Its there any unwritten rule or any ethics involved in the lines a book offers

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

Like if you look across the board, most sportsbooks seem to always come out with the same lines, they move there lines accordingly. Is there any ethics involved in booking. Like you cant offer a line better than your competition?

Why wouldn't a up and coming sportsbook offer better lines than the competition to attract bettors and then push off their action on the bigger books?

if a line was +3/-3 across the board.

and you offered +1/-1 at -115, you'd get most if not all of the action on the favorite if you were at least established. Then you could push off all your uneven action on +3 -110 at a bigger book. I mean long term they'd catch onto this and kick out everybody who was pushing off action on them but wouldn't this work with the right scenarios?

[lyon804]

Sounds like you idea is a big risk taker to the books. Probably why none have tried this approach.

[roasthawg]

Whenever the game was decided with the favorite winning by 1, 2, or 3 points you'd lose big.

[sickler]

Some bookies do lay off action.

[durito]

what?

you might want to rethink that. that would leave them open to disaster.

pinny/cris control the us market, if they move, everyone else moves or they are ****ed. any book with off market #'s is either aggressive about kicking people out, or they are going broke.

[Hoja Verdes]

The free market prevents this, it's very simple why this wouldn't work.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

Whenever the game was decided with the favorite winning by 1, 2, or 3 points you'd lose big.

Id be pushing off the action on +3 so if the game won by 1,2, or 3; id be making serious bank not losing money

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

what? you might want to rethink that. that would leave them open to disaster. pinny/cris control the us market, if they move, everyone else moves or they are ****ed. any book with off market #'s is either aggressive about kicking people out, or they are going broke.

nvm i got what u meant i was thinking backwards there durito, got yah

[magynuck]

Umm...out of business in a week.
I will take all the -1 I can. Why would you get any action on your +1?
Only number you do not lose money on is score hits the -1.

[durito]

Can you explain, i was just thinking this over real fast. How would u go broke/be in trouble when you'd lay off your action(-1) on a bigger Number(+3)?

when you take action at -1 you are making a bet at +1 +115. the +3 offered by other books is on the same side. you have to lay -3 to be on the other side.

[durito]

books that put out off market #'s do it because they have sufficient #'s of idiot clients that will take -7.5 even though 342 other books have -7. kick out everyone that plays +7.5 and you have yourself a nice base of square idiots to take from every year.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

when you take action at -1 you are making a bet at +1 +115. the +3 offered by other books is on the same side. you have to lay -3 to be on the other side.

Yea i was thinking this from a player perspective as when i push off my wagers, didnt do it from the books perspective, i corrected my earlier post

[magynuck]

To try to make it clearer when everybody is betting your -1 so you are betting +1 when the market is +3.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

To try to make it clearer when everybody is betting your -1 so you are betting +1 when the market is +3.

Yea i got it, was just a quick thought that came into my head i dint actually write it down or look at it from the book's perspective. was thinking purely player perspective being able to get a better line. yea i get it

I was thinking getting -1 and +3 would be a dream but didn't think of it book perspective of +1 and -3