Pinnacle NCCAB Totals...WTF!

[HPark1]

Are they short on staff or perhaps to lazy to change the actual betting line.

Whats with all the solid numbers?

Biggest example 2nite.

<TABLE borderColor=#ffffff cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 rules=all width="100%" border=2 frame=box><TBODY><TR bgColor=#eeeeee><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left>Mon 1/3

</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left>521</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left>Brown</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> +17.5 -101 </TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> </TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> OVER 140 -247 <TD vAlign=center align=middle rowSpan=2></TD></TR><TR bgColor=#eeeeee><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> 04:30 PM</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left>522</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left>Providence</TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> -17.5 -109 </TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> </TD><TD class=main_body_blk noWrap align=left> UNDER 140 +221</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>


What is to make of this?

 

[gak555]

bump

 

[lander]

I do not care for these sort of lines.

 

[Muddy]

thats just stupid

 

[bigbet1234]

translation.....if you can find over 140 at 10c juice, pound it!

 

[lander]

BB,
Good luck finding that. Maybe a crackhead local, but that's about it.

 

[Woody0]

They've installed a new computer programme for NCAAB?

 

[wilheim]

CRIS is using 148.5 flat (-110)



140 Over -247
140 Under +221

where is the value?


wil.

 

[WildBill]

This kind of stuff was inevitable. Used to be only major TV games and the tournament when you could bet totals, now every insignificant game has one up. They are so incredibly beatable that Pinny is basically saying we don't want the action much, but if we put it up there in some unorthodox manner where no one is going to match us, we likely chase away the sharps to other books. Those who still play these numbers probably have no clue how to handle the ML component and end up beating themselves. Just my take on it.

 

[go2guy]

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1-Jan-05</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom noWrap>1-Jan-05</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom noWrap>Basketball
Total</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom align=left>Georgia Tech/Kansas (U 140) for Game</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom noWrap align=right>+300</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom noWrap align=right>xxx.00</TD><TD class=accountText vAlign=bottom noWrap align=right> xxx.00</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Don't see how they can continue to hang lines like this too long. Someone could have played the suicide vig tonight on the Providence game to go over and played the under @ 148-149 and made a pretty penny on the middle. I've been noticing Pinnacle doing weird things regarding their college b-ball games lately outside of this as well. Personally I think Pinnacle is the best book out there right now but it seems like they are gambling/experimenting alot lately.

 

[jjgold]

most bettors don't go for those wacky lines

a slight red mark now with Pinny, 1st time they are showing signs of weakness

 

[Slash]

It seems to me they don't want to get middled so they adjust the juice instead of the spread. And it's quite obvious that the college bb total lines adjust automatically...