I just saw someone bet a little over 50k on the Lakers 2nd Half...

[Capt. Slap]

Now, I'm not trying to lead anybody into betting the Lakers 2nd Half...cause who knows, this dude could be some degenerate...but...


I did see someone put up a 38,000 on Matchbook on the Clippers +8 2nd Half (so someone could get Lakers for up to 38,000) and within 5 seconds someone had taken it with 12,000 now left over on the Clippers +8 (which I saw get matched pretty quickly too)


Vanzack or Joe, is this common on MB?

 

[Capt. Slap]

Well I guess it's evened out now cause theres 41,000 you can bet on the Lakers...maybe he was trying to make some quick $ through double betting...I like it

50k on +103 Lakers

50k on +106 Clippers

Thats some serious profit

 

[albyman32]

man you have to have a serious roll to have 100k to put up to win 9k

 

[albyman32]

Plus how can they know that they'll be able to get +money on both sides when they put 50k on one side initially. Its like a 50k gamble that you can get +money on the other side later on.

 

[EHS49]

great point.

 

[Capt. Slap]

Ya Alby I could be totally wrong

I just thought it was a little weird when 50,000 went up on both sides...although I guess it's not un-normal for a Prime-Time-TV type bet you know?

I'm sure theres PLENTY of people with 100k in their Matchbook accounts though....

Which reminds me that EVERYONE should be on Matchbook for the NBA Playoffs, if you aren't there already use this as a reason to sign up...if you're betting more than 50-100 a game then the vig will definitely help

Plus, they have constant live betting in most playoff games and you can do things like I did last year...

Take Golden State +5 @ -103 against Dallas before tip-off....


Golden State gets out to a 40-25 lead at the end of the 1st Quarter and you'll start seeing lines like,

Dallas -5 @ +450

So you put $1000 on Dallas to win $4500, hope they make a little comeback and you can most likely get Golden State +5 at -300 or so...Matchbook will let you bet these type of things even if you don't have the funds in your account (which is sick...so for instance they'd let you put 3000 on Golden State +5 to win 1000 because they know you can't lose)

Now you're either up 1500 or at 0 with your original Golden State +5 ticket pending


And this is just a shoddy, 10pm written example...there were PLENTY of times last year when I got +500 on each side, one time I even had +1300 for one team and +1100 for the other, so there was absolutely no way I could lose


Now if only I was betting then what I bet now

 

[Joe Public]

It strikes me as uncommon, but mostly because it's a second half play.

On an NFL full game or even an NBA full game I've seen it. And maybe whomever it was was trying to move the money trying to lock in a profit.

You know one thing I've seen, and I'm sure Red and Van--ah, remember when Van used to post here--have seen as well is people fishing. Putting out big amounts with prices that may not actually be an accurate reflection of anything but rather them basically saying, "hey, will someone pay . . . ?"

Then someone steps up and does it and they've at the very least locked in a great price on one side. Then, if they don't like the bet one way or the other, you can see it start to come back the other way as they buy back.

But on the second half of a Laker game, that is a little interesting.

 

[Capt. Slap]

Plus how can they know that they'll be able to get +money on both sides when they put 50k on one side initially. Its like a 50k gamble that you can get +money on the other side later on.

I just thought about this for a few minutes and...

You could most likely buy Lakers for 50k at +106...as soon as it opens...even if you don't get + money on the Clippers you've still got up to -106...so you can pretty much sell at any point as long as there's others out there puttin up the $

 

[Capt. Slap]

I also have just imagined that if you CAN get your bankroll up to 100k you could pretty much just do this all the time at Matchbook...if you choose to devote tons of time to it

I figure you could probably double up in a few months without taking much (if any) risk at all...

 

[Joe Public]

The overraction at MB is awesome at times, Pinny was like this too occasionally, but tonight I got the Nuggets +4.5 at +150 and they were only down by like six or eight at the time. It ended up going to over +250 I think when they were down 16 in the first quarter.

But it does come with some risk. Last season, with the Rockets actually, I got involved in two games that I had no interest in even being in, but dove in because of the price--and the Rockets were such a bunch of f**king sucks that they never could get the score somewhere where I could bail out and I ended up losing like three or four units on a game I didn't even want to bet.

However, if you can get a game with wide swings in score and lots of lead changes, you can guarantee yourself little hits and it is nice. But there is a risk involved.

 

[pigeon]

that's just someone taking action both sides. those amounts are usually always available for 2h betting

 

[redbearde]

pigeon's right.

I've wondered if it was other sportsbooks making sure they balance their action.

But it's not at all uncommon to see higher 5 figures in 2H games.

............especially nationally televised games. I've seen other games no one gives a shit about where there's just a couple thousand in liquidity.

but this really isn't that surprising of a move.

 

[Slug]

i wish i knew how to use matchbook. i gotta learn soon

 

[Capt. Slap]

^ If you need any help just make a post in the Sportsbook Forum, I know there's plenty of members here willing to help you out (and I will too if you make a post...although guys like Joe Pub and Red have probably been there longer)

 

[cashflowmatters]

Just curious, where do they take 50k on nba games?

 

[Capt. Slap]

^ You can pretty much bet any amount on Matchbook...since it's basically you betting against someone else out there in the "cyber-world"

I wish I had thought of Matchbook's idea first...they get what, 1% on every bet placed? Impossible to lose