2008 October at Linesmaker

Hockey Odds

Bet­ting on NHL Hockey Odds Grows World­wide. There are presently thirty teams in the National Hockey League. The NHL is com­posed of two con­fer­ences, the East and the West. Each con­fer­ence is sub­di­vided into three divi­sions each with five teams included in the divi­sion. If there is a les­son to be learned from the 2006–2007 cam­paign, it is that just about any team can climb the moun­tain to the top. Par­ity rep­re­sents the essence of the league at the present time, which brings a smile to the face of NHL Com­mis­sioner Gary Beck­man. What puts a frown on his face,... 

Spreads on NBA Games

Spreads on NBA Games – Make an Informed Wager The National Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion has been around since 1947. The NBA had its roots in some smaller cities before it estab­lished itself in the larger mar­kets. The early NBA had fran­chises in places such as Rochester and Syra­cuse, New York and Fort Wayne, Indi­ana. In the late 1950’s, the Rochester fran­chise moved to Cincin­nati and became the Cincin­nati Roy­als, who quickly signed All-American guard Oscar Robert­son to give the fran­chise instant cred­i­bil­ity. It worked to per­fec­tion. Cincy com­peted with the... 

NFL Playoff Betting

NFL Play­off Bet­ting : Play­off Lines NFL Foot­ball Play­off bet­ting is huge each year and this year is no excep­tion. It looks to be a very wide-open play­offs bet­ting sea­son. The Ten­nessee Titans keep on win­ning but the seri­ous sports bet­tors are yet to unload on them in NFL futures betting. Week 16 of NFL bet­ting should tell a story with the Ten­nessee Titans (12–2) up against the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers (11–3). The Titans head into this clash hav­ing already clinched the AFC South title and have a one game lead over their oppo­nents the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers... 

College Football Spreads

Col­lege Foot­ball Spreads: A Tutorial Col­lege foot­ball spreads can be dif­fi­cult to under­stand if you don’t know how to use them or what they mean. Read on to learn more about spreads, what they are and what they mean. It’s hard to judge col­lege foot­ball spreads when you’re not sure what a spread is. In most cases, one of the two teams in the spread is at least slightly bet­ter than the other. Rather than offer­ing odds, like 3:1, which would pay­out three times what you bet if you win, a point-spread sys­tem was devel­oped in Las Vegas. This sys­tem allows the gam­bler... 

Sports Gambling Information

Sports Gam­bling Infor­ma­tion From The Pros One of the most pop­u­lar adult recre­ational activ­i­ties through­out the world today is bet­ting on sports events. Bet­ting has increased seven fold over the past two decades. One of the rea­sons for this dra­matic increase in the pop­u­lar­ity of sports gam­bling is the leg­is­la­tion recently enacted which has per­mit­ted the estab­lish­ment of casi­nos in and around our coun­try as well as in off­shore waters. Addi­tion­ally, the devel­op­ment of the Inter­net and its increased tech­no­log­i­cal advances over... 

NFL Football Wager

NFL Foot­ball Wager Con­sider the Home Underdog One of the most attrac­tive aspects of the NFL is the inter­est it stirs up in the final scores of the games. The NFL foot­ball wager is one of the most pop­u­lar adult recre­ational activ­i­ties world wide. The NFL foot­ball wager lines are used all over the world for bet­ting pur­poses. These lines are pro­duced each week of the foot­ball sea­son. To quench the gam­bling urges of the most seri­ous bet­tors, there are even some lines for the exhi­bi­tion games. When the NFL expanded its reg­u­lar sea­son sched­ule a few... 

Procedure of Basketball Betting

Learn the Pro­ce­dure of Bas­ket­ball Bet­ting Many orga­ni­za­tions, such as Col­lege Bas­ket­ball, Col­lege Foot­ball or NFL all make use of a point spread that is num­bered for the games in bas­ket­ball. Wagers should be placed in three core ways such as, on the money line, on the over or under of the total, and against the bas­ket­ball point spread. The point spread bet­ting pro­ce­dure will be dis­cussed here. To make it easy to under­stand the pro­ce­dure of bas­ket­ball bet­ting, an imag­i­nary bas­ket­ball point spread is given below. Sup­pose the Los Ange­les... 

NFL Football Sportsbook

NFL Foot­ball Sports­book: How To Place A Bet Many peo­ple who place friendly wagers now and again with local book­ies, or friends and fam­ily, do not under­stand exactly what a NFL foot­ball sports­book is. In fact, when they decide it is time to place a wager with a NFL foot­ball sports­book they are unclear on how to do so. The first step to plac­ing a wager with a NFL foot­ball sports­book is to under­stand exactly what it is and what they have to offer. Any NFL foot­ball sports­book offers many things that your local bookie or friends and fam­ily can­not. A NFL foot­ball... 

World Series Wagering

World Series Wager­ing Get the Bet­ting Edge Wager­ing on the World Series has become a tra­di­tion for many peo­ple. World Series wager­ing spreads are stud­ied all over the world and many peo­ple start to ana­lyze all of the infor­ma­tion they can ahead of time to get a good grasp on where to place their money. Although most peo­ple assume that the World Series wager­ing spreads are only ana­lyzed in the United States it is also pop­u­lar all around the world. Peo­ple from other coun­tries love base­ball and also like to gam­ble, so study­ing World Series spreads is very... 

NCAA Basketball Point Spreads

NCAA Bas­ket­ball Spreads – The True Test of Bet­ting Pros The NCAA bas­ket­ball sea­son extends from mid– Novem­ber through the Cham­pi­onship game which is gen­er­ally played on the evening of the first Mon­day in April. Each of the 256 teams in Divi­sion I NCAA com­pe­ti­tion plays a full sched­ule of approx­i­mately 28 games. The math works out to about 3600 games of bas­ket­ball on the NCAA docket each year. For the sports bet­ting investor, that means ample oppor­tu­nity to learn the trends and ten­den­cies of the col­lege teams and their respec­tive leagues...