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Welcome to a playoff edition of One-Play Payday. If you aren’t familiar with “One-Play Payday”, we provide you with one play, whether it be a spread, total or moneyline, that stands out as a rock-solid play on Tipico Sportsbook. We have a juicy two-game NBA betting slate on tap, here are today’s games and odds […]

Below are odds from my model for this week’s golf event, the Palmetto Championship. You can use these to compare to a bookmaker’s odds straight up, or you could use them in your own model to make adjustments.  These odds are meant to be a tool for you to use how you best see fit. Various […]

This week’s PGA tournament preview is for the new, “Palmetto Championship,” which will be taking place at Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, South Carolina. This new event is filling in for the RBC Canadian Open, which had to be canceled due to the pandemic. The course is new to the circuit, and new in general, having […]

The NBA Playoffs roll on tonight with two highly anticipated games. The first is a Game 2 between the Bucks and Nets, the two shortest-priced teams to win the Eastern Conference. The second is the beginning of the Round 2 series between the Nuggets and the Suns. Denver dispatched the Trail Blazers and the Suns are […]

The Tennessee Titans traded “at least” a second-round pick for Atlanta Falcons WR Julio Jones Sunday, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.  Fantasy analysis: It was a popular landing spot for weeks and now it is official. Julio Jones joins A.J. Brown to form the top receiving duo in the NFL, and it makes this passing […]

We have a good day of NBA basketball, but the games are starting early today. The first one is at 1 p.m. EST and features the Atlanta Hawks visiting the Philadelphia 76ers. The Hawks dispatched the Knicks in Round 1, and Philly took care of the Washington Wizards. The other game is a do-or-die Game 7 to […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 28: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai! After a rare off-week for the UFC last weekend, fights are back in the Apex this Saturday with a 14 fight card headlined by a main event scrap between two top ten contenders at heavyweight. While the main event is slightly underwhelming, it’s […]

The NBA playoffs are moving closer to the start of the second round. Seven of the eight first-round series are now over. As mentioned in our previous NBA futures article, the Lakers chalk was a bad play. Thursday night, the Lakers and Trail Blazers joined the other five teams already eliminated from the playoffs, leaving only […]

We are getting down to the elimination stage of the first round of the NBA playoffs. All four series in the East are done. In the West, only the Jazz have moved on already, with the other three series all standing at 3-2. Two of those games happen Thursday night, so it should be an […]

When the pandemic hit, sports went into hibernation. The first one to emerge from the slumber was MMA. After MMA, the next to return to the scene was golf. The betting handle on the PGA Tour was massive upon its return. It was a sharp move by the PGA, because many gamblers were itching for […]

The world of golf has a lot to offer us this week on the three major tours I look at: PGA Tour, European Tour, and the LPGA. PGA Tour: The Memorial Tournament European Tour: European Open (54-hole event) LPGA: Women’s U.S. Open This week, I’m going to highlight a couple of bets I like in […]

The PGA Tour will make its way to the Midwest for The Memorial Tournament, which will take place at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, OH. The tournament has been played here since 1976 and has seen a myriad of finishing scores, course conditions, and last year it hosted back-to-back events. The course went under renovation immediately […]

Welcome to an NBA playoff edition of One-Play Payday. If you aren’t familiar with the “One-Play Payday,” we provide you with one play, whether it be a spread, total or moneyline, that stands out as a rock-solid play on Tipico Sportsbook. We have a juicy three-game NBA betting slate on tap, here are Tuesday’s games […]

Tuesday is a robust slate for MLB games. All the local teams play in markets where Tipico Sportsbook is active. This includes the Mets, Yankees, Phillies and Rockies. We have some really solid pitching matchups in a few of these contests, especially the Phillies/Reds and Yankees/Rays games. Those are the two we will be digging […]

This week’s PGA Tour event is the Memorial Tournament, played and Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The Memorial is hosted by Jack Nicklaus and is an invitational event, which means it will be another field of only around 120 golfers, with limitations on who is invited to join.  Muirfield Village is not a […]

Below are odds from my model for this week’s golf event, the Memorial Tournament. You can use these to compare to a bookmaker’s odds straight up, or you could use them in your own model to make adjustments.  These odds are meant to be a tool for you to use how you best see fit. […]

We only have two games on this Memorial Day holiday to talk about. One is an elimination game with the Philadelphia 76ers having a chance to close out the Wizards today. The second is a series between the Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies that has taken a turn after Memphis won game 1. The Jazz […]

Memorial Day Weekend, MLB games starting every hour at 1:00 p.m. E.T., and a nearly full slate to choose from, can it get any better than this? Let’s take a deeper look into the holiday board and see where the best value can be found today. New York Mets @ Arizona Diamondbacks New York and […]

Saturday marked the last of the Game 3 action in the opening round of the NBA playoffs. It also marked the first Game 4 options and our first team eliminated from the playoffs. We have another weekend of staggered start games Sunday with the first two going off at 1 and 3:30 p.m. ET, followed […]

Earlier this week, we did an article on what to look for when betting MLB Futures at Tipico Sportsbook. Today we are going to put some of that newfound knowledge to work looking for value in the futures market. We will discuss the potential for value in one major team market as well as a few individual […]

Thursday marks the first day of Game 3’s going down in the NBA playoffs. We will move some of these games to the lower seeded teams home floor today. The first game between Milwaukee and Miami is the only game where one team won both of its home games. The other two series are tied […]

Betting in the futures market for MLB is unlike any other major sport. We have award winners in the NBA and NFL, but MLB has always been the toughest league to predict the award winners in. Baseball is a grind. In normal seasons, you have 162 games spread over six months from April to September. […]

MLB’s best bets are back in action for Wednesday with a full 15-game slate. We’ll have action at the start of nearly every hour to start the day, with games scheduled for 1:10 p.m. ET, 2.10, 3:37 and 4:07. With every team in action, value is sure to be found somewhere, so let’s jump in […]

As it has for every year since 1941, the Charles Schwab Challenge is being held at Colonial Country Club once again this year. The course is a Par 70 that plays just over 7,200 yards. Colonial has smaller than average green sizes, 84 bunkers and four water hazards. It’s worth noting that we have a smaller […]

Tuesday is a busy day for MLB action on Tipico Sportsbook — the local teams where Tipico operates are all in action. The Yankees are at home against the Blue Jays, the Phillies are in Miami to play the Marlins, and the Mets are at home against the Rockies. The big news is that deGoat […]

Below are odds from my model for this week’s golf event, the Charles Schwab Challenge. You can use these to compare to a bookmaker’s odds straight up, or you could use them in your own model to make adjustments. These odds are meant to be a tool for you to use how you best see […]

While it’s going to be hard to follow up last week’s historic PGA Championship, we’re back this week for the Charles Schwab Challenge. This was the first event off of the COVID-19 break that the PGA Tour took last season, where Daniel Berger beat Collin Morikawa in a playoff. We’re dealing with a completely different […]

Welcome to a playoff edition of One-Play Payday. If you aren’t familiar with “One-Play Payday”, we provide you with one play, whether it be a spread, total or moneyline, that stands out as a rock-solid play on Tipico Sportsbook. We have two juicy Game 2s on tap for the first round of the NBA Playoffs.  […]

The first games of the eight NBA playoff series took place over the weekend. Starting today, we get a couple of second games starting up between Nos. 3 and 6 seeds in each conference. The early one is the east between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Miami Heat. The nightcap is game two of the […]

We have our second straight light Monday with only an eight-game MLB slate scheduled for us. The afternoon lull will be avoided thanks to the final game of the Tampa Bay and Toronto series starting at 1:07 p.m. E.T and the night will end on the earlier side with the latest game scheduled for 9:40 […]

The NBA play-in appetizer is over. It’s time to move on to the main course. We had the first half of opening-round games Saturday, and the other four series start Sunday. Let’s go through them one by one, talking about series prices, Game 1 lines, and totals as we do.  Washington Wizards @ Philadelphia 76ers […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 27: Font vs. Garbrandt. Following a wild night of fights in Houston last weekend for UFC 262, the UFC returns to the Apex in Vegas for another Fight Night Saturday afternoon. Rob Font and Cody Garbrandt are the men on the marquee in the main event at […]