Boston Marathon Betting Odds are Here - and Kipchoge is EVEN Money

Okay fully locked and loaded now.

$60 on kipchoge at even odds

$90 on the under 2:08 at -150 odds

and an additional $50 on kipchoge at -130 odds (they are adjusting them).

Only put $100 in the site, got some weird bonus for an extra $100.

It’s on bodog in Canada. No longer even odds.

Suppose you had $1000 +1000 on Edna Kiplagat to win the 2021 Boston Marathon. What recourse do you have when Kipyokei is suspended and Kiplagat is upgraded to the winner? Are there policies in place for other individual sports like MMA?

I don't think you have any recourse, its just too slippery of a slope to police. Medina Spirit's Kentucky Derby win was vacated after a failed drug test, but the results are final in the eyes of the sportsbook.

Well since it’s only available on off shore sites that are illegal in the USA you have no recourse

why would you expect to have recourse when you are breaking the law. One of the motivations for states regulating gambling is some form of consumer protection..although a long long way behind their interests in tax revenue

I post on here occasionally but people like you always seem to think you know more than those of us in the business. I own two Sportsbook licenses

Billy Walters became a multi billionaire through beating Sportsbooks. The limits aren’t low. Mattress Mac bets aren’t exactly low although it’s a lot of work to get as much money down as he does

listen to past episodes of gambling with an edge if you want to hear how professional sports bettors do it

the host of house of run Jason Halpin has been in Sportsbooks for years. Recently moved to the supplier side of the business

I'll take the -100/+550 on Evans Chebet.

The line started at even, was updated to -115 by ~9am eastern, then it wasn't available for a brief while, then it came back as -200 at ~10am eastern. I'm unfamiliar with how these things work but it would be interesting to know the actual reasons for the changes - placed bets, new intel, something else?

I put $200 on the GOAT for my chance to win $100. Probably the closest I'll get to making money from running

It's a hypothetical -- there's a very good chance people will be able to bet legally in the US on the 2024 Boston Marathon.

most likely the majority of the bets came in on kipchoge, so they kept moving his odds. he's up to -400 now, which is ridiculous to me. would love to be on the other side of that bet.

as others have pointed out, this is a super small market with ~$100 max bets, so it's more like marketing/customer acquisition for bovada than them actually trying their hardest to create accurate lines. They probably just move the market a bit depending how the money is coming in.

it is an illegal offshore book (for them, not you. it's legal to use bovada but they are breaking the law by offering you services in the usa) so it doesn't matter if you lie about address. a lot of people use crypto so you don't have to deal with offshore gambling transactions through your bank, which can get you flagged as us banks don't want the headache of facilitating those tx.

Any legitimate US sports book a VPN doesn't work. They geofence. The first sports book I was negotiating my license with I asked the operator about why VPN's work for say accessing the BBC. They said anyone can stop you using a VPN but most companies don't really care enough to pay a geofencing service. For instance, if you try to use a VPN to say you are in NJ to bet on a NJ site and you aren't, it won't work.

Kipchoge is now -500 lol. anyone that got him -150 or better should be very happy...that is incredible value. whether he wins or loses it is almost impossible to realize that kind of CLV in the major sports. actually going to sign up on bovada now because no US books offer T&F lines (besides maybe the olympics).

That is exactly what it is. The betting line at the start was just a give me bet to lure customers. Paying $100 to get a new better is low cost for them. If Kipchoge doesn't win, it's even a greater boon for them.

This is true. All US legal betting sites are up the wall in technology to track where your bet is coming from because the chance of them being wrong is too costly.

80 to 1 on Des Linden is a short price. A small $10 wager would be worth it at 250 to 1 to make things interesting.

That's $10 wasted. Just give it to someone in need. Unless the top 15 women get food poisoning, she's not winning.

Now can bet on women's race as well on Bovada.