Bet You're Wondering What the Big Deal Is

If you make a bet on an NFL contest - let's say you're in Las Vegas on a business trip, and you visit the casino's sports book and put $110 on the New England Patriots to cover the 10 and a half points against the Bills in their season opener - do you think your actions could somehow compromise the result of the game? If enough of you and your drinking buddies put money on the Patriots, will the bookmaker make a quick call to the referee, asking for a phantom holding call or two to keep the Bills in it? Or to a Patriots running back, asking him to fumble at a key moment, allowing the Bills to escape with a mere nine-point loss?

No. A sports book offers multiple odds on every conceivable sporting (and every other kind of) event - from the Super Bowl, the game with the biggest action across the globe, down to the Golden Globes, political contests and Survivor - and even on specific occurrences taking place during those events, from how many yards rushing Edgerrin James will get to how many times the TV cameras will show Jack Nicholson during the Oscars telecast. Sports books can afford to be wrong, because every event is a toss-up, and even when they give you $100 for your winning $110 wager, they keep the $10 vig. They can't lose, and they don't. Sports books have no incentive to manipulate game results.

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