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What You Need To Know To Bet On The Super Bowl (Early Edition)

Here is your early betting info for the Super Bowl, including the line movement, bet trend, money line, and over/under, as well as the performance of the Seahawks and Broncos against the spread and O/U this season. There's been a lot of early movement—rare for Super Bowls—and we'll be updating next ...

What You Need To Know To Bet On The AFC/NFC Title Games (Late Edition)

Below is your late betting info for the AFC and NFC championship games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread and over/under movement is now included, and the money lines, over/unders, and bet trend have been updated....

What You Need To Know To Bet On The AFC, NFC Title Games

Here is your early betting info for the championship round of the playoffs this weekend. We'll update on Thursday with spread and over/under movement....

Five Of The Most Obvious Poker Tells Ever Televised

The poker tell is one of the most romanticized ideas in gambling, the notion that there is a code that will tell you everything about your opponent's hand just waiting to be unlocked. In reality, tells are usually more subtle than they are in the movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't some big, ...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Divisional Round (Late Edition)

Below is your late betting info for the divisional-round playoff games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement is now included, and the money lines, over/unders, and bet trend have been updated. I've also added one extra data point: the over/under movement from the opening line. S...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Divisional Round (Early Edition)

Here is your early betting info for the Divisional round of the playoffs this weekend. Money lines for all the games are already available, but we'll update on Thursday with spread movements. Like last week, we've included the average spread and average over/under for each team, as well as the appro...

Hey, Stupid Sports Radio Guy, You Owe This Man $100 [Update]

Last year, some dumb sports radio guy in Denver named Darren McKee did a thing that only a dumb sports radio guy would do: he bet reader Charles $100 that the Ravens would make the playoffs this year. Now, with the Ravens' season having ended without a playoff berth, it appears that McKee is not a m...

The Paranoid And Obsessive Life Of A Mid-Level Bookie

Check out Doug Brown's fine profile for Cleveland Scene:...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Wild Card Round

Below is your betting info for the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. In addition to the regular data, the charts now display the "season average" spread and over/under for each team, as well as their away/home split for these figures. We'll be back on schedule next week, with an early/late editio...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 17

Below is your betting info for the final week of the NFL regular season. Aaron Rodgers status was settled a bit early this week, so all 16 games are included....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 16 (Late Edition)

Below is updated betting information for the Week 16 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included; major books still haven't opened yet for Steelers-Packers, awaiting a decision on Aaron Rodgers....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 16 (Early Edition)

Here is your early betting info for Week 16 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these game, and add info for Steelers-Packers, which hasn't opened yet....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 15 (Late Edition)

Below is updated betting information for the Week 15 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included; major books haven't opened yet on Packers-Cowboys, awaiting a decision on Aaron Rodgers....

How did two degenerate gamblers dig their way out of massive debt? They became bookies. Cleveland Scene's Doug Brown takes us inside the operation of two of Cleveland's successful bookmakers, who happen to be collecting a lot of money from an agent who represents multiple Browns players. [Cleveland ...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 15 (Early Edition)

Here is your early betting info for Week 15 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these games, and add info for Bears-Browns and Packers-Cowboys, which haven't opened yet....

How The World Cup Draw Affected Each Country's Odds To Win

Hot off the presses from online sportsbook Bovada, each country's odds to win the 2014 World Cup, both before and after today's draw....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 14 (Late Edition)

Below is updated betting information for the Week 14 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included; major books have not yet opened for Browns-Patriots or Falcons-Packers, as they're presumably holding off until starting QBs are announced for C...

West Coast NFL Teams Have A Huge Advantage In Night Games

You know one side of this by heart: Teams on Pacific time get slaughtered when they travel across the country to play an early game, and not only that, they are losers against the spread too. But there's a corollary that might be just as compelling: It seems that west coast teams annihilate east coa...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 14 (Early Edition)

Here is your early betting info for Week 14 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these games, and add info for Browns-Patriots, Falcons-Packers, Seahawks-49ers, and Cowboys-Bears, whose lines are yet to open at several books....

Thanksgambling: A Betting Guide To Thanksgiving Day Football

Thanksgiving Day is upon us, which can only mean one thing (for the purpose of this exercise, we're ignoring things such as binge eating, awkward interactions with family, reckless alcohol consumption, and stabbing strangers for discounted electronics): three times as many NFL games this Thursday! W...