Juice/Vig

These books are absolutely greedy. Back then it was -110 or -105. Legalize gambling has popped it up to -140 to -150 on a coin flip bet.. anyone noticed this?

Edit

now you gotta fund the Doggs to make this up

Years ago William Hill and Bet365 set their ingame live odds at -115 each side, now it is common to see books with -120 ingame on both sides.

The books understand most of their clients are just dumb degenerative gambling addicts and could not care less about normalizing the inflated juice currently offered in the post legalization era of mobile app betting.

Being ultra selective with which books you give action to is more important now than ever.

By 2030 if not sooner, most of us will just stop betting with sportbooks altogether due to logistics and the entire industry's race to the bottom. I am sure something new will evolve over the next several years and these polymarket platforms will morph into something more user friendly like a pseudo stock market set up.

What do you expect? They are in the business of making money!

I stop betting pregame now...wait live and catch a better line

@Gtr7783

ive been doing the same… only way to beat them now..

@Vegas502

This is the only way that you can beat them. Another effective method might be actually getting to know the players, and making a smart bet based on their form and the odds. Good luck with your evolution!

Perfect example today. Leyla Fernandez -4.5 @ -140 at most books. It shifted to -3.5 @ 100. I got caught with the bad line…. Luckily I parlayed the game and didn’t lose anything significant . Had I be watching the game and not be at work, the Lives are the only way to get them