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11/05/2011 - Louisville. KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Amazombie took the lead late down the stretch and gave jockey Mike Smith his 14th Breeders' Cup win in Saturday's $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Sprint. The five-year-old covered the six-furlongs in 1:09.17 on a fast track at Churchill Downs.
Trained by co-owner Bill Spawr, Amazombie was racing along the rail in the middle of the nine-horse field. Coming out of the final turn Smith moved the gelding off the rail to find running room.
Amazombie caught Force Freeze with a 100 yards to run. Smith got his mount to the wire a head in front of Force Freeze followed by Jackson Bend and Aikenite.
The gelding picked up his 10th career win in 23 starts and adds $810,000 to his earnings. Spawr's horse has banked more than $1.5 million. Smith is now one win behind retired jockey Jerry Bailey for the most World Championships victories.
Amazombie paid $17.80, $7.40 and $5.00. Force Freeze returned $7.00 and $5.00, and Jackson Bend paid $3.20 to show.
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1 Novak Djokovic in Saturday's semifinals at the Swiss Indoors Basel tennis
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Nishikori dropped the first set
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Sunday, but it was good enough to hold off Tommy Fleetwood and win the
Challenge Tour's season-ending Apulia San Domenico Grand Final.
Pavan finished 72 h
Regally Ready wins Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint >>
Louisville, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Regally Ready, ridden by Corey Nakatani,
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Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs.
Sent off as the 2-1 favorite in the 14-h
Bayne claims first Nationwide win at Texas >>
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taking Saturday's O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge in dramatic fashion at Texas
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Louisville hangs on to upset No. 24 West Virginia >>
Morgantown, WV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dominique Brown ran for a three-yard
touchdown with 1:50 remaining and the Louisville Cardinals hung on for a 38-35
upset of the 24th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers.
The Cardinals took a 38-28 lea
No. 18 Georgia routs New Mexico State >>
Athens, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Aaron Murray threw for 238 yards and five
touchdowns to five different receivers as No. 18 Georgia roughed up New Mexico
State, 63-16, at Sanford Stadium.
Chris Conley led the way with 126 yards on f
In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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