Middling strategy??

So I’m a firm believer in middling bets live during games. 

example yesterday, I had Memphis -1 at tip, had in my head that I wanted Michigan +10 live in order to middle it. Well at one point early in 2nd half, Memphis was up 15 and I could have got double digits on Michigan, but I didn’t pull the trigger. My thinking on holding off was Memphis D is stout, no way I thought they would let Michigan crawl back into that game. Sure enough, Michigan cut the lead down to 1 late in the game 

lucky for me, Memphis pulled out the 4 point victory and I won the bet, but missed out on a great doubling up chance. 

Do you always middle when your bet gets way up, or do you just let it ride? 

@bittenbythehook

 Not always, but often yes. Depends on whats happening in the game and what spread ive bet. On bigger spreads i go for middle more because its far more likely to get backdoored. I dont bet as much college bball as football but use the same strategy. 

On a spread of only -1 with a huge lead i dont see the need to go for middle as you are more likely to negate your winnings. 

Now say you have a bigger spread like Memphis -8 and they are up 17 and you can grab the other side +19 or something like that, i would probably take that. Would not try for a middle of anything less than 10 pts.

I thought same thing about negating my winnings, that’s why I laid off of taking Michigan + double digits. The game ended up going from what looked like a pretty easy win, to wanting to kick myself for not hitting that + double digits middle