Sunday Best Bets, Saturday Recaps
Saturday was full of sports betting and horse racing action for yours truly, but also family time.
While still visiting my oldest child, Jordyn, at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., we spent the day at Bearizona (a Jurassic Park for bears and other wildlife with a drive-thru area and also a zoo-like area) and night at Lowell Observatory. Thanks to sports betting being legal in Arizona, I was able to keep up on my bets and had a great day. I lost my supposed top play on the Brewers First 5 Innings +125 vs. Cardinals as the Cards led 6-0 after 5 innings on the way to a 6-0 victory as I suffered my first MLB loss of the season, dropping to 2-1-1 (still a profit of 1.2 units). Eric Lauer didn’t contain the St. Louis bats as I expected and the Brewers offense couldn’t get to Jordan Montgomery (not a good combo). I won my XFL play on the Vegas Vipers +7 at the St. Louis Battlehawks. We got the best number at +7 as it was bet down to +5 and hopefully our followers got the best number as well. However, the most important thing is that we were on the right side the whole game and got the cash as the Vipers covered all numbers even though the Battlehawks rallied to force OT and won 21-17. But we made our most money in the NHL with our First-Period Overs. Our Best Bet was Ducks-Coyotes 1P Over 1.5 -140 / Flames-Canucks 1P Over 1.5 -155 with the parlay paying +182 and we scored as Ducks-Coyotes was tied 1-1 and the Canucks led 2-0 after the opening 20 minutes. In Saturday’s column, I also hinted at playing a round-robin with my top plays along with Lightning-Senators and Oilers-Sharks as those both had 3 goals apiece in the first period to win any combination of 2’s, 3’s or 4’s (I wish I had used that on the VSiN Best Bets page!). VSiN follower David Allison mentioned that he played it and hopefully there were others. Let’s get to the rest of our (full-game) recaps of Saturday’s betting action and then look for more winners on Sunday (unfortunately, only potential 1P Over play is Avalanche-Ducks with only two games on the NHL schedule).Saturday Recaps
NBA: Favorites went 2-1 SU on Saturday, but underdogs led 2-1 ATS with the upset by the Jazz (+10 in 118-114 win vs. Nuggets), plus Blazers (+17) covering in 136-125 loss at Clippers. The Timberwolves (-15) covered in a 151-131 win at Spurs. Home teams 2-1 SU but road teams led 2-1 ATS. Overs swept 3-0.
More NBA: On the season, favorites lead 798-401 SU with 16 games closing pick-'em, but dogs improved slim lead to 590-582-27 ATS (50.3%). Home teams lead 707-508 SU and 605-585-25 ATS (50.8%). In totals wagering, Overs’ slim lead improved to 610-587-18 (51%).