Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Tuesday, January 20th

71 comments:

GarrettKall said...

Just wakin' up in the morning got to thank god, I don't know but today I kinda like these odds

Evan said...

Ive been watchin Obama the whole day.. Now im gonna look at the lines and spreads.

GarrettKall said...

yeah today is a historical day. Not everyday Indy travels to San Antonio, only once a year last time I checked

GarrettKall said...

didn't realize the first game was at 8:30...I'm gonna grab something eat real quick since we got an extra hour before the first tipoff

Evan said...

Atlanta +4.5 against Chicago

Pacers +7.5 against San Antonio

Timberwolves +8.5 against Utah

Nuggets -9 against Kings


That is screaming to be teased down 4 points....

Which would make it
Atlanta +.5
Pacers +11.5
Wolves +12.5
Nuggets -5

That is a for sure bet for me..

Nuggets at home will beat Sactown by 5 for sure

Wolves should be able to stay within 13 points of Utah the way their playing, and since Utah is so depleted

Pacers love to compete with higher echelon teams. All they need to is stay within 12 points in San Antonio

This is probably the least certain bet but I still feel confident. All Atlanta has to do is win at Chicago. They won yesterday hopefully that will bring momentum. Chicago just lost to New York, so they are slumping..

What u think homie?

Evan said...

My bad I screwed up with ATL. They could lose by 8 points and we still win!!!! I said all they had to do was win, I teased it in the opposite direction lol. This is a FOR SURE TEASER BET. Im so fuckin excited I really like this.

GarrettKall said...

i haven't read the papers yet or checked the injuries, but I was thinking just by looking at it, a 3 team 7 point teaser teasing down SA, Den, and Utah

Evan said...
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Evan said...

Atlanta +8.5
Pacers +11.5
Wolves +12.5
Nuggets -5

Just teased it 4 points. I feel really good!!! Put down 50 bucks to get 150

GarrettKall said...

50? Damn, your brave, that's alot of faith to have in 3 road teams, two inferior ones

Evan said...

Thats also a good bet. U dont like teasing up Atlanta tho? Theres no way they lose by 9 points at Chicago after Chicago just lost to NY

Evan said...

Yea i am alil brave. But Indy plays great against good competition the entire yr, and Wolves are playing with more confidence than theyve had in years.

Evan said...

Ur 3 teaser by 7 points is pretty much the same as my 4 team teaser, except it allows Denver to win by 1 and my teaser has to have Denver win by 5 or more, and ur excluding Atlanta..thats the only differences

GarrettKall said...

I don't know...Marvin Williams is out, Horford's questionable. Chicago's really good at home and Atlanta's really bad on the road. With Chicago being fully healthy, if it was a pickup game, no refs, I'd say Chicago has the much better team when you consider they are fully healthy and Atlanta might be missing 2 starters

GarrettKall said...

Chicago's beat Atlanta at home by 8or more 5 of the last 6 times

Evan said...

hmmm..ok ill do another parlay without Atlanta then, just those other teams u mentioned...


Let me ask u this tho

What is the most for sure bet? Whats gonna be out single money bet?

GarrettKall said...

well.....Maybe its that I'm being a little bit of a pussy, or maybe its because I won more money yesterday than i expected to win. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a straight up bet. There's basically no one game that I like above all. I like Utah, SA, and Denver equally as much. I'm thinking about just doing that 7 point teaser, and then maybe doing 1 or two college parlays, or some kind of unique bet like 5 to win more than $50 in some kind of combination.

I guess its just that things have started well, I like having breathing room, and the fact that there's only 4 games on the schedule, I feel like I don't want to push the envelope when there's still half a season to go. Like call me sick but I get scared when there's such few games, because across the country there's more focus on each game, less games to bet, I always worry about the fix being on since most people will be taking the favorites, SA, Utah, and Den. Also Denver is scaring me a little, not playing great bball at the moment. There's some uncertainity there, questions about whether JR smith should start or Kleiza, just a litte wall that team seems to have hit

GarrettKall said...

I'm probably just being overcatious though, its just I've got burnt so many times in the past, now that I'm up I want to do it right, learn a little more about the teams as a go, since I just really started reading the papers 3 days ago. I want to get more familiar with the expectations of the fans from each team, now they're being perceived in each city. And also the fact that the trade deadline's coming up, one bad loss can snowball and force teams to make deals, I'll feel more certain when the deadline passes. Right now you have alot of guys walking on eggshells worrying about getting dealt

GarrettKall said...

Man just reading the Chicago tabloids, that fanbase is infuriated beyond belief about the state of their franchise

GarrettKall said...

Also don't forget, a Chicago home game in sports on the same night of the inauguration, should be an extra electic crowd

GarrettKall said...

also both Atlanta backup point guards got hurt yesterday, Law and Mario West. They are basically stuck with like 8-9 healthy players

Evan said...

Stop being a vag

Evan said...

J/K

Evan said...

Im gonna do ur 3 team 7 pt parlay also, in case denver just squeezes a win or atlants gets pulverized

GarrettKall said...

I got Denver -2, Utah -1.5, SA -.5

Evan said...

Yea I got that too...

I did soooooo many bets. Here they are bro. I went overboard. If it comes thru it will be the biggest payday ever 4 me.


3 team teaser
Hawks +8.5
Pacers +11.5
Wolves +12.5

3 team parlay
Hawks +4.5
Pacers +7.5
Wolves +8.5

3 team teaser
Spurs +.5
Jazz -.5
Nuggets -1

4 team teaser
Hawks +8.5
Pacers +11.5
Wolves +12.5
Nuggets -5

GarrettKall said...

hey I don't have a 2nd chance, if I blow my account my betting days will be done for a minute. I had to file bankruptcy because of my medical disasters just last week. So right now just being able to bet brings a joy that I don't want to ruin, I'd rather play it safe, more safe than I usually would. I used to just do a few lines of coke and then put $1000 on the Lakers before I could even exhale

Anonymous said...

that blog SUCKS

dammit

what is going on with ira's dumba##, anyone realized they could come hre instead yet?

Anonymous said...

where you place bets at?

Anonymous said...

how do i put 20 bucks on Indy to beat the spread?

Evan said...

I use bodoglife.com, yea I used to fuck with that snowhite, still do here n there..Never put 1000 dollars on a bet tho. And the same goes for me, if I lose all my money in my account im not putting anymore in. If all my bets hit tonight ill make 295$.

GarrettKall said...

i use mysportsbook.com, their always real good about sending the money immediately

GarrettKall said...

so would you say you have a snowwhite hookup?

Evan said...

Yea I wud use Garrets. Mine takes alot of time to withdrawal ur earnings

Evan said...

I can get the pure with ease, about a 3 min drive

GarrettKall said...

That's cool man...Every 2 years or so I like to do some skiing for a couple weeks. It's been a looooong time, I'm well overdue, especially since I stopped smoking weed.

Evan said...

When im with chicks in a party type situation i enjoy riding down a few long ski slopes

GarrettKall said...

lol...yes, I too enjoy slaloming with chicks at parties

Evan said...

I MISS LEAGUE PASS!

GarrettKall said...

and there it is, Sacramento jumping out to the 8 point lead after one. Knew I had a funny feeling about that one

GarrettKall said...

i also took a college parlay, south florida, tennessee, air force

Evan said...

I wish I knew enough about college basketball...Im hopin Denver comes back, they got to

GarrettKall said...

oh hell yeah, nuggets came back on that azz

Evan said...

FUCK MAN! IM WORRIED ABOUT INDY AND THE WOLVES

GarrettKall said...

honestly man, i know nothing about college basketball, but I've had some success betting it by just looking at team's schedules, seeing if they're hot/cold, good or bad at home or on the road. At times i find it easier because you get so many games where its superior competition vs. horrendous schools.

Evan said...

Indy is gonna kill me!!!!!!!!

GarrettKall said...

the trend on sac/den was the road team was 8-0 vs the spread the last 8 times which is what scared me, but then I thought, this is a different denver team than all those, with Billups now instead of AI

Evan said...

Indy is my downfall. Im gonna lose big money. All my others were good, Atlanta looks like its gonna beat the spread. Im so pissed

GarrettKall said...

that's why generally i'll never bet on underdogs unless its in a 5$ parlay. Cause if I lose big money I always know beforehand that I bet on a worse team, so I shouldn't be surprised if the superior team wins. I always make my big bets on teams that are supposed to win, that way if I lose, something will have happened that shouldn't have happened.

Not to try and sound like I know anything, that's just always my mentality betting. I'll only bet big on an underdog if there's some set of cirumstances that I feel are being overlooked by the bookies. Like the first time Vince Carter played against Toronto after he left, they were a 9 point underdog at New Jersey. That's a case where I felt Vegas is just totally overlooking the emotional aspects of the game, that every player on Toronto was pissed at him for dogging and throwing them under the bus when he left. I took the moneyline, Toronto won by like 20. Those are the only kind of scenarios where I like underdogs, ones where there are clear cases of players on the underdog team having extra motivation.

Or, if there's some sort of key injury, and they only adjust the spread a point or two. Like yesterday, they had New Orleans as 7 point favorites but West was out. Vegas slipped

Evan said...

I know what ur saying, but this is Indys worse game of the season by far. They all played like dogshit.

Evan said...

And Ginobli had the best game of his season

GarrettKall said...

yeah but does that really surprise you? Indy IMO is the 8th best team in the East talentwise but dead last in terms of gameplan. They are a joke, a big joke, if the front office had any insight they would fire their coach immediately. When has that run-n-gun shyt ever amounted to anything. At best it will get your team bounced out in the playoffs by a more physical team, every single time. So why the fuck do it???

That team is the worst defensive team I've ever watched, EVER!! At least traditional west coast teams will get alot of steals and fast break points. Indiana is pathetic, they give teams wide open after wide open layups in the paint uncontested. I couldn't believe how bad it really is after watching them yesterday against New Orleans and then the first quarter of today's game. It's just deplorable and there is no excuse for it. With all that talent they have, if they just pretended to try and play any kind of defense they'd probably be in the playoffs right now.

And I still think eventually they're going to be in the hunt, because they've played the least amount of home games in the league plus Dunleavy missed all those games, who was their best player last year, and Ford and Daniels too have been out. But why they try to play the way they do, it's just mind boggling when casual fans know its a recipe for disaster, yet Larry Bird has no problem with it.

GarrettKall said...

Them against San Antonio is like the best coached team in the league vs the worst coached team

GarrettKall said...

Minnesota's battling Utah hard, that team has a bright future. Love what they're doing up there

GarrettKall said...

People make fun of Kevin McHale and rightfully so, he's made some mistakes. But getting Al Jefferson for Garnett, having the insight to do that, that might have been the best possible player in the league they could have gotten in that spot. And trading Roy for Foye isn't looking as bad anymore. Sure it's bad, but Foye's a little baller, his injury really started out his career slow, but he's finally hit his stride. At least you can see what he was thinking now that you see the talent there.

Plus Love is better than I thought, Telfair's actually transformed into a serviceable point guard, Miller hasn't even really played well yet, and Gomes and Smith are as tough as they come. Plus they still have Carney and McCants who are both still young. Lots of young talent on that team.

Evan said...

Fuckkkkkk I lost 50 bucks, I won the parlay that u put out. Minnesota is starting to come around. And I love Love's intensity

GarrettKall said...

well its not over yet, Utah still has to win

GarrettKall said...

I already started looking at tomorrows games, there's 11 total

GarrettKall said...

can you imagine how much better the Hornets would be if Byron Scott didn't run JR Smith out of town? Just put him in at the 2 insead of Rasual Butler. With him and Peja hitting wide open three's, they'd be unstoppable

Evan said...

Yea agree 1000% about jr Smith

GarrettKall said...

i remember i had league pass when smith was on the hornets, dude was sick. That's when dickau started at pg and was actually good. Don't know what the hell happened to him

Evan said...

I dont know why I didnt do a single money bet, im an idiot

GarrettKall said...

YES, Utah squeaked it out, thank god we teased it instead of parlaying it, the three points wouldn't have been enough.

GarrettKall said...

that's another element, picking the correct style of bet. Like tonight's scoreboard i immediately felt 7 point tease was the way to go. I guess doing Atlanta money line would have been the proper bet

Evan said...

Yea thank god bro..Im gonna head off to the gym and ill be back in an hr and a half to start looking at the lines for tomorrow. Good job tonight

GarrettKall said...

hey thanks...i'll be around for a few hours

Evan said...

Alright im gonna look at the odds now

Evan said...

The Cleveland game stands out for me right away. You gotta think Cleveland will be able to beat Portland by 2 or more after being embarassed in L.A.

Houston (home) -2.5 against Utah.. Utah isn't good at home

Hornet (home) -6 against Nets

Suns (away) -5 against Knicks.. Phoenix is a better version of NY, and playing against D'antoni

These r the games im looking at right now. I feel very confident about Cleveland -1.5 at Portland.

Evan said...

I meant Utah isnt good away*

GarrettKall said...

new blog

Evan said...

I told u houston would win