Books must have taken a MAJOR hit with UWM

cincy_ · Mar 8, 2005

UWM was down by 6 at HT, the HT line was UWM-6, and UWM simply needed to win. They covered. Whoopie right?

but ...

the line went to -140, -150 and -132 in three of the books that I was following.

What I don't get is how these books set HT lines based on a chart that they have. Does anyone have the balls to change the line by a point or two when there is such one sided action? All they keep doing is raising the vig because they think there is only a 10-12 minute window in which the action will come in and they're afraid to get sided/middled.

nimue77 · Mar 9, 2005

Yeah, at half saw +6 +121 at pinnacle and saw +8 -105 at one place, +7 +100 at another, oly had +6 + big, II had 6.5, so did at least 1 other. So, not everyone kept the line at 6.

SHACK · Mar 9, 2005

I saw the line at 6 -140 at Pinnacle and Olympic and a 7.5 at others. They started it at 6 - 140. These books know how to book, I'd bet they had equal action on the halftime and most made money.