Re: Another Mansion free bet
correct.
if Pittsburgh wins by exactly 5 then the bet is a 'push' (sports-bet lingo for a 'tie') and you will get refunded your money.
A 5 point win would be a refund if they were doing the promo or not.
If PIT wins by only 4 then you lose the bet (but Mansion gives you the refund of course...and if you bet on Miami on a different site then you won that bet).
Basically, 'PIT -5' means that you take the final score and THEN you subtract 5 points from Pittsburgh's total (or add 5 points to Miami's total).
So if PIT wins 25-20 then after you take away the 5 point handicap you are left with a 20-20 tie and then ALL bets on this game would be refunded.
The problem with hedging right now is that many sites have MIA at only +4.5.
So if you bet PIT at -5 on Mansion and then bet MIA at +4.5 on a different site then you actually DO have some risk involved in the weird event that PIT wins by EXACTLY 5.
If this were to happen, then you would only get refunded the bet on PIT (but wouldn't win anything) and would lose the bet on Miami.
By the way guys, lots of people are acting like I'm a big expert on this.
I know a little about sports-betting but not very much honestly.
There's also a thread about this in the sports-betting forum on 2+2 which is where some really sharp sports-bettors hang out. They are more familiar with Mansion and their reliability as a sports-betting site (they rate it highly) and would have a better idea of whether Mansion could actually move this line before the game (which I think is unlikely, but I really don't know much about these things, and i think we are kind of in unchartered territory with this promo anyway).
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