Bettor wagers $5,000 on Auburn

[aubiefifty 17,487]

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Bettor wagers $5,000 on Auburn, 1 sportsbook has nearly all bets on Oklahoma

James Crepea | jcrepea@al.com

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One better is extremely confident Auburn will at least cover the point spread against Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, while nearly all the wagers at one Las Vegas sportsbook are on the Sooners.

According to ESPN's David Purdum, a "sophisticated better" placed $5,000 limit bet on Auburn plus-4.5 points on Tuesday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, early action was almost entirely on Oklahoma, which opened as a 5.5-point favorite but has since dropped to minus-three, according to VegasInsider.com.

According to ESPN, $7,000 of the $7,027 bet on the Sugar Bowl at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook was on the Sooners.

Auburn (8-4) has covered the spread in eight of its 12 games this season.

Betting limits will increase closer to the date of games.

[FoundationEagle 637]

2 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

Meanwhile at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, early action was almost entirely on Oklahoma, which opened as a 5.5-point favorite but has since dropped to minus-three, according to VegasInsider.com.

Doesnt add up. This isn't how betting line work. If all the action was truly on one side, the line would grow substantially, not shrink by 2.5 points.  The whole point of the line is to find the happy medium where bets are even and the book gets the juice. No way in hades all the action is OK yet the line shrinks.   I smell a typical James Crepea hit piece based on misused info. 

[AUApostle 7,663]

12 minutes ago, FoundationEagle said:

Doesnt add up. This isn't how betting line work. If all the action was truly on one side, the line would grow substantially, not shrink by 2.5 points.  The whole point of the line is to find the happy medium where bets are even and the book gets the juice. No way in hades all the action is OK yet the line shrinks.   I smell a typical James Crepea hit piece based on misused info. 

Early betting was on OK, thus the 5.5 points.  Later betting has trended towards Auburn...resulting in the drop to minus 3.  Poorly worded above, but that's the way I understand the statement.

[FoundationEagle 637]

8 minutes ago, AUDevil said:

Early betting was on OK, thus the 5.5 points.  Later betting has trended towards Auburn...resulting in the drop to minus 3.  Poorly worded above, but that's the way I understand the statement.

Poorly worded by Crepea to indicate that everyone expects Auburn to lose big. Not only poorly worded, but a lie more than likely.  No way the line drops 2.5 points and the only noteworthy comment is one book is almost entirely for OK, that would also have to mean that the other books all favor Auburn heavily to drop the line.  Extremely unlikely unless it's a tiny tiny book meaning Crepea had to dig and dig on this to find a story line that could sound bad for AU. 

[jared52 4,355]

Is $7k not a very small total for a book like that? I'd expect it to be a way bigger number. 

[doc4aday 1,887]

some people are going to lose a ton of money if they bet on Oklahoma to win. Not a gambler in that my hard earned money is to precious to throw away on bets of any kind. I trust my gut feelings 64% of the time, and having Auburn to win falls easily into my 64%.

Craepa or however it is spelled is a horrible beat writer for Auburn. I wonder if the sack man visits him every so often so that he will make Auburn look 4509% far worse than they should look.

[lutzcammed 469]

I won a chunk of change betting on aubutn against alabama.   The line moved from 18 to 21.  I took Auburn.  That article is very misleading to the real process.

[FoundationEagle 637]

6 hours ago, jared52 said:

Is $7k not a very small total for a book like that? I'd expect it to be a way bigger number. 

Likely a stat from about 15 minutes after they opened betting on the game and Creepy used it as his typical misinformation hit piece. 

[Richard78 73]

Should be interesting. Most predictions seem to be for relatively high scoring game. Vegas has the over

under at 62-63.