Friday NHL Best Bet, Thursday Recaps
Thursday was spent catching up with some errands and chores in and out of the Tuley’s Takes home office as well as monitoring the NFL Championship Game line moves plus some horse racing.
I also helped post the horse racing picks of my friend, Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed), on Saturday’s big Pegasus card at Gulfstream Park. It’s the biggest card since the Breeders’ Cup and has become one of the biggest annual winter racing events on the calendar. My picks will be in my regular “Team Tuley’s Thoroughbred Takes” column at VSiN.com/horse-racing/ on Saturday morning. As for my sports picks, we returned to the winner’s circle with Blackhawks-Flames 1P Over 1.5 -135/Ducks-Avalanche 1P Over 1.5 -145 for a parlay payoff of +194. The Ducks and Avalanche both scored in the first 10 minutes to easily cash that leg as both games were played at the same time, but we had to sweat out the other as Blackhawks-Ducks was scoreless for nearly 18 minutes before both teams scored to get us the cash! We’re just 5-6 with these NHL 1P Overs, but because they’re at plus-money, we’re not back up 2.88 units.
Let’s recap the rest of Thursday’s betting action and then look for a Best Bet on Friday as we’ll stick to the ice. And then, as has become our custom around here, we’ll rerun our NFL column from Wednesday and update our “takes” on the NFL Championship Games based on the current lines.
Thursday Recaps
NBA: Underdogs went 4-2 SU and ATS on Thursday with the upsets by the Knicks (+8.5 in 120-117 OT win at Celtics), Pistons (+7.5 in 130-122 win at Nets), Hornets (+3 in 111-96 win vs. Bulls) and Mavericks (+1.5 in 99-95 win at Suns). Road teams also went 4-2 SU and ATS. Over/Unders split 3-3.