Another scalping question- Shouldn't you make an offer 100% of the time?

[Iceman]

I think I ma figuring this out but if a game is lined -125 and +119.

No matter who you like (dog or favorite) wouldn't you make an offer EVERTIME of -123 or +123.

Wouldn't that be smarter than taking either line of -125 or +119.

This seems to easy, what am I missing here?

 

[Iceman]

I meant another exchange question. Getting so excitied I couldn't type

 

[Iceman]

bump

 

[levistep]

One question i've had about scalping is how do you make sure that you are able to "lock in" the price? I know at Olympic they give you a minute to make the bet, but what about other sites? I've seen scalp opportunities, but by the time i can even open an IE browser to sign on my account the opportunity is already gone. I'd hate to bet half my bankroll on one side of a game to find out the scalp is gone and have to take a guaranteed 5% loss or so betting the next best line.

 

[Iceman]

One question i've had about scalping is how do you make sure that you are able to "lock in" the price? I know at Olympic they give you a minute to make the bet, but what about other sites? I've seen scalp opportunities, but by the time i can even open an IE browser to sign on my account the opportunity is already gone. I'd hate to bet half my bankroll on one side of a game to find out the scalp is gone and have to take a guarantee -5% loss or so betting the next best line.

best advice I give you is to bet at the slow moving square book first. Nothing is guaranteed but the bad line will be gone 1st

 

[jeckll]

Use firefox, open both sites to the "confirm wager" page, click both right after one another, you should be able to do it within 2-3 seconds. The chances of odds changing in that time are quite slim, and books will often let you cancel if you call right away in that case.

RE: making offers, the problem with that is the simple answer that there's no guarantee that it's going to be accepted.