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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-18-06 02:16 AM
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14. All of those odds are obscenely low
The Mirage is run by a wimp oddsmaker who is notorious for being afraid to take a bet or give fair odds on future wagers. He's the same guy who is so scared of basketball totals moving that he puts juice on them instead. For example, if an NBA total is 198 and the money comes in on the over, he moves to it 198 over -140, or whatever, instead of moving the number to 199 or 200 or similar. That makes him the laughingstock of every wise guy in town.

The major offshore sportsbooks will have much higher numbers on all of those teams. In Las Vegas, the Hilton or the Golden Nugget are good places to check for future odds with much less "take."
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  - All of those odds are obscenely low  Awsi Dooger   Feb-18-06 02:16 AM   #14 
 

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