What what would you guys do with a 100% bonus up to $1000?

Kruser6 · Sep 6, 2006

Say I did this and started my account with $2,000. Is there anyway mathmatically other then to try and buy early at the book for $2,000 and hope to have the line move with you and sell the points at Pinny. Then just hope you win your bet at pinny instead of the other book?

How would you guys approach this?

I also have a $250 Freeplay at Sky if that could be used.

Doug · Sep 6, 2006

I'd be leery of a book offering it, in the first place. If the book was OK, I'd bet the whole $2000 ( I assume cash bonus) on a side I thought would lose at the bonus book, then bet the other side at Mansion, so if right I pick up maybe $800 and have no rollover to deal with.

trytrytry · Sep 6, 2006

when I read this thread I thought to myself, well Im not sure ,but I bet Doug is all over this one one one....

Kruser6 · Sep 6, 2006

See thats what I am worried about. . I am not sure I want to be sitting with $4000 at this book.

Wynn · Sep 6, 2006

There's a good post about this here, although I'm not sure I agree with all of the recommendations:

http://forum.therx.com/showthread.php?t=323590

Kruser6 · Sep 6, 2006

I thought about maybe splitting it up over $500 bets rather then one solid $2000 bet at the other book. Then maybe you could try to beat the linemoves and always take the side you actually like to win at Pinny and then worse comes to worse you rollover the bonus (Which is 10x the B+D)

cincy_ · Sep 6, 2006

It takes a lot of patience. If you're willing to let it take 3-4 weeks, it is VERY managable. If you want to do it PRONTO, you end up losing major vig.

Kruser6 · Sep 6, 2006

kwalder said:
There's a good post about this here, although I'm not sure I agree with all of the recommendations:

http://forum.therx.com/showthread.php?t=323590

Thats a matchplay though. I am talking about an actual cash bonus.

Doug · Sep 6, 2006

cincy_ said:
It takes a lot of patience. If you're willing to let it take 3-4 weeks, it is VERY managable. If you want to do it PRONTO, you end up losing major vig.

Huh ? I assume any book offering it has full juice. If you get out in one shot, you save tons of vig.

cincy_ · Sep 6, 2006

Doug said:
Huh ? I assume any book offering it has full juice. If you get out in one shot, you save tons of vig.

Of course you need to get it out.

What I mean is:

You can't try to look for a game TODAY. If you can't find a game today, let it go until tomorrow or even until next week. Don't pay 10 cents in juice today (which is easy during baseball season) because you will CERTAINLY find a +ve scalp within a few days.
Also, there are always scalps available in tennis and golf with LOW limits. If you start scalping tennis lines at $250/match, it might take longer but its worth the wait.

Doug · Sep 6, 2006

Kruser6 said:
Say I did this and started my account with $2,000. Is there anyway mathmatically other then to try and buy early at the book for $2,000 and hope to have the line move with you and sell the points at Pinny. Then just hope you win your bet at pinny instead of the other book?

How would you guys approach this?

I also have a $250 Freeplay at Sky if that could be used.

Save the freeplay for later.

Usually you bet the dog at the bonus book, but this time lets say you like the dog.

Bonus book has fav -120
Pinny has dog +111

Bet fav at BB 2000 to win 1666
Bet Dog at Pinny 1666 to win 1849

Hopefully dog wins you 1849 and your 2000 bet only cost 1000= +849

if you lose 1666 to Pinny, it's at the bonus book, now you pretty much are stuck rolling it because amounts are now likely too high.

Santo · Sep 6, 2006

If you don't trust the book with $4k, all this is moot of course..

Who is the book? Is it a Royal bailout?

Doug · Sep 6, 2006

cincy_ said:
Of course you need to get it out.

What I mean is:

You can't try to look for a game TODAY. If you can't find a game today, let it go until tomorrow or even until next week. Don't pay 10 cents in juice today (which is easy during baseball season) because you will CERTAINLY find a +ve scalp within a few days.

Also, there are always scalps available in tennis and golf with LOW limits. If you start scalping tennis lines at $250/match, it might take longer but its worth the wait.

That's good if you are patient enough, I want to do it within a few days, I'd take a worse line on one game, if I felt strongly I could get the loser side at the bonus shop.

TTinCO · Sep 6, 2006

It must be past WVU's bedtime. He'd have some ideas for ya:lolBIG:

sean1 · Sep 6, 2006

Are we really now giving bonus whoring lessons on the forum? I guess we are.

1st point - you can not bet out of a book you do not trust. Invaribly you risk getting more money there.

2nd point - what is the big hurry - just wait for a good opportunity if you are going to bet out.

If you choose to bet out, either find yourself a game (Preferably Nfl - I am not explaining why) where you get a half point based on the lines (Like 7.5 and 7 would be nice) or find a game on the 3 where this book and another one shade the three in opposite directions and buy the 2.5/3.5.

If you do this, you risk getting $4000 or even $8000 in the shit book.

There are a lot of books I will throw $1000 at for a free $500 or $1000, but no way I am going to land $8000 there...

My recommendation is this - just use the book normally. Look at their lines and find the good ones. Place reasonably bets (maybe $100 or $150) over the next week or two. In two weeks, you'll have somewhere between $1500 and $2500.

This does two things:

1. You enver risk getting a ton of money stuck at the shit book.
2. You don't look like a bonus whore and the shit book prob wont revoke your bonus...

-Sean

WVU · Sep 6, 2006

what book? that makes all the difference in the world

Doug · Sep 6, 2006

If it's a Royal bailout, I think you can consider it relatively safe. I'd still take one shot to exit early, if it fails, then you rolled 1X already, and play normally now. If you use a game near pick you'll be at around 4k, hitting a big dog like +300 is dangerous and requires a very large fav bet.