I love these gambling threads. I don't think we have had early Sept. games at home at 1pm for quite a while. If I was back in Vegas I would do a two team 7 point teaser with Miami getting 11.5 then take Minnesota +11. Both picks have to win, push loses, and you have to lay -130 to win 100. Seems like easy money to me but they always do.
That is wrong, by Las Vegas rules. A push in a two-team teaser is No Action,. i.e. a refund. The outcome of the second game does not matter. Once there is a push the bet is refunded.
They do it that way to balance the situation, since bettors are annoyed that a push with a win does not earn some type of minimal profit. To offset that, a push with a loss also became a refund.
Don't make the mistake so many people make, and fail to understand the occasionally varying differences in rules between Nevada sportsbooks and offshore outfits. The offshore joints, more often than not, treat a teaser push as a loss. There are some exceptions. For example, 5Dimes allows the bettor to set up his account for "Las Vegas Rules" in regard to teasers.
See this link and scroll down for those details:
http://www.5dimes.eu/sb_wagertypes.html
There's no telling how much money has been mistakenly thrown away by bettors who don't understand that teaser rule. I've found many tickets myself.
The reason I know the rule is that I was incredibly fortunate in my first basketball teaser bet ever. It was a stupid wager in late 1984. I was new to town and didn't know what the heck I was doing in basketball betting. I was bored and instead of waiting for my football bets the next day I tried to steal a cheap $500 on a 5 point basketball teaser. The Celtics were playing at Indiana, and 8 point favorites. How could they lose to the lowly Pacers? I teased it down to -3. Boston was never in the game. My second leg was San Diego State at New Mexico. I teased up from +4 to +9. At least I knew the rule, that I needed San Diego State to lose by exactly 9 to salvage the $600 (-120 odds so $600 to win $500). New Mexico buried the Aztecs from the outset. It was at least a 25 point margin. Keep in mind this was prior to the 3 point shot. I didn't give up completely but it looked bleak. I continued to call the Las Vegas score phone number as the game tightened. Then I got a late score, with San Diego State down by only 5. Those idiots, they cut it too much. Within seconds the score phone provided the final. Nine point game! I believe it was 84-75. What a gift.
The next day I walked into Gary Austin's sportsbook, where I had made the wager. These were still the days of hand graded tickets. My ticket was not in the pile at the cashier to be paid. It has been discarded as a loss, since the guy grading it overnight looked at the first game on the teaser, the Celtic result. But since I had my copy the manager took the ticket and saw the San Diego State result. He graded the ticket as a push and looked quite annoyed while refunding my 600 bucks.
