Parlay hedge question

[Big Bear]

Lets say i parlay 3 favorites and it pays out big

should make small individual bets on each of the 3 underdogs incase one of
them messes up my parlay???


i got 1 hour of sleep last night so i'm not thinking straght. does this make sense to hedge in this way?

[konck]

[blackbeSSt]

give us some numbers. how much did you lay and what are the 3 prices?

but ideally, no. its not a smart move.

[DrIn$entive]

Terribly -EV to do that.

[Big Bear]

okay i will provide more information..

[Big Bear]

I have a 5 team open parlay. So far I have 2 winners Texas Rangers on Monday and Dodgers on Tuesday. I need 3 more to cash out. It is $100 parlay.

so far it pays $100 . But I am thinking of adding Tigers ML, Red Sox ML , and Angels ML today. which would pay $839 if all 3 win...

so i was thinking about doing that and betting $50 each on Blue Jays ML and Rays ML since they are the early games...

[Big Bear]

the games about to start somebody chime in quick

[BigBoi]

Tigers scare me. Yanks better one in my opinion.

[Covy]

If you play 3 games...make 2 of em early and the third one a late heavy favorite (-190+) so you can get +170 on the underdog etc.

[blackbeSSt]

ok so you put $100 on a parlay. if you put $50 on 2 teams to hedge the parlay, one of them (either the parlay or hedge play) has to lose.