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09/02/2010 - Freehold, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Pacing's Triple Crown gets started on Labor Day with the running of the $300,000 Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway. Eight three-year-old pacers have been entered for the one-mile stakes.
The Triple Crown will continue with the Little Brown Jug on Thursday, September 23 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Ohio and the Messenger Pace at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday, November 6.
Meadowlands Pace winner One More Laugh will start from the inside post for the Cane Pace. The gelding will be driven by Tim Tetrick for co-owner and trainer Ray Schnittker.
Along with the Meadowlands Pace, One More Laugh also claimed the Art Rooney Pace this year at Yonkers. He was second last time out to Rock N Roll Heaven in the $500,000 Battle of the Brandywine at Harrah's Chester. Rock N Roll Heaven was second in the Meadowlands Pace.
This year One More Laugh has won four of 10 starts for $924,614. In his career the pacer has earned more than $1.5 million with 13 wins in 22 starts.
Breaking from post two will be Delmarvalous and driver Brian Sears. Sears won the 2007 Cane Pace with Always A Virgin.
Trained by co-owner George Teague, Jr., Delmarvalous won the $500,000 Delvin Miller Adios earlier this year and he was fifth in the $500,000 Battle of the Brandywine. He has won two of 11 races in 2010 for $443,070.
Teague also has I'm Gorgeous in the race. The three-year-old will be driven by Andy Miller from post four.
Last week I'm Gorgeous went wire-to-wire to win the Cane Pace elimination in 1:50 4/5 to equal the track record. The colt won three of 12 races this year with $315,446 in earnings. He won the $200,000 Battle of the Brandywine Consolation at Harrah's Chester on August 22.
Here is the complete field for the race in post position order: One More Laugh, Tim Tetrick; Delmarvalous, Brian Sears; Urgent Action, David Miller; I'm Gorgeous, Andy Miller; Rockin Image, Yannick Gingras; Valentino, George Brennan; Woodstock, Ron Pierce and Bg's Folly, Daniel Dube.
Post-time for the Cane Pace is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. (et) on Monday.
There have been 10 Pacing Triple Crown winners with No Pan Intended the last to do sweep in 2003. Vintage Master, driven by Daniel Dube, won last year's Cane Pace.
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In terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy.
It is called the "pointspread."
Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.
But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.
A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.
In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.
The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .
Don't believe it? Just take a look at what happens around the Super Bowl.
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The most popular sports to bet on are NFL and college football along with NBA and NCAA basketball. There are multiple betting opportunities within those sports, beginning with the basic wager on a game’s outcome (also called betting the side). College Football Point spreads are used in both football and basketball in an attempt to even the attractiveness of each team in a match-up. ( See our article detailing how and why point spreads are made)
But you could also simply bet on the money line, or straight-up winner of the game. Oddsmakers use the money line so that more money must be risked on the favorite or expected winner and less money on the underdog to balance the action on both sides. While money line gambling is an attractive option for football and basketball bettors who only care about picking a winner, it is the primary option for those bettors who enjoy wagering on MLB baseball and individual sports like boxing, tennis, golf and racing events such as NASCAR. ( More details on playing the Money Line)
Another bet across all major team sports including football, basketball, baseball, and hockey involves wagering on the amount of scoring in a game, called an Over/Under total. For example, the Over/Under total on Super Bowl XXXIX was 48, which means a bettor could wager whether there would be more or less than 48 points scored by both teams combined in the game.
The final score of Super Bowl XXXIX was 24-21; the scoring of both teams added up to 45, which means the game went Under . So Under bettors won, and Over bettors lost.
Sports gambling doesn’t end there. Betting sides and totals are the most common wagers available everywhere, but many sportsbooks also offer future bets on big upcoming events like who will win next year’s Super Bowl and what movie will win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The main advantage of futures is that you can get appealing odds by betting far in advance. For example, with NFL futures you often can get much higher odds on a team by betting before the season even starts. A NFL future bet on a team to win the Super Bowl odds might be 20/1 in the preseason; but by midseason, their odds might decrease to 10/1 if they turn out to be legitimate championship contenders.
Involves one individual wager, whether it be on your team to cover the point spread, to win the game straight-up on the money line, or to go over/under the total.
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