Sharp bettors at CG Technology sportsbook backed Green Bay as a 3-point favorite on the lookahead line and the number climbed as high as 5 before settling at 4.
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Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
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The Bears are 5½-point road favorites over the Redskins after the line opened at 4 and a respected bettor at Caesars Entertainment wagered on Chicago at minus 4½.
The Rams’ 20-13 win was the biggest NFL decision of the season for MGM Resorts and CG Technology, which each needed Cleveland for multiple six figures.
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The Knights led 34-28 in the final minute when Pittsburgh scored on a trick play coach Pat Narduzzi called the “Pitt Special” on fourth-and-goal.
Well versed in probability and statistics, Halpern estimates that fewer than 1 percent of people make money in the long run betting on sports.
Hank Goldberg leads the contest with an 8-2 ATS record, Scott Kellen and Mark Franco are each 7-3 ATS and the consensus picks are the Broncos and Rams.
The line on Sunday’s Patriots-Jets game also dropped by up to a point as New England went from a 22½-point favorite to 21½ at CG Technology and from 22 to 21 at MGM Resorts.
VSiN host Mitch Moss went 4-0-1 ATS in Week 3 and leads the contest with a 9-4-2 ATS record. Handicappers Paul Stone and Dana Lane are tied for second at 9-6.
Besides the strike-shortened 1987 season, this is reportedly the first time since the 1970s that two NFL teams have been favored by at least 21 points in the same week.
Ed Salmons, Westgate sportsbook vice president of risk management, said the Bulldogs are motivated to embarrass the Fighting Irish in a game between top 10 teams.
Tennessee, a consensus 1½-point road favorite over Jacksonville, has won the last four meetings between the teams and six of the last seven.
The Browns opened as 2½-point road favorites but the line shot up to 6½ after Jets quarterback Sam Darnold was ruled out with mononucleosis.
A bettor at CG Technology sportsbook cashed a $424 eight-team NFL parlay for $74,000 when the Cleveland Browns covered the 6½-point spread in a 23-3 win over the New York Jets on “Monday Night Football.”