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If you live in or visit Colorado, you should definitely add us to the sports betting apps on your mobile device and compare lines across sportsbooks to get the best odds on every bet. In Colorado, you can fund your account and get started betting on our app from anywhere in the state, no casino visit required.
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Circa Sports Colorado Website
The best free desktop experience for viewing our live odds is on our Colorado website. The Circa Sports Colorado menu doesn't always include everything we offer in Nevada, but it's got all the most popular markets and we're working toward mirroring our Nevada menu completely.
Sportsbook Odds Boards & Betting Sheets
The next best way to get our odds is in our Las Vegas sportsbooks on the odds boards and betting sheets. Many would say this is actually the best way to see our odds since you'll be standing in Las Vegas, in an awesome sportsbook, and in the best sportsbook in the world if you're at our flagship location at Circa Resort & Casino.
The odds boards don't fit our entire menu, but they're real-time. The odds on our betting sheets aren't real-time, but they typically have our complete menu. The betting sheets are also available online in PDF format in our Media Resources Dropbox folder.
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Don Best
Don Best's paid subscription odds services offer our odds alongside those of other sportsbooks for convenient, real-time comparison. This includes daily and weekly games and matchups in many major sports. It does not include odds for any markets with non-standardized betting IDs/rotation numbers, for example NASCAR race odds to win, PGA tournament odds to win, and props. Sportsbooks each define their own rotation numbers for many markets so you'll have to check with each sportsbook to get those odds. Our Nevada app (links above) is the easiest to access real-time source for our complete menu and live odds including non-standardized markets.
ODDS AGGREGATOR WEBSITES
There are many third party websites out there that aim to compile odds data from multiple sportsbooks and offer them side by side for comparison, similar to Don Best. Real-time accuracy of the odds on these sites can vary, and markets with non-standardized rotation numbers are often unavailable, but some sites do have reliable odds data and the side-by-side comparisons can be convenient depending on the market. Here are some of our favorites:
VSiN
Las Vegas Advisor
Vegas Insider
Circa Sports Twitter
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As a fan, you don’t care if your team wins by a point or 100. A win is a win, though that 100-point win would be a little easier on the nerves.
In sports betting, how much a team wins by is usually all that matters.
The most popular way to bet for the two most popular sports, basketball and football, is with the point spread, also known as the “side.” Most baseball, hockey and soccer bets are on the moneyline, which is betting on a team to win straight up with adjusted odds. Football and basketball have moneyline bets available too, but most people will take the point spread.
The concept can be a bit confusing if you’ve never dabbled in sports betting before.
Why bet with the point spread?
The point spread was created to attract more action on a game. When the San Francisco 49ers are expected to blow out the Arizona Cardinals, it’s not enticing to lay $300 to win $100 on a moneyline. But when the 49ers are 11-point favorites and each side is -110 odds? That’s much easier.
In that example, the 49ers are spotting the Cardinals 11 points before the game starts, at least for bettors. The 49ers have to win by 12 or more points to cover the spread. If the Cardinals win or lose by 10 or less, that side wins the bet. If the game lands on 11, like a 21-10 49ers win, it’s a push and all bets are refunded. If you see a -11 that means that team is favored, and +11 means you’re taking the underdog.
Nothing sharpens your math skills better than trying to figure out how big your lead as a bettor is if you have a 22.5-point basketball underdog that is losing 90-72.
The problem with the point spread can be when a team — which really doesn’t care that you bet the favorite at -11 — has a 14-point lead but gives up a meaningless score at the end to win by only seven points. They’re still happy with the win. You, as a bettor, are not.
© Provided by Yahoo! Sports Sportsbooks have large boards that display point spreads for all games that day. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)Point spreads lead to bad beats
The most infamous example of a bad beat with the point spread probably came in the 2004 Final Four at the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Duke was a 2.5-point underdog against UConn. The Huskies rallied late and took a 79-75 lead on a free throw with 3.2 seconds left. The game itself was over; Duke couldn’t score twice in a few seconds. But Duke guard Chris Duhon pulled up for a running 3-pointer just over the half-court line and banked it in at the buzzer. Duke lost 79-78, but bettors who had Duke and 2.5 points won. March Madness is a huge event for bettors, and reports at the time estimated that Duhon’s “meaningless” shot resulted in a $30 or $40 million swing in Nevada. UConn players celebrated at the final buzzer. UConn bettors doubled over in pain. That’s the difference between betting the moneyline and the point spread.
Sports Spreads Lines For Today
Baseball and hockey have point spreads too, the “run line” in baseball and “puck line” in hockey. It’s generally 1.5 with odds adjusting accordingly. Taking a big baseball favorite at -1.5 runs can make the odds more palatable. Of course, betting the New York Yankees at -1.5 to bring down the odds from -190 to -110 isn’t too fun when they win 4-3 and you don’t cash a bet.
Sports Spreads Explained
Betting on the point spread is the most common way to wager on sports. And the first time you take a favorite that wins the game but doesn’t cover the spread, you’ll understand every bettor’s heartbreak.