Pistons finish road trip against Nets

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02/01/2012 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Pistons hope to solve their road issues tonight in the finale of a four-game trek against the New Jersey Nets.

Detroit is 0-3 so far on the road trip and has lost six straight as the guest, including Tuesdays 113-86 setback at New York in which Knicks star Carmelo Anthony returned to the lineup to score 25 points.

Jonas Jerebko scored 15 points, while Greg Monroe had 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Pistons, losers of six straight overall and 10 of 11 games. Detroit is just 1-11 as the guest.

"We have little chance to win when teams are shooting 50 percent from the field or 60 percent from the field," said Pistons coach Lawrence Frank.

Frank's club will play its third straight game tonight in Newark, NJ. Frank, of course, coached the Nets from 2004 until early on in the 2009-10 season.

The Nets have dropped back-to-back games since a season-high two-game winning streak and hope to improve on their 2-6 home record tonight.

In Tuesday's 106-99 loss to the Indiana Pacers, Deron Williams netted a game- high 34 points and Anthony Morrow added a season- high 28 points for New Jersey.

"You don't want to get down 18 points and have to try to fight back, especially against a good team like this. That's hard to do," Williams told the team's website. "We battled back and cut it to three, I think, but just weren't able to get over that hump."

Nets guard MarShon Brooks did not play due to a broken right little toe and forward Mehmet Okur missed his third straight game because of a sore lower back. DeShawn Stevenson is also hampered with a knee issue.

New Jersey and Detroit split four meetings a season ago, while the Pistons have won 13 of the past 18 matchups in this series. However, Detroit has lost three straight and five of its last six at New Jersey.

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As cup crazy fans prepare to place their bets, one online sportsbook ,MySportsbook.com, is offering hockey betting lines on the 2007/2007 Stanley Cup , who will bring it home this upcoming season.

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Betting Sports

The most popular sports to bet on are NFL and college football along with NBA and NCAA basketball. There are multiple betting opportunities within those sports, beginning with the basic wager on a game’s outcome (also called betting the side). College Football Point spreads are used in both football and basketball in an attempt to even the attractiveness of each team in a match-up. ( See our article detailing how and why point spreads are made)

But you could also simply bet on the money line, or straight-up winner of the game. Oddsmakers use the money line so that more money must be risked on the favorite or expected winner and less money on the underdog to balance the action on both sides. While money line gambling is an attractive option for football and basketball bettors who only care about picking a winner, it is the primary option for those bettors who enjoy wagering on MLB baseball and individual sports like boxing, tennis, golf and racing events such as NASCAR. ( More details on playing the Money Line)

Points (or Runs) Scored

Another bet across all major team sports including football, basketball, baseball, and hockey involves wagering on the amount of scoring in a game, called an Over/Under total. For example, the Over/Under total on Super Bowl XXXIX was 48, which means a bettor could wager whether there would be more or less than 48 points scored by both teams combined in the game.

The final score of Super Bowl XXXIX was 24-21; the scoring of both teams added up to 45, which means the game went Under . So Under bettors won, and Over bettors lost.

Future Bets

Sports gambling doesn’t end there. Betting sides and totals are the most common wagers available everywhere, but many sportsbooks also offer future bets on big upcoming events like who will win next year’s Super Bowl and what movie will win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

The main advantage of futures is that you can get appealing odds by betting far in advance. For example, with NFL futures you often can get much higher odds on a team by betting before the season even starts. A NFL future bet on a team to win the Super Bowl odds might be 20/1 in the preseason; but by midseason, their odds might decrease to 10/1 if they turn out to be legitimate championship contenders.

Proposition Bets (or Prop Bets)

Proposition bets , also known as prop bets, focus upon the more exotic aspects of a game and are generally reserved for events that are widely televised. Prop bets are extremely popular when it comes to wagering on the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. The Imperial Palace Casino’s sportsbook is well-known for the enormous number of prop bets offered. For example, you can bet on:

Types of Bets

Straight Bet

Involves one individual wager, whether it be on your team to cover the point spread, to win the game straight-up on the money line, or to go over/under the total.

Sports Betting Parlays

A parlay is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers and is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. The benefit of the parlay bet is much better odds than placing each individual bet separately since the difficulty of hitting it is much higher.

Standard payoffs on a two-team parlay are 13/5; while a three-teamer pays 6/1; and a four-teamer 10/1.

Parlay cards are also fairly common in sportsbooks and popular with bettors, as they are released early in the week with set odds that do not change in return for a slightly lower payoff.

Round Robin Betting

Adventurous bettors who enjoy betting parlays sometimes put together a series of parlays called a Round Robin . A three-team Round Robin consists of one three-team parlay and three two-team parlays. For example, Joe likes teams A,B,C – with a Round Robin he has a three-teamer with ABC, and two-teamers with AB, AC, and BC.

Betting Teasers

Similar to a parlay, a teaser bet is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers, but is different in that the point spread is adjusted to your advantage on each individual wager. In exchange for the points, you get less of a return on your bet compared to a parlay. For example, a 6-point teaser would move the line on a 7-point favorite from -7 to -1, meaning the team would have to cover 6 less points. Each of the individual wagers must win or the bet is a loss.

These are the main types of sports bets available today. But as sports betting continues to grow, sportsbooks will continue to develop new and creative ways to bet. We’ll continue to track these changes to the sports gambling landscape, so check back often and we’ll tell you all about it!

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