Another Mansion free bet

[flight2q]

You want the minus 5 one. It is the one with the
minus 110 line. The 4.5 bet has a minus 120 line.
The promo says you are supposed to take the 110 line.

[P Rockets]

Yeah Flight, that's true.


I just wanted to make sure that between -4.5 and -5 that -4.5 is considered the 'minimum point spread'.

[P Rockets]

Sorry, I want to correct my last post.
I meant to say - I just want to make sure that -5 is considered the minimum point spread.

[inside??]

I think they are offering this to increase the traffic in their poker room.

[greg nice]

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Maybe it's just me, but I'd think a bonus like this could really [censored] up a site if they lose. If 1k people take them up on this promotion and Miami wins, that's $1.1 million they lose. If 10k people, it soars to $11 million.

That's a lot of money for one sports book to be putting on the line.

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couldnt they hedge their end of the bets?

[CharlieDontSurf]

Odds that everyone bets this and then they say u need to be 10x the amount u depsoited etc? slim to none right?

[thomasperfecto]

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You have to go to a different book or they will not refund you shabun.

Also anyone who hasn't signed up for Mansion and wants an extra $90 kickback I have an affiliate who if you sign up through and place a minimum $50 sportsbet (Which this one would count towards) you get the $90 in Neteller or Paypal. PM for details.

-Brendan

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Don't you get 900 points and then have to earn an additional 100 points before getting a $100 voucher?

[AnthonyH]

so to make things perfectly clear, the point spread means that if Pittsburgh wins by 5 points or more, we will win $1,000?

[CharlieDontSurf]

well if the line is pitt -5 then no...they have to win by more than 5 for u to win yr bet

[MicroBob]

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).