
As Vinny told Judge Chamberlain Haller in My Cousin Vinny and the Judge later uttered back: “win some, lose some.” Dare I say, it could even mean the book lost small. When the book tells you they broke even, it usually means the book won small. One of those weeks where the book lost some decisions yes, but due to either outstanding bookmaking or sheer luck, the book came out ahead.
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Not on the level of “doing ok” and certainly not “a good week” but still on the plus side. Or “We won a ham sandwich.” Or “We won a peanut.” Whatever the food reference, it means the book won. Maybe a couple wiseguys won or a big house player made a big play to get the book off of a game, but it’s a nice week overall for the book. Not as good as having a good week, but still a solid winner. Books would love to have weeks like this every week, but then nobody would have any money to bet. More ‘dogs covered, and some even won outright. The majority of decisions went the book’s way. For those of you who don’t know, I can help you read “between the lines…” “We had a good week.” Now, we have fancy titles like senior oddsmakers, risk analysts and, the European influenced favorite, “trader.” By any name, the talk is the same. For years, bookies have been talking about this exact thing at meet ups and drop offs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Speaking of answers, the books have them as well. Except the know-it-all who was on the book side in most of the games of course. People don’t need a reminder that they lost. And after the games are played, how did the book do? Whether it’s “good” info or not is a whole other story.įor so many of us in the business, these discussions have been going on for years. Whatever information you seek to find, it’s pretty much out there. Line movement is discussed, analyzed and speculated upon with a fine tooth comb.

Whether it’s the sharp side or the square side is a weekly debate. With the legalization of sportsbooks across the country, there are a lot of things about the business that are being discussed during football season. Various roles, various places, making numbers, taking bets and everything else in between.

If you've already agreed to use a date shift cipher with someone, come up with a clue (like “Washington”) you can say to each other to talk about the number key.Read earlier installments here from the Sportsbook Consigliere sportsbkconsig), who’s been working in sportsbooks for over 20 years.When making your cipher, be sure to decide on the direction you’ll be moving along the alphabet when encoding and decoding (forwards or backwards).For example, if the letter D is in the encoded phrase and has the number 2 underneath it, this means you must move 2 letters forwards or backwards to get the letter from the decoded message.Each number will tell you how many letters over you’ll need to shift to read the original message.For example, if you were to use George Washington's birthday (), you would write it as 2221732.Write out the date as an unbroken string of numbers. It could also be something impersonal and arbitrary, like the birthday of George Washington. This might be something with personal significance, like a birthday or the day you graduated college. Choose a date specific date to use in a date shift cipher.
