phixer's nba

phix - you can't be serious.  This game broke all kinds of NBA records.  There's never been anything like this where a team scores 73 in 1H and then 19 in 2H.   If Vegas were truly influential enough to fix games, the last thing they'd want to do, is make it this obvious. 

besides, what difference does it make whether games are fixed or not as long as you can win in the long run.  I'd bet on WWE if I could make $$ in the long run.

I appreciate the transparency with your record and the mad respect around the board means you must be doing something right. But the random conspiracy theory seems odd.

To me, the best evidence that fixes aren't happening is Donaghy's capping skills. The guy was a former NBA ref. If fixes were that rampant, he'd know all the tendencies of the NBA - when they want certain teams to win, to lose. When they want certain games to go over, go under, etc. He'd make a killing in gambling or selling picks.

But he isn't.  He's trying to peddle lousy books about the NBA gambling scandal and isn't finding any takers.

[handshake]  (I can't use the emoticons for some reason).

BOL w/ your plays.

Some might say Douchey; some others would say making a point in a hilarious way and with no harm intended. 

Quote Originally Posted by phixer:

i understand that you're new here and also i have no intentions to disrespect any posts here, but i have to tell you that if you're intentions are to make some money from sportsbetting or any other form of financial gains - you absolutely have to pay an attention to detail and absorb as much relevant info as possible so u can train your brains to sort the fors and againsts. 

sorry for lecturing you but the whole essence of having this thread is forming sort of knowledge data base including strategies and approaches to daily board and if you're not able tp look up as much as the same page you're on - you better find some other venues to gain profits. impatience is what vegas is counting on when dealing with us the degens. dont grant it to them easily

look at #518

and agains my apologies from making an example from your post so many others can benefit.

Here's my personal 'conspiracy' theory.  I think Vegas lines are important as you do, but IMHO, it's not because Vegas "fixes" games. But b/c they have more knowledge than the average bettor.  And the games where the usual favorite has an abnormally small or large point spread against the dog, reflects that knowledge.

For example, one year, I think 08 or so, Denver was a -3.5 favorite at NJNets one day.  Denver led their division.  NJ was the worst team, struggling to win 20% of their games.  Even for a Denver road game, this line was waaay too low. Public pounded Denver.  Line didn't budge. 

As you can guess, Denver got smoked by 25.  It wasn't even close. Months later, it comes out the Nuggets got completely trashed and hungover from partying in Manhattan. Billups completely ripped his team for it.  My theory is that bookies knew that and capitalized.

The story came out in the context of why the Nuggets improved their performance after that game (which they did). 

I only bring this up theory up b/c you mentioned earlier that this thread was share knowledge and opinions.  So I thought I'd contribute mine. But we can agree to disagree.