the betting thread

[ice grillin you]

some day you'll listen to me. all I do is win $


i won huge sat

had large money on the saints money line

had colts money line which paid big

won seattle and the ridiculous pts they were getting

lost san diego

[reese125]

some day you'll listen to me. all I do is win $

It's easy when you don't pay up on your bets.  Like the $10 you owe me for finishing with fewer points in the CFFFL AFC.

easy killer, I told you I would  pay u the measley 10 beans. I asked for your address and you said pay with PayPal or something like that. no clue how to do that. let me know and its yours

[ice grillin you]

superbowl line out...

AFC -6
49.5 total

[Rome]

How could a line be out when the teams haven't even been determined yet?

[phattymatty]

because the nfc eats balls. 

regardless of what the game is (NO-NE, NO-IND, CHI-NE, CHI-IND), that spread isn't going to change a whole lot.

[phattymatty]

so i'm out in the LA area for work for a while.  went to the los alamitos race track last night and i swear to god out of maybe 10-11 bets, my horse came in absolute last at least five times.  like not even close.  i really need to quit gambling.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

What was your strategy for picking horses?

[rjs246]

I'm guessing long odds/big payout.

[phattymatty]

pretty colors.

i came within half an inch of hitting an exacta, photo for second and i lost.  same thing happened to me the next race except it wasn't quite as close, maybe a few feet.

[phattymatty]

it's kind of my own personal tradition that i started about 5 years ago but i always thrown down a bet on the coin toss at the super bowl.  i think i may switch it up this year.

So here's something we hadn't realized: Billy Joel is singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Though we are impressed that the NFL remains current and cutting edge with their selection of everyone's favorite rapidly decaying crooner, we are also curious about just how long it's gonna take him to sing it. Paul Zimmerman historically times national anthems -- he says the longest he ever timed was 2 1/2 minutes -- and CNBC's Darren Rovell is curious as well.

Bodog.com has the over/under at 1:44. Before I started to even get into this, I called up the guys at Bodog to make sure I understood the bet right. They told me that it's not when the accompaniment starts. It's when Billy says the word "Oh." So I woke up this morning and sang the national anthem a couple times to see how long it would take. My regular version took 1:14. My slow version took 1:22 and my extra slow version took 1:32.

    I assume a smart bettor would go through the same drill and think, how is it possibly going to get up to 1:44? Well, a smarter bettor would go to YouTube, which I did. There's only one Billy Joel version of the National Anthem. His rendition from the 2000 World Series all timed out - it's 1 minute and 37 seconds.

We'd probably still take the bet; Rovell says no one has ever gone over 1:44 (though Dr. Z, timing Beyonce from a couple of Super Bowls ago at 2:07). We just can't believe we're gonna have to look at Billy Joel for almost two minutes.

[ice grillin you]

so whos betting today...im going with a quarter on each bold team...

Maryland -7 vs Davidson
Texas Tech vs. BC -2.5
Stanford vs. Louisville -6
Oral Roberts  vs. Washington State -6.5
Butler -2 vs Old Dominion
Belmont vs. Gtown -17
Penn vs. Texas A M -13.5
GW vs. Vanderbilt -3.5
Duke -6.5 vs. VCU
Ohio State -21.5 vs. C.Conn St.
UCLA -20 vs. Weber St
Michigan State -2 vs. Marquette
Pitt -9.5 vs Wright St.
NC -27.5 vs. Eastern Kentucky
Xavier -2 vs. BYU
Indiana -1.5 vs Gonzaga

[phattymatty]

those are some tough picks, the only one i really like out of those is byu.

[phattymatty]

i came within half an inch of hitting an exacta, photo for second and i lost.  same thing happened to me the next race except it wasn't quite as close, maybe a few feet.

this reminded me that last week when i was in vegas i hit exactas about 5 times.  and a trifecta once.  all $2 bets and they all paid about anywhere from $30-$110.

[ice grillin you]

md = lock

come on butler

[phattymatty]

md = lock

no way you were saying that for the first hour.