Strategies against Canadian provincial lotteries

Snake46 · Sep 25, 2007

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any canadians out there that have come up with a strategy to beat canadian sports lotteries by using the online sportsbooks to "protect" your bets in order to make a profit consistently ?

In Quebec (and correct me if I'm wrong, it's the same in all provinces), if we take Hockey as an example, the lines come out at the beginning of the week, and stay the same all week long. For hockey, there are two types of bets : win-lose-tie and totals. For each, you have to pick 3, 4, 5 or 6 games, and to win, all your selections must be right.

For Totals, the payout is the following :

3 selections : you win 5 times your bet
4 selections : you win 8 times your bet
5 selections : you win 15 times your bet
6 selections : you win 25 times your bet

Any ideas ?

MattRain · Sep 25, 2007

The hold is atrocious on these, between 15 and 20% if I recall correctly. I doubt that there would be many line changes that are big enough to make it worth your while.

MIKEY.1TIME · Sep 25, 2007

just legal parlays with horrible horrible odds

quantumleap · Sep 25, 2007

Kind of reminds me of the SIA live betting last night. The line for the end of the game result was Tennessee -2.5/New Orleans -2.5. That's right, -2.5/-2.5. Not -2.5/+2.5.

HinesWard86 · Sep 25, 2007

quantumleap said:
Kind of reminds me of the SIA live betting last night. The line for the end of the game result was Tennessee -2.5/New Orleans -2.5. That's right, -2.5/-2.5. Not -2.5/+2.5.

Yep, thats SIA....there live betting is ridiculous, always a 5 pt differential. A year or two though ago though live betting was beatable when they stupidly allowed you to tease that. For a couple weeks me and a friend were teasing the total and the spread together late into the 4th quarter. I miss those days.