The Betting Champ

 

Congrats to Van!

The Betting Game - 2/7/21

 

Good Luck!

5:30 p.m. (CBS) Chiefs -3 v Buccaneers  o/u 56

The Betting Standings - 1/25/21

 See you in two weeks.

The Betting Games - 1/24/21

 

2:05 (FOX)  Buccaneers @ Packers -3.5  o/u 52

5:40 (CBS)  Bills @ Chiefs -3  o/u 54.5

Good Luck! 

The Betting Standings - 1/18/20

The Betting Games - 1/17/21

2:05(CBS)  Browns @ Chiefs -9.5  o/u 55

5:40(FOX)  Buccaneers @ Saints -3.5  o/u 50.5

Remember you must bet at least $300 each game day or you lose it. 

Good luck! 

Please check your balance for accuracy.

The Betting Games - 1/16/21

Here are the lines for Saturday's games.

3:35 (FOX)  Rams @ GB -6.5   o/u 45.5

7:15 (NBC)  Ravens @ Bills -2.5   o/u 49.5

Good luck!

The Betting Standings, 1/11/21

Update (1/11/21 10:40): Looks like there's some mistakes in the standings. I'll update later today.

Update 2 (5pm): Standings are updated & checked.

The Betting Games & Standings - 1/10/21

 Here are Sunday's lines. Place your bets in the comments of this post.

12:05 (ESPN)  Ravens -3 @ Titans  o/u 54.5

3:40 (CBS)      Bears @ Saints -10    o/u 47.5

7:15 (NBC)      Browns @ Steelers -6 o/u 47.5

If you missed it in the comments Saturday, the payouts are as follows:

1st - $280

2nd - $80

3rd - $40

Here are the standings after day 1:

Please check and make sure I have your tallies correct.

The Betting Games - 1/9/21

Here are the lines for Saturday's games. (All times CST)

12:05 (CBS)  Colts @ Bills -6.5  o/u 51.5

3:40 (FOX)    Rams @ Seahawks -3  o/u 42

7:15 (NBC)    Buccaneers -8 @ Football Team  o/u 44.5

Good luck!

The Betting Pool: Fake Gamblin' Our Way To Truth, Justice, and the American Way

As I contemplate the annoying timing of our existence it occurs to me; this world needs a hero. That seems like a big ask. But, perhaps a tiny portion of this world needs a different kind of hero? One that encourages them to fake gamble on some sportsball? THAT seems more attainable.

Am I that hero? The second, less impressive one? I dunno - *looks away* - I did use a semicolon earlier that wasn't necessary and is possibly grammatically incorrect... I guess maybe... Or, - *looks up with a tear in his eye* - maybe I just want to gamble more without losing my house payment.

Welcome to The Betting Pool - 2021 NFL Playoffs Edition! It is simple and fun. It's true, you can look that shit up on Snopes. The rules are below. If you have questions, feel free to contact me. If you would like to keep the angry pixies that dance about the internet far away from your stimulus check, contact me for alternative means of payment.

Here's how it go:

• Each player gets $1000 in fake cash
• You will bet against the spread or the over/under on whichever games you like.
• Lines will be given via a post on this here blog each morning the evening before the games.
• Bet by commenting on that blog post before the game starts. You do not need to register, but make sure we know who you are. (You can practice by commenting on THIS post if you wanna know what that looks like. If you have an issue with commenting, lemme know.)
• You must bet at least $300 each day that games are being held, up to and including the Super Bowl.
• You must NOT bet more than you have, or the bet will be voided and I will curse you and your grandmother for making me do extra sypherin' & figurin'.

A double sawbuck (20 American Dollars) is all you need for a ticket to ride. You are officially IN when I gets yo money. Saturday @ Noon (CST) is the first game & deadline. 

Good luck. Who knows, maybe YOU'LL be the next hero!

The Betting Champ - Sweet 16 Edition

Congrats to Tyrone for winning the Sweet 16 Pool. See ya'll next year!

The Betting Pool - Sweet Sixteen Finale

8:20 Virginia -1.5  vs  Texas Tech.   118

The Betting Standings & Final 4 Games

Here are the standings with only three games (and three players) remaining.

Final Four (April 6) games:

5:09  Virginia -5.5  vs  Auburn   130.5
7:49  Michigan St. -3  vs  Texas Tech.   132.5

The Betting Standings & Games - 3/31/19

Here's the standings. Remember, fellas, you have to bet at least $300 every day (if you have it.)

Here are today's games:

1:20  Kentucky -4  vs  Auburn   140.5
4:05  Duke -1.5  vs  Michigan St.  148.5

payout is 120/60/20. Good luck!

The Betting Standings & Games - 3/29/19

Here's the standings:

Today's games:

5:09  Gonzaga -5  vs  Texas Tech  137
7:49  Virginia -4.5  vs  Purdue   126

The Betting Standings & Games 3/29/19

Well, that was a lot of shitty betting! Good thing you suckas are playing this game instead of losing the mortgage payment!

Here are today's lines:

The Betting Pool - 2019 Sweet Sixteen Edition

We'll be kicking of the finale this Thursday and it'll run through the Champeenship game. $20 once again to enter. PayPal/Venmo me to enter.

Here are the lines for Thursday's games, so you can go ahead and get started with your handicapping. Place your bets in the comments of this post.

Good Luck!
UPDATE 3/28 10AM: It's Florida STATE that is playing Gonzaga, to be clear.

Thursday, 3/28/19

The Betting Winners - 2019 Big Dance Edition

JT is on fire. Here's the final standings. Everyone please make sure your tally is accurate and let me know ASAP if you think there is an error. I will send out the winnings tomorrow.

Thanks, everyone, for another great game. We'll be running a Sweet Sixteen edition that will run from Thursday through the champeenship game. That game will be $20 as well.

The Betting Games - 2-22-19

Here are today's lines. Remember that today is the last day! I'll have the standings up in this post as soon as I can. Good luck!

Maryland  vs  LSU -1.5   147  11am
UK -5 vs  Wofford   138.5   1:40
Michigan -7  vs  Florida  120  4:15
Florida State -6 vs  Murray State  144   5:10
Gonzaga -12.5  vs  Baylor  148 6:10
Michigan St. -10.5  vs  Minnesota  142   6:45
Purdue -3.5 vs Villanova  137   7:40
Kansas  vs  Auburn -1.5  147.5   8:40

UPDATE 11:35AM: Standings updated. Last couple games yesterday weren't registering.

The Betting Games - 3-22-19 - or - Ooof

I'm working on the standings fellas... my brain hurts. But meanwhile, here's the games for today.

UPDATE 2: I had dropped Hadji's bets some how, so he's now in. 24 players! Sorry Hadji!

The Betting Games - Thursday 3/21/19 -or- Go Time!

Here are Day One's games. Place your "bets" in the comments. Remember, you must have PayPal'd your entry fee to be "in."

Good luck!

2019 Warm Up Winners

Here are the final standings. The strategy is always interesting at the end and this was no exception. Hambone had been in the lead the entire contest, but JT slipped past at the buzzer. Payouts are 100/40/20.

We'll be starting the Big Dance addition on Thursday (running thru Saturday.) You'll have up till the 1st game to PayPal me $20.

The Betting Games - 3/17/19

Final day is here! Will Hambone cool off?

Here's the games.

11am  Yale -4.5  vs  Harvard  145.5
Noon  St. Louis  vs  St. Bonaventure -1  121.5
Noon  Tennessee -4  vs  Auburn  149.5
1pm  UTArlington  vs Georgia State -3.5  139
2:15  Cincinnati  vs  Houston -4  129.5
2:30  Michigan  vs  Michigan St. -1  134.5

Good luck everyone!

The Betting Standings - After Day Three

Update: Dr. Pfister did not bet yesterday, so he has $300 less. I'll get a new leaderboard up as soon as I can.

The Betting Games - 3/16/2019

Here are today's games playas. Remember, this game includes Sunday's games as well , but there's only 6 games tomorrow.  (Next week the game will only run Thursday - Saturday.)

*Lines are updated*

Good Luck!

11:30am  Michigan St -4.5  vs  Wisconsin  o/u 129.5
Noon  Florida  vs  Auburn -2.5  o/u 134
1:30  Princeton  vs  Yale -10.5  o/u 142.5
2  UK  vs  Tennessee Pick'em!  o/u 142
2:30  Michigan -9.5  vs  Minnesota  o/u 130
2:30  St. Louis  vs  Davidson -3.5  o/u 129 
4  Wichita St.  vs  Cincinnati -5.5  o/u 130
5  Kansas -2.5 vs  Iowa St.   o/u 146
5:30  Seton Hall  vs  Villanova -4  o/u 136
6:30  Bowling Green  vs  Buffalo -10  o/u 157
7:30  Duke -9  vs  Florida St.  o/u 145.5
9:30  Oregon -1.5  vs  Washington  o/u 121.5

The Betting Standings - Day Two

*Updated 9:15am. Had the wrong amount on a bet Ben made.

The Betting Games - 3/15/19

Here's today's games boys. If you missed it, the standings after Day 1 are in the post before this one.

11am  Houston -10 vs UConn  o/u 141
11:30  Michigan St. -11 vs Ohio State  o/u 135
Noon LSU -2 vs Florida  o/u 135
1:55  Wisconsin -6.5 vs Nebraska  o/u 126
5:30  Villanova -6 vs Xavier  o/u 136
6:00  Virginia -9 vs Florida St.  o/u 126.5
6:00  Kentucky -11.5 vs  Alabama o/u 136.5
6:00  Purdue -8 vs  Minnesota o/u 139.5
8:00  North Carolina  vs  Duke -2.5  o/u 164
8:00  Tennessee -5 vs  Mississippi St. o/u 147
8:25  Michigan -8 vs  Iowa o/u 142
10:30  Arizona St.  vs  Oregon -1.5  o/u 132.5

Good luck!

By the way, payouts will be 100/40/20.

The Betting Standings - Day One

Here's the Oh-fishal standings after day one. Please verify *Dennis Green Voice* you have what you thought you had!

*UPDATE - Hadji pointed out I had his wrong - and he's out. If you point out to me an error that had been in your favor I'll give you $5 off the next game!*

Games and lines will be up soon.

The Betting Games - 3/13/19

Here are the games and lines for Day 1. We'll be using the opening lines from Scores and Odds dot com. (If that works out, we'll do it for the big dance next week too - lemme know if you don't like it.)

(All time CST.)

11:30am  Iowa State -3 vs Baylor  o/u 145
11:30am  Indiana -1.5 vs Ohio State  o/u 128.5
Noon  Arkansas vs Florida -3  o/u 133
1:30pm  Creighton -3 vs Xavier  o/u 139.5
4:30pm  UNLV -1 vs San Diego State  o/u 137.5
6pm  Alabama vs Ole Miss -2.5  o/u 141
6pm  Penn. State -2 vs Minesota  o/u 135
6pm  UNC -6.5 vs Louisville  o/u 151
6pm  Texas Tech. -13 vs West Virginia  o/u 138
8pm Duke --10.5 vs Syracuse  o/u 144
8:30pm  Georgetown vs Seton Hall -2.5  o/u 150.5
8:30pm  Kansas -2.5 vs Texas  o/u 137.5

The Madness is Nigh!

It's nearly time for our fake-gambling basketball extravaganza!

This year's Warm-Up will be Thursday (3/14/19) through Sunday (3/17/19) and will be $10 to play. 

The main event for the Betting Pool will begin the following Thursday (3/21/19) and go through Saturday (3/23/19) and will be $20 an entry.

PayPal is the preferred method to pay, you can do so at this link.

Contact me if you need help with how it works or how to pay.

See ya soon!

2018 Sweet Sixteen Edition Final Standings -or-

Welp, another year in the books and I think it went pretty well. Stic killed it in the Sweet 16 edition and didn't even mind that he lost his Duke bet at the end. Don't know about you guys, but there was a lot of strategerzation and smack talk going on in my circles, so I count it as a big success.

Thanks, everyone, for  playing. We'll see ya next year!

The Betting Lines 3-25-18

Here's the lines for the final day.

(1) Villanova -6.5 vs (3) Texas Tech.   o/u 144.5   1:20pm
(1) Kansas vs (2) Duke -3   o/u 155.5   4:05pm

Good luck everyone!

2018 Sweet Sixteen Edition Standings After Day 3

Here's where we stand heading in to the last day. Stic stayed hot but the Michigan push kept things wide open.

Payout is 200/100/40 - tie-breakers settled by Win% then win$.

I'll have the lines up shortly.

The Betting Lines 3-24-18

Four games to go boys. Good luck!

(9) Kansas State vs (11) Loyoa (IL) PICK'EM o/u 126.5  5:09pm
(3) Michigan -4 vs (9) Florida State o/u 144.5  7:49pm

That's it? Not enough basketball dammit.

2018 Sweet Sixteen Edition Standings After Day 2 -or- D's Long National Nightmare Is OVAH

All great things must end, and thus D's streak of EIGHT-MOTHERFUCKIN-TEEN bets missed in a row ended last night w/ the Duke/Cuse ovah. We had a hell of a run friends.

Lotta great action yesterday. I'll have the lines up shortly.
UPDATE 3:10 - Missed one of Baum's bets.

The Betting Lines 3-23-13

Got distracted by how pissed I am at Nevada. Here's the lines:

Kansas -5 vs Clemson o/u 143 6:07
Nova -5.5 vs West Virginia o/u 152.5 6:27
Duke -11 vs Syracuse o/u 132.5 8:37
Purdue -1.5 vs Texas Tech. o/u 137.5 8:57

Good luck!

Sweet 16 Edition Standings Day 1 -or- The Carnage!

Welp, that was some weird shit. 11 out of 16 players had money on Nevada - and they forgot to play defense and then didn't foul down one w/ 34 seconds left. Not that I'm bitter about that total moronic fucking bullshit coaching.

I thought last night that the standings would be ugly, but turns out that it's only ugly for a handful of us. Including me! Yay Fake Gambling!

UPDATE 9:30: Added BK

I'll have the lines out around lunchtime.

The Betting Pool - 2018 Sweet Sixteen Edition

Away we go for the Sweet Sixteen Edition! Good Luck everyone!

The Betting Pool - Final Standings

Here's the final standings. Congrats to Baumgart, Hadji and Hambone. Everyone check your bets and let me know if you disagree. I'll send payouts tomorrow. Considering doing another one next week - are you guys interested in that? Lemme know.

The Betting Games 3-17-18 - or - Final Day!

Here are the lines for the final day. There promises to be tons of great fake gambling action!

Good luck everyone!

The Betting Pool Standings After Day 2

Here's the standings after Day 2. As always check your bets. I'll have lines out soon. Sorry for the delay - I was over-served AGAIN. Goddam servers.

The Betting Pool Day Two Lines -or- Do You Think You Could Miss 12 Bets In A Row If You Tried?

Here are today's lines. Post all bets in the comments. Standings are in the post before - If you think there are errors e-mail or text me.

Good luck!

2018 Betting Pool Standings After Day One - or - How Bout That Davidson Cover?

Below are the standings after day 1. Please check to make sure you have what you think you have - I was over served yesterday and numbers make my head hurt.

Reminder that we'll be playing thru Saturday. We have 19 players - the payouts will be 220/110/50.

10:20am Updated - missed one of Greg's Bets

2018 Betting Pool - It's All Happening

Oh, hell yah, it's time to roll!

Below are today's lines. Post all of today's bets in the comments of this post. If you have questions on how this thing works then check out the rules post. If you STILL have questions post them in the comments of this post. You can post your comments/bets under "anonymous" but make sure and include your name!

Good luck!

Almost Time!

The 2018 Betting Pool starts tomorrow! If you haven't paid your entry yet, get to it! You've got until the first game starts tomorrow. 

It's gonna be awesome!

The Betting Pool - 2018 Warm-Up Final Standings

Congrats to Ryan on a game well played. There was a flurry of betting and strategeration yesterday - was pretty fun if you were following along. Again, the payouts are 80/30/10. Here's the final standings:

Had Oakland scored one less point last night Tyron, Greg & BK would have been the top three! Gambling!

Thanks for playing everyone. I was able to work out some kinks and the game we run in a couple weeks should go smoothly. It will be easier since all the games for Thursday and Friday will be in place before we start and we shouldn't run into not having a line till late (I never did get a line for Lipscomb yesterday).

The entry in two weeks will likely be $20 or $25. Feel free to invite friends to play. I'm not sure if I'm going to do it the entire first 4 days or just the Thursday & Friday. It will require a lot more work to extend to the weekend and I'll likely be hungover. Feel free to e-mail me or use the comments of this post to offer your opinions or suggestions on what we can do better.

See ya next week!

2018 Warm-Up - Final Day

Here we go folks, the last day. We'll pay out 80/30/10 for the top 3. Here's the standings before the games today:

And here are the games. Not all the lines are out yet, so I'll update them as soon as I can. Not as many games available today, so if you made a drunken ill-advised bet late last night there's not as much chance to make up for it.

11am Cincinnati vs Wichita St. -3 o/u 141.5
11am Holy Cross vs Colgate -6.5 o/u 130.5
1pm SMU -7.5 vs South Florida o/u 128.5
1:30 Towson -1.5 vs William & Mary o/u 160
2pm Temple vs Tulsa -2 o/u 140.5
2pm East Carolina vs Memphis -12 o/u 141.5
2pm Lipscomb vs FGCU -no line yet
3pm Connecticut vs Houston -14 o/u 142
3:30 Tulane vs UCF -7 o/u 130.5
3:30 Michigan vs Purdue -3.5 o/u 137.5
6pm North Dakota St. vs IPFW -1.5 o/u 150.5
6:30 IUPUI vs Oakland -6.5 o/u 148.5

Good luck everyone!

The Betting Games - Day 2

I'm trying to figure out an issue on the spreadsheet so bear with me... better now than hungover on the 2nd day of March Madness. Here are the games for today. UPDATE - Mich/MichSt line added. Also fixed standings - I had one of Tyrone's bets wrong. Warm-up!

11am Xavier -7.5 vs Depaul o/u 157
11am West Virginia -5 vs Texas o/u 140
11am UK vs Florida -5.5 o/u 143.5
1pm Clemson vs Syracuse -1 o/u 124
1pm Baylor vs K State -1 o/u 135
1pm Michigan vs Michigan St. -5 o/u 135.5
1:30 Creighton vs Marquette -1.5 o/u 163.5
3pm Notre Dame vs Virginia -9 o/u 120.5
 3pm Kansas -3.5 vs Ok State o/u 153.5
4pm Georgetown vs Villanovaa -18.5 o/u 157
5pm Louisville -1 vs NC State o/u 157
5:30 Cal vs Arizona -18 o/u 144.5
7:15 UNC vs Duke -7 o/u 161.5
9pm Nevada vs SanDiego St -2 o/u 153.5
9:15 UCLA vs USC - 5.5 o/u 157

I THINK this is the correct standings. Please check your bets to make sure you know how much you have left to bet.

 

The Betting Games -UPDATES- 2018 Warm-up Edition - Friday 3/2/18

Away we go. Part of the reason we wanted to do a warm-up edition is to work out the kinks for the first weekend of the NCAA Tourney. One "kink" we've already come across is that not all the lines are out yet. I don't believe that was a problem during the big dance last year. Regardless, below are the lines that are out so far. I will update later with lines as they come out. (It's odd that there's a line for all the Ivy League games but not the B1G ones. Whatevs.)

11am Michigan St. -10.5 vs Wisconsin o/u 132.5  
2:30 Bradley -1.5 vs Drake o/u 138
6pm Princeton -2.5 vs Brown o/u 145.5
6pm Harvard -10.5 vs Cornell o/u 140.5
6pm Miami (OH) -4 vs Ohio o/u 142
7pm Davidson -1.5 vs Rhode Island o/u 144.5
8pm Oklahoma -9.5 vs Iowa State o/u 166.5
8:30 Indiana St. -1 vs Illinois St. o/u 145


UPDATED with new lines:
1:25 Michigan -5 vs Nebraska o/u 133
5:30 Penn. St. vs Ohio St. - 4.5 o/u 136
6pm Missouri St -2.5 vs Southern Illinois o/u 136.5
7:55 Rutgers vs Purdue -14.5 ou 132
9pm Austin Peay vs Belmont -8.5 o/u 146.5
10pm Pepperdine vs Santa Clara-2 o/u 136.5


Reminder, you must bet at least $300 fake dollars a day. Make your bets in the comments section of this post. 

I'll send an e-mail when the lines are updated. Good luck!
  

The Betting Pool - 2018 Warm up addition

March Madness is nigh and we're gonna play the game again this year. We're gonna do a warm-up this coming weekend (Friday 3/2/18-Sunday 3/4/18) - the B1G tourney will be going on along w/ a full slate of good games.

Contact me if you have questions or need to know how to enter.

The Betting Pool Winner - 2017 Sweet 16 Edition

Congrats to CAT for winning this weekend's game. Ben and Shawn got 2nd and 3rd. Verv and JWar were the only other guys w/ money left on the table, and that's just b/c they stopped playing after Thursday and just lost $300/day.

Seemed like a good time - please let me know if you have any ideas for changes or improvements. We may fire it up again come football season. We will definitely do it again for next year's tourney.

The Betting Games - Sunday March 26th

"If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son / I got 99 problems and a spreadsheet is number one"

Got IT department (Hambone) working on the spreadsheet... in the meantime, here's today's lines:

South Carolina vs. Florida -3.5    o/u 136

Kentucky vs. North Carolina -2.5    o/u 160

Update: Hambone fixed the spreadsheet!

Here's the standings.

The Betting Games - Saturday March 25th

Here's the standings after Friday's games:

If you want to view the whole spreadsheet to review your bets, click HERE.

*Note that Verv and JWar did not make the minimum $300 bet so the lose that $300.

Here's Saturday's lines. Good luck!

5:09pm Xavier vs. Gonzaga -8   o/u 145

7:49pm Oregon @ Kansas -7    o/u 156.5

The Betting Games - Friday March 24th

Here's the standings after last night. I had a bit of a rough go of it. Cat, Ryan and Shawn jumped out in the lead.

So here's the lines for tonight's games. Place your "bets" in the comments.

Butler vs. North Carolina -7.5   o/u 153

South Carolina vs. Baylor -3.5   o/u 135

UCLA -1.5 vs. Kentucky   o/u 165.5

Wisconsin vs. Florida -1.5   o/u 131.5

The Betting Games - Thursday, March 23

Here's today's games and lines. Please place your bets* in the comments section. I recommend you sign in, but at least use a consistent name with each bet*.  Email or text me if you have any problems.

Michigan -1 vs. Oregon   o/u 147

West Virginia vs. Gonzaga -3.5   o/u 149

Purdue vs. Kansas -5   o/u 157

Xavier vs. Arizona -7.5   o/u 145



*Bets are fake. Money is fake. This is for entertainment and bragging rights only.

Welcome - Here's the Rules

1. Each player gets $1000* with which to bet.*
2. Bet* any games in the contest against the spread or over/under using the lines made available in a blog post the morning of the games.
3. Post your bets* in the comments of that post. (You do not have to register.)
4. You must bet* at least $300* each day of the contest. (You can bet your whole bankroll on the first game if you want - you just have to bet a minimum of $300*/day - if you have it.)
5. Player must not bet* more than his current balance at the time of the game. If you bet* more than you have, the bet* is cancelled. 

That's it. We'll post updated standings each morning of the contest and send a link to this site via e-mail.

We hope to be having contest for various sports and times of the year, so any rules specific to that contest will be in the invitation e-mail.




*Contest money is fake money. Bets are with that fake money. These contests are for entertainment and bragging rights only.