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So the sportsbook managers who have said they want to win and don't care about even action are lying? Scucci is lying? Roxy Roxborough (a "line maker") is lying?

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You make it sound like wanting to win and caring about even action are mutually exclusive, which of course they aren't.

You are most likely taking quotes out of context, or failing to read between the lines. Again, I realize that it's impossible to get even action - but if it were possible, bookmakers would love to have it. That isn't a myth.



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The way the websites deal two lines is once they peg you as a "sharp", when you login in you get the more sharp line I am not going to give out the books here that do it. But, they aren't small time books that do it.

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I don't even know what "square" and "sharp" mean, but it seems to me you'd have to be ignorant to bet somewhere that doesn't give you a line unless you "login". How many people who can use a computer in the first place are going to take a bad line when they can easily just look somewhere else for a "real" one? I don't doubt that there are operations out there looking to take cheap advantage of suckers, but the main reason a bookmaker is going to make money is simply the juice. Unless sports are fixed.

I am not privy to know to what degree, if any, a particular online sportsbooks ever laysoff action, I was referring to bookmaking in general. But the reason anyone does it is to reduce their variance, i.e., even out their action.