d_roos6 said:
almost 100% of the public is on VA Tech +19.5. This line is also attracting some sharp money too.
1. How do you know either of those to be true? There is no way you can look at a service that gives you percentage bets on each game and make the determination who the money is coming from. No way.
2. why would you base your bet on who is betting what? I will never understand that betting philosophy. The best of the best (i.e. - "sharps") admittedly hit about 55%-58%. Why would your betting strategy be to try and guess what they are betting? If you are only wrong occassionally guessing what they are betting, then you lower your percentage and are a losing bettor, over the long haul.
I see people on different forums all the time trying this betting strategy (talkign about reading the bet %s, etc), thinking it is easy money. I have yet, in all my years of gambling, to find anyone who can win over the long haul doing it that way. If people could beat the book this way, the books wouldn't allow the information to be public.