Week 6 Recap Plus A Bink-O-Rooski On MNF

As I said in my look ahead post on Saturday, this was a fantastic week for Wongs. Lots of Wongable stand alone games. Let's see how we did.

I covered the MNF and TNF games last post, so that brings us up to Sunday. First Wong of the day was HOU +8.5 in the 9:30 slot. I didn't get much down on this but I did add a couple legs right before kickoff with a small JAX ML hedge. HOU won outright which was fine. Not ideal but pretty much break even.

The 1:00 slate was quite dramatic, again. The big game of this slate was ATL/CHI. I jumped on ATL early, getting them at +3.5 and then teasing them from +1.5 to +7.5. It closed at a pick em so I crushed the market on this bet. I had a lot of my buy back at CHI -2.5 and ML, so I was really looking for the middle here. CHI ended up winning by eight. Half point away from at least my teaser cashing. A great bet but a bad result.

PIT/TB ended absolutely perfectly with PIT winning by 7. I had TB teased to +8.5 and PIT -2.5 and even some -6.5, so that was good.

Same with JETS at PATS with the PATS Winning by exactly 7. I cashed PATS -1.5 and my NYJ +7.5 middles. The PATS missed an XP this game, too, which went my way this time.

The big game of the day, LAC at KC, was somewhat anti-climatic. This was the only Wongable game in the afternoon slate, so just about every single teaser I had had this game in it. All I really needed was KC to win by 3 or more with a medium sized +7.5 and +3.5 middle to go with it. The only thing that couldn't happen was KC winning by 1 or 2. When they missed their XP to go up 9-3, I started panic live-hedging on LAC. KC ended up blowing them out so it was a good result, but I ate into some of my profits live-betting.

(Side note: this -2.5 hedged with opponent ML has become a definite leak of mine lately. The two near misses this year scarred me. I think I patched this leak going forward though, which we'll see later).

So a big chunk of my teasers all got through to the SNF game, DAL at GB. I managed to snipe DAL +7.5 on my PPH as the last or second leg of most of my teasers. With the high total plus DAL seemingly always losing in prime time games, I didn't go for much of a middle here at all. GB won outright which wasn't ideal but didn't cost me anything.

So the week on its own was pretty blah. I lost about 5 units total.

However, I still had a big chunk of teasers left with SF -1.5 on MNF as the last leg. I hedged with WASH ML (just a little bit), WASH +1.5 (which I'm able to do profitably now on NoVig), WASH +3.5, +6.5 and +7.5. And wouldn't you know it, it landed near perfect with SF winning by 6. (I'm starting to get the +6.5 as a hedge more often now than in years past. Looking at my push chart, I realized the 6 is more of an important point that I realized).

The fact that it was the last leg in all my teasers meant it was for quite a big amount. I had about 20 units locked up no matter what, but with my +7.5 and +6.5 middles hitting, it made it so I made over 40 units last night. A 3 point win would have been perfect but I certainly cannot complain. 

All in all, a great week. It's sort of like I grinded all week to give myself that position last night, and I finally half-binked one of these big MNF middles. 

Looking ahead, right now I see TEN as a perfect leg to jump on early. They're +1.5 at home against CLE with a total in the 30's. Teasers rarely get better than that. Right now I have them at +7.5 and KC +8.5 as the only two available legs. MIN is worth keeping an eye on if it gets to the 7, OR if the IND ML gets better.

That's about it for me today. We keep chugging right along here, having a really good start to the season.

Talk later, bye for now!