Cavs Championship futures ticketholders?Save yourself the grief and put those babies in the shredder

Why would I offer you 30-1 AFTER they signed Lebron/Love/Marion/Miller etc. etc. etc.????

You don't even understand the point of the thread.

The ticket will pay $0 and the overwhelming majority of bettors will not hedge or it simply won't be practical to do so, hence, it's a $0 dollar ticket...

I've said this MANY times. It's a bit above your head at this point...

Quote Originally Posted by fadeORdie:



Wow that was gold

It would be gold...if I had money on it, of which I wouldn't bet a single penny on such a thing this season, and possibly not in this lifetime...

You're reaction is actually gold and speaks to who people here know you are.

Excuse me.

Where did I say they have a 'decent chance to win'? YOU think they do. That is your opinion. If you do, that's nice. Now go back and weave a basket because I've said 10,000 times THEY WILL NOT WIN IT ALL and that is why I CREATED the thread.

What don't you understand about that? Do you read any of the posts?

Let's repeat for the troglodytes here.

If they do not win it all, the ticket pays $0.

If you can't effectively hedge, the ticket pays $0.

And effective hedging is quite hard to do...

Who is going to hedge out of the Cavs if they play Milwaukee, Charlotte, Miami in the first round?

Who will hedge if they play the Wizards in the second round?

These are the SAME people who are saying they have a good chance to WIN IT ALL. Yes, those people will hedge out of a series against the Heat.

Hence, no hedge until the alleged (if they make it there ECF), and then what?

Hedge out against the Raptors/Bulls/Hawks and lose how much? $500? $1,000?

You think the average $100 bettor on a 30-1 longshot is going to put $1,000 bet AGAINST a 30-1 ticket and then what?

Hedge out in the finals (if they make it)? With a very possible negative ML? For what? Another $1,000?

No. The average $100 bettor thinks the ticket will win and will play it safe (in their minds) and let it ride.

Do they have $2,000 to drop in a hedge? That's not chump change to many squares despite what you think it is.

That is the point.

The 'effective hedge' isn't very attractive or reasonable to the average square who won a lottery ticket with a 30-1 shot and LBJ/Love  behind it so they'll do what they usually do...let it ride.

Hence, if they don't win it all....

Excuse me, the thread was made at the beginning of the season to temper the hysteria that the Cavs will WIN IT ALL before a basket has been sunk in a regular season. It was a counter to everyone who believed they were holding a winner, when that winner was in fact, a loser.

I don't have to book any bet to prove my point or take such odds. I can say a bet will lose without booking it in theory. Injuries can always derail a futures bet and I don't have to take on any such liability in theory to prove a point. And that, at this point, is the only way the Cavs take it all down.

Quote Originally Posted by suuma:

It's entertaining how people fail to discuss the real intention of this thread and just use this platform to express their bad attitude by attacking the thread opener.

Scal do you see it as some kind of entertainment to respond to stupid comments ?

I'm a masochist of sorts suuma....

I try to spell it out. I try to help them and they just don't see it.

Monster

Always amazes me how dumb people are out there to actually believe all this. Just an absolute fool, guys like this are NEVER successful in life, ever . . . .

We don't all know that.

The guy said I had a Knicks futures bet to win it all which is positively laughable in his attempts to try to attribute that to me. I wouldn't make that bet this year and possibly not in this lifetime.

And no one made a MASSIVE BET on anything. Do you see units in my threads?

It's a straight bet, just like the hundreds of others on here every night that win and lose and win the next night and lose the night after that. Wow! How unusual! A bet didn't hit.

This thread is about a 30-1 shot. He said I took an even longer shot (actually, one a shot that had no chance of hitting) and now you are taking his EXACT words about a futures and tying them to a O/U season win total? It's fairly amazing. Even when others are wrong, they are right and when I correct them, I'm wrong. Not in this thread idiot. You barked up the wrong tree.

And you're a stalker in all my threads (and dozens of others).

Yes, yes, I'm insane. I only have the backing of one of the most respected posters in the NFL forums in Suuma agreeing with me but I'm insane...Makes perfect sense!