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Originally Posted by
Daly
I'm surprised everyone in here is taking a X book vs Y book approach.
A real sharp would take a book with .40 lines, any out is a good out so long as it pays. Do homework, get to a lean, shop for the best number, bet it and Cash. Don't worry about how much the book is making and from whom, so long as they aren't doing crazy promotions that can't win (indicative of a scam).
I have outs a sharp books where I generally bet overs and favorites, I have outs at square books where I tend to bet dogs and unders.
Can you explain what you mean here?
I fully understand the value of having both a sharp book and a square book. That 100% makes sense.
But how could you ever justify 40c lines on baseball (aside from massive +EV prop bets)?
I can't imagine there is a single baseball handicapper in the world who could show a profit on a book with 40c lines, unless that book was routinely "off" with its lines by a wide margin (which is uncommon these days).
Last year, I occasionally found a better price on Bovada with its 20c lines than on my other book with 10c lines, simply because Bovada was a square book. But that was rare, to the point where having Bovada as a secondary book for baseball side bets was fairly useless. (The NBA was a different story...)
