For certain sports, like college football and basketball where some games have a certain winner, big money moneyline parlays can make a lot of money.

For instance week 1 I'm parlaying Central Fla, TCU, Ohio St., Mich St, Bama, Auburn and Tennessee most likely. right now a $400 bet pays off $1,050.

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Posted by accnodefense

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Posted on 8/27/15 at 4:44 pm to JG77056

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For certain sports, like college football and basketball where some games have a certain winner, big money moneyline parlays can make a lot of money.

Even then I have never had success with them.

I put a big sum of money on an 8 team ML parlay of big favorites back in 2012 that would have paid out 1.8:1 and lost. The first 7 teams won and the last game was Georgia Tech at home vs. Miami. Georgia Tech kick returner knees the ball in the end zone and had his toe over the line so a safety. Then they blow 14 point lead in the 4th quarter. They went for in on 4th and inches in Miami territory to ice the game and got stuffed. Miami marches downfield and scores a TD with 20 seconds left to force OT. Same shite happens in OT - Georgia Tech stuffed on 4th and inches and Miami wins and ruins my money line parlay.

I view parlays and teasers as cheap ways to get action on more games without having to spend a lot of money. Put 15 teams on a bunch of $1 or $2 teaser/parlay cards and you can have action on every game. Problem is that one team will lose in the 11:00am kick games and all your teaser cards are garbage. To get by that just do a teaser card for different time slots.

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Posted on 8/27/15 at 4:51 pm to JG77056

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For instance week 1 I'm parlaying Central Fla, TCU, Ohio St., Mich St, Bama, Auburn and Tennessee most likely. right now a $400 bet pays off $1,050.

I agree it looks like a good play that will probably hit. But in my experience there is always that team that ends up losing that you don't see coming. That Georgia Tech parlay I talked about wasn't the only one I lost. I lost 4 in a row back in 2012 and haven't done a ML parlay since. There is always that team that loses and ruins it.

The week before that Georgia Tech loss it was Michigan State getting beat by Notre Dame at home, as 13 point favorites.

And the week before that it was both Wisconsin losing at home to Oregon State and a UNLV team that pushed Minnesota to 3OT losing at home to Northern Arizona AND Colorado losing at home to CSU Sacramento. 5-3 on a money line parlay