Sports Betting on FOX Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\nKnicks of Time<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday, the Knicks were 5.5-point home favorites vs. the Cavaliers. New York was riding an eight-game playoff win streak, including a second-round sweep of the 76ers.<\/p>\n
But Cleveland was having none of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With 7:52 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cavs led 93-71. It was a total runaway.<\/p>\n
Yet at that point, a DraftKings bettor thought: Why not take a $200 shot on the Knicks in-game moneyline, at a hefty +8000?<\/p>\n
It seemed like lighting money on fire.<\/p>\n
But New York stunningly went on a 30-8 run to tie it at 101 and force overtime. Then the Knicks outscored the Cavs 14-3 in the extra period to win 115-104.<\/p>\n
So that $200 flier became $16,000 in profit, in perhaps an hour\u2019s time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s some outstanding ROI right there.<\/p>\n
MLB Money<\/p>\n
Also last Tuesday, a Fanatics Sportsbook customer put down far more money than most people should on a six-leg parlay: $5,000 on an MLB moneyline ticket.<\/p>\n
As I often remind: Parlays are a bookmaker\u2019s best friend. Sportsbooks enjoy nothing more than seeing customers add more and more legs to their wagers. So just keep that in mind every time.<\/p>\n
To the bettor\u2019s credit, the parlay mixed in a couple of short underdogs and four relatively modest favorites. The Dodgers were the biggest favorite, at -165 against the host Padres.<\/p>\n
As it turned out, Los Angeles was the biggest sweat, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dodgers won 5-4, with Andy Pages\u2019 sacrifice fly scoring Alex Call with the decisive run in the top of the ninth inning.<\/p>\n
At healthy odds of +5713 \u2014 just beyond 57\/1 \u2014 the bettor\u2019s five grand turned into a whopping $290,675.89.<\/p>\n
Ladder Day Saint<\/p>\n
As reported over the past month, one bettor is putting a notable dent in BetMGM\u2019s bottom line, on ladders of straight point-spread bets in NBA games.<\/p>\n
A week ago, the customer was up $1.085 million. On Tuesday night, in that aforementioned incredible Knicks comeback, the bettor draped a whopping $775,000 across five bets on New York:<\/p>\n
All five of those bets \u2014 and more than three-quarters of a million dollars \u2014 appeared dead in the water early in the fourth quarter. Then came the stunning rally, with the Knicks not only winning 115-104 in overtime but covering every one of the numbers in that customer\u2019s wagers.<\/p>\n
The bettor profited $466,718 (total payout $1,241,718), running the total profit over the past four weeks to $1.55 million.<\/p>\n
But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the high roller dropped $300,000 worth of Thunder bets on Game 3 vs. the Spurs. Oklahoma City proceeded to give up the first 15 points of the game.<\/p>\n
But Shai Gilgeous-Alexander & Co. erased that deficit early in the second quarter, going on to a 123-108 victory as 2.5-point road underdogs.<\/p>\n
All five bets easily cashed, profiting $167,509 (total payout $467,509), running the bettor\u2019s total profit to $1.72 million.<\/p>\n
Then on Saturday night, the whale bettor tossed $350,000 across six Knicks bets, for Game 3 against the Cavs. And as you might\u2019ve guessed by now, the bettor went 6-0 to pocket $217,173 profit (total payout $567,173).<\/p>\n
That bumped the customer\u2019s total profit to an eye-popping $1.94 million.<\/p>\n
Finally, on Sunday, for just the second time during this incredible run, the bettor had a losing night. And it was sizable.<\/p>\n
The high-roller had $350,000 across six spread bets on the Thunder for Game 4 vs. the Spurs. But San Antonio ran away with the game, covering every number in a 103-82 home win.<\/p>\n
That noted, the customer is still up $1.59 million in the past month. Further, the big bettor has $200,000 across five wagers on the Knicks for tonight\u2019s Game 4, ranging from Knicks +3.5 to Knicks -2.5.<\/p>\n
More NBA Paydays<\/p>\n
At Fanatics, a customer dialed in nicely on both Game 1 matchups in the NBA conference finals. The bettor put $175 on a six-leg parlay, with three legs from Spurs-Thunder and three from Cavaliers-Knicks.<\/p>\n
The key to that ticket: Dylan Harper +2200 to grab 10 or more rebounds. The Spurs guard finished with 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n
At huge odds of +55850 (558.5\/1), aided by a 10% profit boost, the bettor bagged nearly six figures, turning $175 into $97,911.72.<\/p>\n
In Wednesday\u2019s Spurs-Thunder Game 2, a Fanatics customer rode ostensibly a free play into a five-figure win, banking on Oklahoma City\u2019s Isaiah Hartenstein to have a good night.<\/p>\n
The wager was $109 in FanCash on a two-leg parlay:<\/p>\n
Hartenstein +1400 to have 10 or more reboundsHartenstein +700 to score 10 or more points<\/p>\n
Add up those odds, and you\u2019ve got +14000 (140\/1). Hartenstein finished with exactly 10 points and grabbed 13 boards. And that free bet became $15,260 in real money.<\/p>\n
Bad Beat<\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s second round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, a Hard Rock Bet customer dabbled in betting on just one grouping: Jordan Spieth, Sungjae Im and Chris Kirk.<\/p>\n
The bettor put $400 on Spieth +200 to outshoot his playing partners.<\/p>\n
Spieth shot a respectable 2-under 33 on his first nine. Then he went haywire with six straight birdies en route to a 7-under 29 on the second nine, for a 9-under 62 total.<\/p>\n
Almost any other day, that would\u2019ve been more than adequate. But over the final three holes, Im shockingly got a hole-in-one, followed by a par, then a closing eagle-3 on a par-5 to shoot 61.<\/p>\n
Granted, it was only $200 to profit $400. But that one\u2019s gotta sting.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Hoping You Had It<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not always about making bets for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Sometimes, it\u2019s about finding that long shot or semi-long shot and just getting 10 bucks on it to fatten your wallet a bit.<\/p>\n
For example, in Game 1 of the NHL\u2019s Western Conference finals, the Golden Knights\u2019 Dylan Coghlan was +7000 to score the first goal. With 7:30 remaining in the second period, Coghlan lit the lamp, and Vegas went on to a 4-2 road upset of the Avalanche.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d put a tenner on Coghlan, then you\u2019d have an extra $700 in your pocket. Heck, even if you\u2019d bet Coghlan as an anytime goalscorer \u2014 rather than the first goal \u2014 you\u2019d be up $150, as he was +1500 to score at any point in Game 1.<\/p>\n
On the PGA Tour, Wyndham Clark was +4800 to win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson this past weekend. Clark then fired a ridiculous 10-under 60 in the final round to post a 30-under 254 total and a three-shot victory.<\/p>\n
Ten bucks on that would\u2019ve netted you $480 profit. And a DraftKings Sportsbook customer did far better than that, putting $400 on Clark to bank $19,200.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a nice weekend\u2019s worth of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the advent of live in-game wagering a few years ago, good timing became an even bigger part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6359,245034,49,48,2357,245035,19215,487,501,459,2901,82],"class_list":["post-693702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-betting","tag-big-bets","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-fairplay-big-bets","tag-gambling","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}