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Before we dump this week's haul of picks on the table for inspection, let's check the Week 8 selections for accuracy and hidden razor blades: Week 8 picks. Best Bets: 2-0 (YTD: 7-7) Leans: 2-0 ...
The Chargers are the fifth-most popular selection this week, at 6.61%. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-8.5) at Pittsburgh Steelers If you parlayed the Bucs and Rams moneylines this week, you'd get a price ...
Use our staff's weekly pick'em against the spread and straight up for the win.
Here the bettor picks a horse and bets it will win, and makes an additional bet that it will show, so that theoretically if the horse runs third it will at least pay back the two bets. The Canadian and American equivalent is the bet across (short for across the board ): the bettor bets equal sums on the horse to win, place, and show.
A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races. Because of the great difficulty in picking six straight winners, plus the number of betting interests involved, payoffs for successful wagers are quite high, sometimes in the millions of dollars.
A betting pool, syndicate, sports lottery, sweep, or office pool if done at work, is a form of gambling, specifically a variant of parimutuel betting influenced by lotteries, where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool (from which taxes and a house "take" or "vig" are removed), and then make a selection on an outcome, usually related to sport.
@Jaguars (3-2, -4) over Colts (3-2), 23-20: Battle for AFC South lead is one of only two Week 6 games (Lions-Bucs) with two winning records in play. Jax is back home after an impressive two-game ...
Parlay bets are paid out at odds higher than the typical single game bet, but still below the "true" odds. For instance, a common two-team NFL parlay based entirely on the spread generally has a payout of 2.64:1. In reality, however, if one assumes that each single game bet is 50/50, the true payout should instead be 3:1.