Guide to Betting: Types of Bet

Buying Points allows you the ability to change the point spread of a football or basketball game. You can move the point spread so you get more points if you are betting the underdog or you give away less points if you are betting the favorite. For each half point that you change the point spread you need to pay an extra 10%.

There are two special rules:

1. When buying on or off the number 3 in the Pro Football, there is a premium cost of 25%, not 10%. So for example to move the Chargers from -3 -110 to -2.5, the new line will be -2.5 -135 (lay $135 to win $100). The same is true for the underdog, to buy Bears from +3 -110 to +3.5 will be -135 (lay $135 to win $110).
2. On half or reduced juice games or half or reduced juice days, there are additional premium costs for buying points:
   
   A. for 1-50 points on college football, there is a 5% additional premium.
   
   B. for buying on or off the number 7 on college football, the premium is 25%.
   
   C. for 1-25 points on professional football, there is a 5% additional premium.
   
   D. for buying on or off the number 3 or 7 on professional football, the premium is 25%.

You can only buy a maximum of 3 points in Football and Basketball, both college and pro.

In Running Bets

In Running Bets games must go a full 8.5 Innings for bets to have action.

Baseball Player and Pitcher Props are listed pitchers. The game must go a full 8.5 Innings for bets to have action. If there is a pitching change, all player props for that game will be closed immediately and when the game starts and its confirmed that a different pitcher threw out the first pitch other than the listed pitcher, those props will be graded No Action.

Parlay or Multiple Betting

No parlay wagers can be accepted where individual wagers are 'connected', 'dependent' or 'correlated'. Using a baseball game as an example, let's say you want to take the Boston Red Sox to win on the money-line and the Boston Red Sox on the run-line. If the Boston Red Sox win the game, it is also likely that they will win by at least two runs therefore the selections are said to be 'correlated' and cannot be parlayed together. For the same reason, we do not allow the favorite/underdog on the run-line and the over/under of the same game to be placed in the same parlay.

In the same way, you cannot parlay the line for the first half of a football game with the line for the whole game or the total for the first half of a football game with the total for the whole game, as the two are 'dependent'. Less obviously, but nonetheless correlated, are the favorite/underdog on the spread and the over/under of the same game placed together in a parlay or teaser bet when the spread is greater than or equal to 30% of the total.