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[QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 4479349, member: 9355"]
Sportsbooks do take positions for sure and I wasn't talking about prop bets, parlays, and teasers. I get the Tiger Woods bet because if public took the other side of that bet they are only getting 10 cents on the dollar and in the likely hood of that not happening the sportsbook would get the entire dollar.

But on the spread they are trying to get the action to even out or come close to even and they usually determine the line based on the sharp bets that come in early and then adjust accordingly to attract the public that isn't in the know or at least that's what I have read in several publications-I don't know if that is outdated. They certainly don't want to be overexposed to one team too much. An example is when favorites win in a given week in the NFL the sportsbooks usually lose because the public usually likes to take the favorites or involve them in mulitple bets. But the point of the original post I was responding to, which I should have made more clear, [B]is that spread is not a prediction of what sportsbooks think will be in the actual outcome of the game.[/B]
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