Need advice, is it bad ettiquete to scalp at the same sportsbook?

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If you get a +4 -105on Team A on overnight line and the next day the line opens at +1 is it bad to take Team B - 1 -105 at the same book and try to middle? Is it allowed? do they frown on it? I've never done it but always wondered how it would be taken. Any thoughts would be appreciated.


Just noticed should be etiquette.
 

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It'll get ya booted out of a lot of them.....on 1st offense no less..
 

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i big book probably wouldn't even notice, but a small book or local might not like it too much.

In theory every time they hang a number they are trying to get 50% on either side of that number so it shoudnt bother them too much.
 

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A real book would have no problem with it ( assuming no bonus rollover involved). One has the implied right to make an early bet ( say NFL) then change their mind and desire to cancel it by betting the other side ( usually eating the vig) sometimes even via a Polish middle like +7.5/ -8.5. If it becomes +8.5/ -7.5 it should not be an issue.

When you hang a line you want bets on THAT line so you theoretically split the NEW action on the NEW number. It's never bad for the bookie to split action and make the vig....so what if Joe Blow happens to middle an NFL "8" with a buyback once every 40 times, or even if he gets +3.5/ -2.5 ? The counter action should make that meaningless with a book that has volume. SIA is anal about this.

I'd go even farther and say it should be OK for rollover on bonuses.

Why force the buy-backer to bet elsewhere when you're already gladly taking bets from ANYONE else on the new line ?

It's RETARDED !

Any idiot trying to rollover a bonus by betting both sides will get vigged-out doing it.

I can't determine is more stupider....the books or the players at times !
 

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I wasn't thinking that I could buy myself off the game...your right thanks Doug
 

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Any book that offers Live Wagering shouldn't mind. After all, that is what in-game betting is for.
 

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no book should care........the line is there for someone to bet period
 

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no book should care........the line is there for someone to bet period

agree, books are fvcking stupid !

Doug has team A -2.5 points ( NFL)....line moves to 3.5.

Every Tom, Dick and Habib can bet team B at +3.5, but not Dougie ! Stupidity at it's finest !
 

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no book should care........the line is there for someone to bet period

bingo

i do my scalping at different books (Team A at Phoenix, B at SIA, etc.), but a book that cares is probably a book you don't wanna invest in anyway.
 

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Just say it was a friends bet, plain and simple...

Yeah, the "it was my friend's bet" excuse works pretty well. :lolBIG:

To answer the OP's question, top books like Pinnacle, CRIS, etc will let you scalp all you want. Smaller and/or square books might not like it one bit. Carib is notorious for voiding bets on the opposite side of the first bet or booting the person who placed them, even if they aren't actually scalps. They've complained when people have bet one side at -6, decided they didn't like the bet, and bought out of the bet at +5.5.
 

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