More Gutsiness from Vegas Sports Books. In their never-ending quest to achieve supreme wimpiness, Las Vegas sports books are looking to reduce their parlay card payouts. We re not as outraged as that statement makes us out to be. We understand sports betting is a business, and Vegas not only worships the bottom line, but the town s bet barons are under orders not to lose money. Those are the payout numbers that are under consideration for downward adjustment at several properties.
Cards come out on Wednesdays at a few books and Thursdays at the rest.
Sophisticated wagering techniques of deep-pocketed syndicates bet into the cards static lines, and find enough edges of as many as 1 points to make football weekends extremely uncomfortable for the books. Using customized computer software to put together combinations of games with frozen lines, the wiseguys get full leverage out of small advantages. We re not going to rip them for commonsense defensive measures. But it is too bad that the vast majority of players who are not wiseguys are also penalized. A long time sports betting columnist, Buzz Daly publishes the offline publication Players Choice .