2011 February at LinesMaker

NBA Betting Favorite Miami Rallies Over Sacramento

The Miami Heat top­pled over the Sacra­mento Kings 117–97 on Tues­day, thanks to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who pulled in 31, 23 and 22 points, respectively. Attract­ing nearly 80% of the NBA bet­ting action, the Miami Heat were the clear favorites against Sacra­mento to win among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NBA lines at –13, Miami delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Kings. James pulled in 21 of his points in the first half of the game for Miami, which increased its home win­ning streak to six games. Play­ing over 35 min­utes despite an ankle... 

Montreal Wins Over NHL Betting Favorite Vancouver

The Mon­treal Cana­di­ens reg­is­tered a 3–2 vic­tory over the Van­cou­ver Canucks on Tues­day, cour­tesy of Carey Price who made 37 saves. With nearly 75% of the NHL bet­ting action on their side, the Van­cou­ver Canucks were the clear favorites against Mon­treal among Lines­Maker bet­tors. Hav­ing –199 NHL odds, Van­cou­ver dis­ap­pointed the major­ity of bet­tors after los­ing to the Cana­di­ens (+182). Price man­aged to turn aside double-digit shots on goal in the game and emerged out as win­ner from six Van­cou­ver power plays, includ­ing four in the sec­ond... 

Kansas Downs Oklahoma State in NCAA Basketball Betting

Mar­cus Mor­ris pulled in 27 points as the No. 2 Kansas Jay­hawks dom­i­nated the Okla­homa State Cow­boys, 92–65, on Monday. Draw­ing around 60% of the NCAA Bas­ket­ball Bet­ting action, the Kansas Jay­hawks were the clear favorites against Okla­homa State to win among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the col­lege bas­ket­ball lines at –17, Kansas lived up to the expec­ta­tions of the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Cowboys. Mor­ris com­pleted 9-of-13 from the field for the Jay­hawks (26–2, 11–2 Big 12), who were play­ing with­out sus­pended guard Tyshawn... 

NHL Betting: Washington Tops Pittsburgh

The Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals ral­lied over the Pitts­burgh Pen­guins 1–0 Mon­day, cour­tesy of Michal Neu­virth and Alex Ovechkin who reg­is­tered a 39-shot shutout and pulled in the lone goal, respectively. Attract­ing nearly 60% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals were the clear favorites against Pitts­burgh among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NHL lines at –130, Wash­ing­ton rejoiced the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Pen­guins (+120). Increas­ing his record to 18–9-4, Neu­virth reg­is­tered his third shutout of his career for... 

Online Odds Evolution of Sports Wagering Industry

Due to the arrival of the World Wide Web, online odds are deliv­ered directly into our homes via cyber sports­book gam­bling sites. This allows the bet­ting patron to expe­ri­ence all the excite­ment of online odds bet­ting in the com­fort of home. Bet­ting has been part of civ­i­liza­tion since man first roamed the earth. He had to roam the earth because he was ban­ished from Par­adise. The way the story unfolded, the first male dude ever cre­ated was lonely so the Cre­ator gave him a part­ner, a gal dude. Things were going along groovy. They spent a great deal of time rap­ping... 

NCAA Basketball Betting: Wisconsin Downs Penn State, Fails to Cover Spread

Keaton Nankivil scored on 5-for-5 from 3-point range to spark the No. 10 Wis­con­sin Bad­gers’ 76–66 win over the Penn State Nit­tany Lions on Sunday. Draw­ing nearly 60% of the NCAA bas­ket­ball bet­ting action, the Wis­con­sin Bad­gers were the clear favorites against Penn State among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the col­lege bas­ket­ball lines at –11.5, the Bad­gers failed to delight the major­ity of bet­tors despite win­ning over the Nit­tany Lions, as they did not cover the point spread. Nankivil scored 22 points while 8-of-9 shoot­ing over­all for Wis­con­sin... 

NHL Betting Favorite Chicago Topples Pittsburgh

The Chicago Black­hawks defeated the Pitts­burgh Pen­guins 3–2 on Sun­day, cour­tesy of Patrick Kane and Corey Craw­ford who scored the sole goal of shootout and made 24 saves, respectively. Attract­ing nearly 65% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Chicago Black­hawks were the clear favorites against Pitts­burgh among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With –209 NHL odds, Chicago delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by beat­ing the Pen­guins (+191). Craw­ford blanked Pittsburgh’s Pas­cal Dupuis and Kris Letang, even as Kane scored on a shot past Pen­guins’ Marc-Andre Fleury in the third... 

All-Star Weekend

Are you ready for a week­end fea­tur­ing the NBA, NCAA Bas­ket­ball and the Day­tona 500? Take a look of what’s going on in the fol­low­ing days… NBA All-Star Weekend From the Slam Dunk con­test to the fan favorite All-Star game, this week­end is going to be filled with excite­ment… Check out our NBA All-Star Week­end props and spice up your game! The Day­tona 500 This Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 20th at 13:00 ET, one of NASCAR’s most leg­endary com­pe­ti­tions will take place. Now is the time to check out LinesMaker’s NASCAR odds, and get in on the action with America’s... 

NCAA Basketball Betting: Arizona Beats Washington State

The No. 13 Ari­zona Wild­cats ral­lied over the Wash­ing­ton State Cougars, 79–70, on Thurs­day, thanks to Der­rick Williams who helped the Wild­cats to lead early in the sec­ond half. Attract­ing nearly 70% of the NCAA bas­ket­ball bet­ting action, the Ari­zona Wild­cats were the clear favorites against Wash­ing­ton State among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the col­lege bas­ket­ball lines at –8, Ari­zona rejoiced the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Cougars. Hav­ing an eight point lead at half­time, Ari­zona (22–4, 11–2 Pac-10) pre­vented Wash­ing­ton... 

Edmonton Downs NHL Betting Favorite Montreal

The Edmon­ton Oiler top­pled over the Mon­treal Cana­di­ens 4–1 Thurs­day, cour­tesy of Jor­dan Eberle who scored three goals in third with a go-ahead score. Attract­ing nearly 70% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Mon­treal Cana­di­ens were the clear favorites against Edmon­ton among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NHL lines at –130, Mon­treal failed to delight the major­ity of bet­tors as they lost to the Oil­ers (+120). Ales Hem­sky scored the first of his two goals in the open­ing period, but Mon­treal tied it in the sec­ond on a score from Jeff Halpern. Eberle scored...