by The Sports Diva, TSD Magazine
I watched the Women's Individual All-Around Gymnastics Final and screamed YAY instead of FIXED as US gymnast Nastia Liukin came away with the gold medal and Shawn Johnson was right behind her with the silver. Then I just had to see what everyone was saying. And I found this article: Why So Few Sites Offering Odds On Olympics Women's Gymnastics? Do people really gamble on gymnastics? Am I being naive here?
Anyway, if you are a gymnastics betting man you would know that Shawn Johnson was the favorite. Followed by Yang Yilin and then Nastia Lukin. Now I've never done any betting myself so I really couldn't tell you what any of it all means. What I can say is this. Next time, just put your money away. I do not feel like hearing on CNN that someone bet on a gymnast who was suppose to win and she fell and then that someone kidnaps said gymnast and there's a high-speed chase. It will only end badly. So please, for the sake of my television, just put your money away.
Friday, August 15, 2008
DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY GAMBLE ON GYMNASTICS?
Posted at 9:37 AM ET
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That's what a lot of people don't get--the Olympic offers some of the best wagering value opportunities that you'll find anywhere. A lot of sports talk types who don't understand these things like to make jokes about wagering on low profile events, but that's *exactly* what professionals want to do. Most really sharp handicappers avoid high profile things like the Superbowl like the plague.
The Olympic snowboard halfpipe competition in the last Olympics was basically free money...long story short, anytime you have a sport on which bookmakers can't set an accurate line, and which the general public doesn't know anything about that's like winning the lottery to a sports bettor who knows what he's doing. Granted, most of them don't but that's why they're called "squares". The "sharps" clean up on events like this...
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