When Bookies Make Big Line Errors

[Performify]

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Allow me to answer your question with a question:

My bookie dropped his wallet. I picked it up. It contains thousands of SklanskyBucks.

Should I return it?

For what it's worth, I'm stuck for year.

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This analogy isn't valid, IMO.

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"Fixed" the analogy if you want to be a complete nit.

(not like it wasn't "fixed" before, considering most of us would consider "massively +EV" to be the same thing...)

-P

[domer2]

maybe he hung a bad line purposefully...either way, he is responsible for what he puts out there. if he is up on you, i wouldn't even sweat it at all. if you routinely bet bad lines he'll probably stop booking your action, but an errant line or two, nah. i've heard guys grumble about typos or clerk error before. they live with it.

dali situation is 180 degrees different, or as Jason Kidd would say, 360 degrees different

[AllinDan]

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It sounds like he set the perfect template for your correct action here.

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[Lori]

Even if you don't want to be ethical, telling people about mistakes has bigger EV in the long run than not.

[CrushinFelt]

Hammer line. Win. Find new bookie.

[Thremp]

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Hammer line. Win. Get stiffed. Find new bookie.

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[Henry17]

I wouldn't find the need to correct the bookie.

[Thremp]

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I wouldn't find the need to correct the bookie.

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How long do you expect to keep being able to play with him when you take shots at him like this? Or how long he'll stay liquid if he is a big enough idiot to not recognize these errors?