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Why Scouting Services Have Some Bettors Winning and Other Gamblers Losing More Than Ever

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A preeminent offshore oddsmaker
stated that the schism between the sharp player and square bettor has never
been larger. “Professional bettors are winning at a higher rate than ever
before, but luckily (for sportsbooks)
there are more losing bettors,” this offshore betting pioneer asserted.

This gap is widest in NFL betting. The oddsmakers and
sharp players continue to advance, but the square gets suckered more than
anytime in history. The reasons are quite elementary.

Extensive prognostication ammo is readily available. Usage
of the thoroughgoing volume though is so time-consuming its complete deployment
is confined to the oddsmaker, learned full-time
handicappers and the professional gambler.

About 20 years ago, the boiler room sales pitches from the
toll-free blowhard touts included cookie cutter boasts about having scouts “all
over the country” work for them and crowing about “inside information”.

Now, with small monetary investments and enormous time
expenditure, bettors can have “scouts” working for them, especially in NFL predictions.
Yes, this means employing intuitiveness from former NFL players who scrutinize
game film for hours.  Who knew how
prophetic the snake oil touts really were when they alleged scouts labored for
them?

As much flack as I often take for giving props to the
four-letter evil empire, ESPN Insider continues to be one of our beloved
sources for betting intel.

Via their Scouts Inc, which is led by Jeremy Green the son
of former NFL and college coach Dennis Green, sports investors get first-rate
scouting reports from film room junkies.

Former NFL players Ron Jaworski
and Merrill Hoge also give valuable game film
insight. Jaworski has been known to camp at NFL Films
and one can bet (so to speak) that he does have a tremendous point of observation

Speaking of NFL Films, their Senior Producer Greg Cosell has his “Film Room Blog”
on FantasyGuru.com, one of the best sites for fantasy football with overlapping
handicapping vantage points. In includes Cosell’s
notes from “watching coach’s tapes”. Considering his status and employer, he’s
not blowing smoke. His reports are comprehensive, profound, and invaluable for
my NFL handicapping.

Sports Xchange, touted by Howie Long and John Madden, is consumed by sundry media
outlets and by yours truly in the NFL and MLB.

How about college sports? Scout.com is the centralized
portal for Internet and hard copy team specific sites, that in their words,
“publish inside and exclusive content” on many of the teams. The caliber of
intuition varies greatly from team to team, but sifting through the filler
content often uncovers handicapping wisdom.

The next time you hear a handicapper claiming to have
scouts with inside information, he may actually be telling the truth. There is
one certainty, the oddsmakers have the skinny and the gambler is in serious hardship
without it.

The more advantages the bettors’ opponent has the less
leverage for the gambler. Make no mistake, the oddsmaker
is the enemy. The cost of not having a scout’s angle has never been greater.

The only way to counteract the munitions that the linesmaker has is to use that same artillery against him.
Luckily the bookmaker has to post odds long before the investor needs to
finalize his picks, allowing the gamester to empower superior real-time
information.

The Information Age continues to be great news for both
the oddsmakers and professional speculator, while the hunch bettor underwrites
at an accelerated rate. To that we are forever grateful.

The author, Joe Duffy is CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com
where you can opt to be part of the elite club of winning bettors, or chose to
finance those who are. 


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Ross Benjamin

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A few have emailed the power of 620
sports services behind every selection and asked about Ross Benjamin.
He is actually among the better handicappers according to our databases.

Also, GodsTips has said about 6-10 times a year his plays
influence their competition consensus plays, a huge staple of GodsTips being
widely accepted as the top sports handicapping service ever.

What is a competitor consensus?  If we do not have a lean towards one side but
it does not rise to the level of premium play, but get a strong play or
consensus from the few other handicappers we respect, we pass it as a
“competitor consensus”.

Ross Benjamin occasionally has a voice worth listening to
but is not in the same league as the regulars on the MasterLockLine reports Cy McCormick, head of the largest online betting syndicate MasterLockLine.com,
which has the top plays from the top
sports services in their highest ranked sports.      



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Bob Akmens Sports, AKA BASports

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Bet at 5Dimes


A few clients of MasterLockLine.com
have asked about Bob Akmens Sports. He may not
have the budget of radio touts Gary Sanders, Jonathan Stone of Sporting News
Radio, or YouTube handicapper Al DeMarco,
but BA Sports has done a good job of getting exposure on the Internet.

Cy McCormick, head of the online betting syndicate and power
of 620 sports
services behind every selection says that Akmens
is decent in college basketball, the only sport where he ranks in the Top 100.

“Before the year is out we will probably bet 5-10 of his
biggest college basketball, but he’s pretty much 50/50 in other sports,” says
McCormick.   


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Sports Betting 101

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For years, betting on sports was taboo. Even though a vast
number of people enjoy wagering on the outcome of sporting events – and always
have throughout human history. In many places, sports’ betting was limited to
secret transactions made through bookies.

Now, thanks to the Internet and the explosion of gambling online, anyone can enjoy sports
betting. Let’s go through some basics that you need to understand if you want
to get into the action!

Understanding Sports Betting—The Vig

Sports betting parlors don’t make money through gambling.
Their goal is to get even amounts of money bet on each side of a wager. They do
this by altering the odds to make one or the other side more favorable, depending
on where most of the action seems to be going.

The way they ensure a profit is by charging a little
extra, usually five percent, on a loss. This is the “vig” or “juice.” So, for a
$100 bet, you could win $100 but lose $105. A

Parlays, Teasers and More

Straight bets aren’t always exciting enough for some
people, which is why online sports betting sites offer fun exotic bets you can
try. Many of these bets involve more than one team winning.

In a parlay, you pick
multiple teams and if you win them all, you receive a much larger payout.

With a teaser,
all your teams have to win, but you get bonus points that you can use to adjust
the spreads to your liking.

There are also if
bets, where your bet on a second game only goes if you win the first game,
and a variety of others that you will find on the sites.

Read up on the latest gambling news to get
good betting tips.

Spreads and Money Lines

Since all sports match-ups are not created equal, the odds
makers have created a way to even things out so that money will be bet on both
sides.

This equality usually comes in the form of a spread or a
money line. A spread means that the underdog team gets additional points.

For example if the Packers are a favorite over the
Dolphins by a five point spread, the
Packers must win by more than five for a bet on the Packers to win.

On the other hand, a money
line gives odds to those taking the weaker side. If the money line on the
Phillies-Diamondbacks game were $110 to $90, a bet on the Phillies would have
to lay $110 to win $90, while a bet on the Diamondbacks would be $90 to win
$110.

The idea is to create bets that are pretty close, so that
players will choose them in more or less equal proportions. In this way, the
odds makers won’t take a huge loss if an unexpected result occurs.


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NFL Odds

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The National Football League has always had a complicated
relationship to gambling. Many of us love to bet on football – it’s both
exciting and fun. The problem is that it’s illegal in most of the US
except Las Vegas. But with the
constantly rising popularity of gambling
online, the thrill of betting on NFL games has become available for people
both in the US
and elsewhere.

The thing is that the NFL doesn’t want to acknowledge this
fact. The NFL has a policy that prohibits gambling related advertisements
during televised games, completely ignoring the fact that many fans also likes
gambling. This was made really clear when the NFL denied the city of Las
Vegas to run an ad during Super Bowl a few years ago. The ad
wasn’t really about gambling, but about Las Vegas
as a tourist town and had already been broadcasted on several American
networks. But the NFL sticks the head in the sand completely ignoring that many
people are drawn to football because
they can bet on the games.

Luckily this is no big issue. Gamblers from all over the
world bet on football online. There is tons of gambling news and sports
betting tips available on the Internet which makes it easy to get solid
information before placing a wager. So sure, the NFL stance on gambling can be
said to be problematic, but it doesn’t really effect the actual gambling.
People in the US who want to gamble, whether it means betting on sports or
playing online blackjack are, only a click away once they turn on the computer.
The question isn’t if but when NFL will embrace this fact. The NFL can definitely
thank gambling for much of the interest for the game.

 

 


Press Releases

NBA Handicappers

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Even if you use Comcast.net email, there is no stopping sports bettors as it’s yet another
spectacular year of NBA betting and as per usual it’s OffshoreInsiders.com
at the forefront making the sportsbooks
barf with fear and sweating blood. The top sports betting service in terms of
units won all-time is GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com.

Led by scorephone legends Curt Thomas and Joe Duffy, as
well as Internet handicapping pioneer Mike Godsey, the gap between GodsTips and
every other sports service is
insurmountable.

Thomas is the world’s only full-time NBA handicapper and
was the winningest NBA and top selling pro basketball handicapper in scorephone
history, back when the telephone scoreboards ruled the gambling roost.

GodsTips has two full season packages to suit needs of
basketball bettors. Every play, every sport from GodsTips, from now until the
end of the Final 4, April 6, 2009 is just $1769. The same option until the end
of the NBA playoffs, June 18, 2009
is just $2499.

For those who have yet to experience the unprecedented
winning of GodsTips, the daily plays are just $17. Once you purchase, the rest
of your gambling life has begun. Your losing days of subsidizing the bookmakers
are gone. Enter the world of professional gambling and be triumphant beyond
your greatest financial goals. Click now to
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While GodsTips is the runaway champion with units won, the
victor in winning percentage is Stevie Vincent, the founder of the
groundbreaking forensic sports
handicapping. Vincent is without debate the greatest totals tipster ever as
mastering
over/under is a huge facet of his historic domination.

For the best of the rest, it’s the power of 620 sports
services behind every selection. Rest assured if there is a handicapper
selection worth betting, the MasterLockLine is well aware of it. From Jim Feist
to James Woods, get them on MasterLockLine. There are no exceptions.

In NBA and college
basketball, Bill Tanner and Castlegate Sports are
beyond debate the top 2 services.  They
rank 1-2 in ROI, total net units won, and winning percentage in the NBA and
overall going back any time period of at least three years.  Only Statmaven Sports has a higher ranking in
college. To say the least, we will ride these services for your benefit again
this basketball season as we have in previous years. You need to take up
fractal geometry at Sarah Lawrence College to keep up with your winnings.

MasterLockLine plays
are also available at OffshoreInsiders.com.
For those who bet on your own, no problem. Get NBA Live Odds,
Chalk Gaming NBA
Matchups, StatFox NBA Matchups, NBA Game Report,
NBA Game Previews,
and NBA Trends.

Don’t just focus on the high
profile teams like the Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, and Cleveland Cavaliers
as the bottom feeders have great money making opportunities as well.

Jeepers creepers, forget the
Charlie Brown characters that scream on the radio to call their 800 numbers for
coin flips. Those great pumpkins won’t win your peanuts. Have your citation
machine bookmark OffshoreInsiders.com
for permanent winnings. Dominating sportsbooks is the house trade of our
handicappers.

In other betting news, Julianne Hough is getting surgery and is leaving
Dancing With the Stars. How will that affect the Vegas
odds? Check out the Hollywood and
entertainment betting
odds. The baseball World Series should resume Wednesday. MLB
odds has interesting prop bets for the
completion of the contest.

We also have some fun at the site taking your nominations for top hottie such as Joan Holloway, AKA Christina Hendricks of
Mad Men. It’s all at OffshoreInsiders.com   


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NBA Betting

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The Philadelphia
weather forecast calls for high winds tonight, though there is a possibility of
rain subsiding tonight. Ironically for Game 5 of the World Series between the
Rays and the Phillies, the cold and wind could be a bigger factor than the
rain. Will the infield fly rule become a factor tonight? Purchase
MLB playoff tickets

While baseball bettors bemoan their bet being washed out
because of the suspended World Series Game 5, we have the objective rundown of
college football and NBA betting picks for Tuesday night.

Let’s start out with the best sports service ever. GodsTips is
led in part by the only full-time NBA handicapper Curt Thomas. His only job is
to pick NBA winners, though he is consulted in other sports. He picks NBA
winners better than anyone ever. He has at least one winner tonight, but here
is the whole story.

A Wise Guy play on the Titans wraps up another winning
week in football for GodsTips. Since preseason, we have had winning weeks 11/13
in the NFL and 10/13 in all football. We have a Tuesday night college football
winner to start out another winning week, plus the Cavs-Celtics side to start
out another winning year in hoops. Steam very possible as well. Click now to
purchase for $17 from GodsTips.

Football guru Mike Godsey, also of GodsTips, says the NFL
power ratings for week 9 show some early signs of yet another spectacular
weekend. No handicapper dominates any sport the way Joe Duffy’s GodsTips does
the NFL.

The power of 620 sports services behind every
selection just keep rolling along with a 107-71 mark in football.

In NBA and college
basketball, Bill Tanner and Castlegate Sports are
beyond debate the top 2 services.  They
rank 1-2 in ROI, total net units won, and winning percentage in the NBA and
overall going back any time period of at least three years.  Only Statmaven Sports has a higher ranking in
college. To say the least, we will ride these services for your benefit again
this basketball season as we have in previous years.  

New No. 1 CFB for
2008. One of the greatest all-around handicappers ever is No. 1
in college football betting for this season. Bill Tanner is the No. 1 college and NBA handicapper
combined since 1995.  About 10 years ago,
he lapped dinosaur “Doc” as the top Big 10 handicapper in the land. Oct. 25 it
was Oregon and Penn
State sweeping.  Oct. 18 he hits his only Platinum Play of the
week in CFB on SMU, on Oct.
11 he goes 2-1 with Minnesota and
Oklahoma State,
Oct. 4 he sweeps with Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Temple.
On the greatest NCAAF run
of his career, Tanner has another Platinum Play tonight on Houston/Marshall
side

Bo Eason is the No. 2 ranked handicapper all sports
combined since 1990 and No. 1 in MLB. 
His 10*s have turned a profit in every sport (college and pro counted
separately) literally every year since 1990. 10* Parlay of the Year wins on Oregon
and Penn State
Saturday Oct. 25. Weeknight Game of the Year  is on Buffalo/Ohio.

Kal Elner, a handicapper out of Reading,
PA hits a consistent 65 percent when
“waiving his normal star rating system”. 
He is also the all-time top NBA totals capper. Waive the rating
Bucks/Celtics over/under.

Mark the Shark, the top handicapper west of the Mississippi
hits 60-65 % of his Game/Total of the Month or higher plays.  He is without question the top Pac 10 and
Mountain West tipster in America.
He’s been offered nearly seven figures per year to join a famed Las
Vegas sports handicapping marketing giant, but has
spurned offers because they demanded marketing concessions that would
negatively affect his modules. NBA Game of the Week is on the Blazers/Lakers.

Now let’s turn to the groundbreaking tipster Stevie
Vincent. The founder of the revolutionary forensic sports
handicapping has four angles that are 100 percent with at least six games
involved. The
Great One is passing on the first night of pro basketball as his
“less is more” philosophy supersedes any desire to simply make the quick sale. Click now to purchase

In other betting news, it seems out goes Tony Romo and in comes televisions Dr. Travis Stork dating
Carrie Underwood, the American Idol sensation. Check out the latest Hollywood
and entertainment betting
odds.

Other news sees Lawrence Taylor’s son Brandon committing
to play at Purdue and of course Ty Willingham out at Washington.
Check out the latest college football odds.

Can Amy Borkowsky raise enough
money to buy an ad during the Super Bowl to find a husband? After seeing a few
pictures of her, I think she really needs to buy an ad for the sight impaired.
We are not sure whether her publicity stunt works but we can tell you the
Tennessee Titans are now the favorites to win the Super Bowl
according to the Vegas odds.  

Amy looks like she should consult LivingTo100.com to find
her date, because she looks like she’s about twice her fortysomething
age.


Sports Betting News

Thursday Betting

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There are a pair of college
football games on the schedule for Thursday night, while the Phillies and Rays
play Game 2 of the World Series. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup.

The Gridiron Spotlight

West Virginia
will host Auburn in one of two
college football games on Thursday night (college football odds), and
neither of those teams have performed well for their supporters this season.
The Mountaineers beat Syracuse 17-6
last time out, but that margin wasn’t big enough to keep them from dropping to
1-4 against-the-spread on the season (they’re 4-2 straight-up). The Tigers are
even worse at 1-6 ATS (4-3 SU), and they lost 25-22 to Arkansas
in their last game. West Virginia
is pegged as a 3-point home favorite, with a total of 38.

In the other game it’s New Mexico
at Air Force in a battle between second-tier Mountain West teams. The Lobos
absolutely crushed San Diego State
70-7 last time out to improve to 4-4 (5-3 ATS) on the season. The Falcons are
coming off a slim 29-28 win over UNLV which pushed them to 5-2 (4-2 ATS). Air
Force is listed as a 5-point favorite.

The college board to us, means
who the sportsbooks posts odds on.
We don’t know SAT scores, check out collegeboard.com for that. We know scores
and odds at OffshoreInsiders.com so
you can avoid having your house on Realtytrac.
 
Other Notable Events

Stevie Vincent wins World Series Game 1 as he has the
Phillies. That’s not bad for a handicapper who is 16-3 in college football
betting.

It’ll be Brett Myers versus James Shields in Game 2 of the
World Series on Thursday (Purchase
MLB playoff tickets) night. Myers picked up a victory against the Dodgers
in the NLCS in his last outing, but it was an ugly performance – five earned runs
on six hits and four walks over just five innings of work. The righthander gave up just two runs in his NLDS win over Milwaukee.

Shields was tagged with the loss
twice in the ALCS against the Red Sox, although he
wasn’t pounded in either outing. The righthander
allowed two earned runs on six hits over 7 1-3 innings in his first start
against Boston, and then
surrendered three earned runs on nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. Tampa
only scored two runs over those two games.

The Rest of the Schedule

The puck will drop on seven games in the National Hockey
League on Thursday night, with the top matchup in Minnesota
where the Wild will host the Sabres. Those two teams
are a combined 9-0-1 so far this season. Also on the NHL’s
schedule: Toronto at Boston, Dallas at the Islanders, Calgary at Nashville, Carolina at Pittsburgh, and Edmonton at Colorado. As well, the Caps will hit the ice in Phoenix
to close the night.

There’s also a full slate of NBA preseason games on
Thursday, with Atlanta at Detroit,
Milwaukee at Minnesota,
Miami at New
Orleans, Indiana at Dallas,
Portland at Utah,
Oklahoma City at Phoenix,
and Houston at Sacramento.
As well, Charlotte will be in Los
Angeles to play the Lakers; Kobe Bryant left Tuesday
night’s game with a knee injury.

News from the Wire

Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo
says he won’t play against Tampa Bay this weekend . . . the Chiefs added
quarterback Quinn Gray to their roster . . . Broncos linebacker Boss Bailey is
out for the season with a knee injury, while defensive back Champ Bailey will
miss at least a month with a groin injury . . . Browns tight end Kellen Winslow has been suspended by the team for one game,
and will sit out this week against the Jags.

A Peek at the Future

The World Series resumes Saturday in Philadelphia,
with the Rays’ Matt Garza battling the Phillies’ Jamie Moyer. Garza allowed
just two earned runs on eight hits over 13 innings in the ALCS
versus the Red Sox . . . the Chargers opened as 3-point favorites against the
Saints for their game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday,
with the total at 47 points . . . Carl Edwards is the 5/1 favorite to win this
week’s Sprint Cup race in Atlanta.