jam btw