TTinCO said:
It's a double top secret operation by the Bush administration. They can't stop it, they can't tax it, so all they can do is work with the NFL to take down the offshore bookmakers by bringing the money back onshore
Just a thought
Is there a vast right wing conspriracy?
Well ... lets consider a couple of facts (or at least I think they are facts).
Where does the line for a NFL game come from? Does it come out of mid-air? aliens? someone ass? - no.
Traditionally, it was the Stardust on the Las Vegas strip who set the lines and everyone else eventually followed suit.
With the internet gambling, it seems to me that Pinnicale sets the line, and others follow them eventually.
What is interesting is that Pinnicale sets their lines for their competitors. This is the same as in Vegas with Stardust setting the line for their competitors.
The difference between Pinnicale vs. its competitors, and Stardust vs. its competitiors, is that Pinnicale is the big fish in that industry.
Suppose that Stardust set a bad line. Well everyone takes that bad line and eventually it may get a little better. But the casino book takes a hit, so I am told when a bad number is posted.
Suppose that Pinnicale sets a bad line. Well, would the books, all who follow Pinnicale's line when they set their line, wouldn't all books take a hit on a bad line too?
But in Pinnicale's case, they are the big fish, they might think they can withstand a couple of hits by delibrately setting bad lines, just to see the competiting internet bookie bleed.
For instance, didn't everyone think today that Jacksonville -2½ and Minnesota -2½ was rather low? Maybe that is what they are doing.
Setting the usual favourites like Indianapolis and San Diego and New England, the so called public teams the usual inflated lines - but then low ball the line for the favourite for the rest of the NFL games. In economics, this is called predatory pricing. Here I am only asking.
Do you believe in conspriarcies???