Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
But here's the thing we can't know how you did because we haven't any clue what lines you got.
There were about 2-3 games where 1/2 point turned a push into a win.

I didn't have time to shop, I had to take what I could get at the last minute. Non line shopping cost me probably about 6k.
Reading what you have posted at WoV, and now here, it sounds to me like you and I were pretty much doing the same thing with this Half smoke play.

I am not a "professional sports bettor", as the title of this thread indicates. But for the last year since last September sports betting and in particular the bonus chasing or bonus whoring at online casinos has accounted for about 1/3 of my AP income. I really don't know how long that will continue.

But this Half Smoke play is something different than the bonus whoring. And I wanted to get down more money on these first two weeks, of what I believe is a significant +EV play than I could get down (or felt comfortable getting down) at the handful of online books that I use. So living in Vegas I hit some B & M casinos and sportsbooks to place additional money on these first two weeks games.

Now not being a professional sports bettor, I didn't really line shop. I went out on Thurdsay, hit several casinos and books and bet the underdogs + points. Then Friday Evening I bet the underdogs at several of my online books that offer half juice on Friday evenings. Then Sunday Morning, I wagered at the remaining online books. So I made wagers on the same games, Thursday, Friday, Sunday at diferent sports books. And this meant in some cases I got lines that were 1/2, 1 point, in one case a point and a half different on the same games. At least one game each week, including the Sunday night game last night, that mattered. It resulted in some wagers being a push and some a win, last night. Last week, it resulted in some wagers being a push and some a loss on the same game.

It was more about just when I wagered than line shopping. If I was really going to do this full time, as my full time income, I would have to put more time in line shopping. Maybe check something like Vegas insider for what lines are at which casinos and then hit the best lines for each game for what I am betting. Had I done that, I probably could have turned a loss on some bets of one game last week into a push and a push on some bets last night into a win. That probably would have bumped me up a couple thousand or more. But jeez, I have a life too AND am doing other things right now. Been playing a lot of blackjack again after taking most of the summer off.