So, who made money on the Super Bowl?

[AngryAmish]

I did. heh.

[Yavin4]

1. I Told Everyone I Knew Take Carolina and The Points

I said bet the house on it.

[AngryAmish]

2. You, sir, are smart.

[Kamika]

3. 500 bucks

thanks.


I would have lost 200 if Carolina had won.. and as I feel right now I would have been ok with that :(

[Awsi Dooger]

4. You take the Super Bowl, I'll take Manhattan!

Manhattan Jaspers, that is. I absolutely love them tonight!

My bigtime speculation on Sunday was Manhattan -15 1/2 hosting Canisius. Tied 26-26 at halftime and 46-46 with 10 minutes left. I left the sportsbook in numbed dismay and headed home to watch the Super Bowl. Then I got a 62-54 tick with 3 minutes left, and the fabulously lucky final of 72-56! Conference college hoops with my patented preseason ratings system are glorious!

It's no sweat making a profit on the Super Bowl if you live in Las Vegas, as I do. Especially with the two week gap. The sportsbooks put up so many props it's just a matter of legwork and applied math to bet both sides of the props and guarantee a profit. You can give 13 to win 10 at one joint and take 14 to win 10 at another, a simple matter of turning the juice in your favor although it takes plenty of cash outlay to make it worthwhile. A couple of friends and I always pool resources during Super Bowl week.

Kudos this year to the Mirage, which put up the extremely modest (i.e. idiotic) pointspread prop of Carolina plus 14 1/2 points at 260 to win 100. Other places were correctly charging up to 360 to win 100 on that number. That was the only risky outlay I made, briefly in jeopardy when it was 21-10.