| How does a bookie manage to make money by | | | | to inexperienced baseball bettors and to the |
| accepting wagers on ball at online games ? The | | | | rank-and-file gambling sucker. |
| sports bookie, like the operator of any gambling game, | | | | 2. The 20c/ line is dealt by a fair-sized horse bookie to |
| must obtain a favorable percentage on every bet he | | | | the smalltime, but more experienced, baseball bettors. |
| accepts, no matter which team the player puts his | | | | 3. The l0c/line, called the "dime line," is dealt by the big |
| money on. | | | | time bookies and sports offices to experienced |
| Like the operators of most gambling establishments at | | | | big-money bettors. |
| free kid games , the sports bookie or office takes as | | | | 4. The 5c/ line, the "nickel line," is dealt by sports offices |
| great a favorable percentage as his betting clientele | | | | and big time bookies as an inducement to rival bookies |
| will permit. If his customers are inexperienced or in the | | | | to accept their layoff bets. |
| sucker class, his percentage is high. If they are smart | | | | The above is customary practice but there are |
| baseball bettors he has to content himself with a much | | | | occasional exceptions. A big bettor, for instance, may |
| smaller margin of profit. The odds are 50 to 1 that you | | | | ask for a price line that will give him a better break in |
| fall in the former category, and here''s how you can tell. | | | | online games and the bookie may give it to him |
| The bookies deal four different price lines, depending | | | | because he wants to continue to get the customer''s |
| on the type of clientele they have, as follows: | | | | business. |
| 1. The 40c/ line. This is dealt by the curbstone bookie | | | | |