Juice and line movement?

Question

What is the connection between juice and line movement? IE... when the line moves up why does the juice go down or stay the same?

apxsurgical · Answer

What is the connection between juice and line movement? IE... when the line moves up why does the juice go down or stay the same?

dj_destroyer · Answer

-3 [-105]-3 [-107]-3 [-110]-3 [-112]-3 [-115]-3 [-118]-3.5 [&#x2B;110]-3.5 [&#x2B;104]-3.5 [&#x2B;101]-3.5 [-105]-3.5 [-109]-3.5 [-112]-3.5 [-117]-3.5 [-124]-4 [&#x2B;106]-4 [&#x2B;102]-4 [-105]Just the way it works...

apxsurgical · Answer

Okay I see that but why at -3 does the juice keep rising but all a sudden when the line moves to -3.5 the juice turns to plus then minus and so on... i noticed some people talkin about reading the line and juice movement and that is sometimes why some people make plays off of the line and juice movement but i dont understand exactly what im looking for...

apxsurgical · Answer

Reading those numbers and watching your avatar jiggle is very distracting...

bargainboytrav · Answer

The juice turns to &#x2B; when you go to 3.5 or any higher spread number because it obviously gives you less of an advantage to win the bet, especially if this example is for a football game where the number 3 is the most important key number as this is the number that most NFL football games will end up on.  If you bet a favorite at -2.5 as opposed to -3.5, you have a pretty big advantage.  Juice will also probably change for any sport such as basketball, but this example would be probably the most extreme case of juice change (-3 to -4). Hope that helps.

bargainboytrav · Answer

Also, when a lot of money goes on one side of a bet, a bookie will generally want to stay at the number until he needs to balance the action by slowly adding more vigorish like in the example here before he actually changes the number.

apxsurgical · Answer

so can i use this as part of many determing factors for placing bets?

thirdperson · Answer

&#xD;&#xA;Shopping for the best line helps in the long run.  But generally, line movement is irrelevant half of the time in predicting the future.

dj_destroyer · Answer

Line movement isn&#x27;t any easy thing to cap... You have to be able to tell whether a line is moving because of sharp steam or just because it&#x27;s getting bet heavily. You have to know where the bets are coming in so you can determine where the money is coming in; after all, reverse line movement is the easiest indicator.But yes, you said right, it is just one tool of many in your arsenal of capping methods and techniques.

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