Originally Posted by
lines freak
Alot of books do that.
They dont want you taking good teams like Texas and the over and Yankees and the over, and getting parlay odds with the over. if they cover the run line, good chance it's going over the total too. They know you cant make much witrhout risking much with the favorite straight up, so you are getting away with one, betting the run line an parlaying the total, which can be like winning one game instead of a parlay.
Like football, if you have a total of 35, and an underdog of 10 points, logic would seem to say take the dog and the under and hope it's a boring game. Hard to win both if u take the favorite. Again, in the right spots.
But some books let you do what you want, they are becoming fewer and fewer.