On the debut episode of The Everything Guide to Sports Betting, Ron Flatter and Josh Appelbaum take you through the basics of parlays and when bettors should utilize this type of bet.
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Josh, I got a little memory game here that's going to illustrate something we'll talk about today. You're ready to play, I'm ready hit me ron right. One banana, one banana, one banana, two elephants, one banana, two elephants, one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my ex. One banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my ex. One banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my X four refrigerators. Was a getting harder on one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my X four refrigerators. One banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my X four refrigerators, five rolls Royces, one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my EX four refrigerators, five rolls Royces, one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my X four refrigerators, five rolls Royces, six Netflix shows, one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings, four rolls Royce, and there you have an illustration of how tough it might be to win Parlay's Welcome to the Everything Guide to Sports Betting podcast. Learn how to be a smarter, better from the experts at Visa in the Sports Betting Network. Now here are your hosts, Ron Flatter and Josh Applebaum. Yes, parlays one of the topics we're talking about today on our show Everything Guide Through Sports Betting on Visa in Josh Applebaum there, Ron Flatter here the memory test. You know, I actually wrote this thing. I had a lot more faith than you, Josh. I took this all the way to thirty and I tripped you up at what six? So did you feel? I can tell you I'm very humbled. I can tell you the Red Sox starting line up, but I didn't know where you're going with that. I I you you got me there. That's my strong suit. So I was a great illustration though, of parlays, which we're gonna talk about. The more rhymes you add, the more numbers you add, the more bets you add, the more risk you assume, and the harder it is to get it right. Parlays are simply this multiple bets tied into one, but you've got to win them all. The more you tie in, the more you win. But we should warn you this. The house the bookmakers, especially in Nevada in Las Vegas, where they've been doing this for decades. Oh, they feast on parlay players. So we'll talk all about that, also about teasers, the pros and cons of both, and we'll even get into those two terms you hear us talk about all the time, sharps and the public, And there's other names for the public we'll get into as well. But let's go ahead and dive into parlay's and how many different ways there are to go about it. And maybe I don't know, does this tie in for you, Josh, to the very discussion of sharps in the public. I think it does, Ron. And you know what's funny to of me is when I first started betting on sports, I loved parlay's. Parlay's what are they? They're basically get rich quick way to uh, you know, bet a little bit of money and hopefully end your night with a lot of money in your pocket. Kind of think of it as maybe a scratch ticket, you know, you can you see a lot of times on an NFL Sunday, you know, recreational betters love and even some sharps here and there, although they tend to avoid it and avoid parlays. Will talk about why, but it's all about kind of the mentality of trying to um, become a millionaire overnight, you know, getting uh, winning more money quickly. And there's a lot of reasons why. Actually you're kind of playing right into the sports books hands overall. But first we got to define Ron, Like you mentioned, what is a parlay. A parlay is. Note this, if you're playing in a shop, in a house, in a casino, you play keino. The more numbers you play in kino, the tougher it is. When you play a slot machine, the more lines you play, the toper it is to get the payoff he has to payoff is bigger. But in that respect, I think you understand the risk where ward and it ties right into the very definition of parlay. Yeah, and Ron, I think with parlays it's all about the psychological risk reward. You feel like you're risking a little bit. I'm only putting ten bucks down, but if I cash my parlay, I can win. You know, the teams I bet on, whether it's two, three, four, whatever the number is, I can make a lot of money if they all win. So um, a lot of new betters really and again this happened to me where I love betting parlays when I was eighteen, nineteen twenty years old, I bet on my my beloved Red Sox, Patriots, Brewin Celtics, my favorite teams. I made all these mistakes that I now have learned over the years to avoid. But basically with the parlay um, what you're trying to do is get a big payout overall. However, you know, the one thing you gotta remember how parlays is that every single leg of the parlay, and we call them you know legs, or the teams involved in the parlay, they all have to win because if any of them lose, you lose the entire parlay. So you know, whether you have a five team parlay and you go four or in one and four of them win, but one loses, you lose that entire parlay. And I think this is important where you know, talking about bankroll management and strategies for you know, you know, I'm a proponent of flat betting overall, where you know, if you have a parlay and you go four and one, you lose the whole thing. But if you had bet those games individually and went four and one, you would have stacked you know, two and a half three units overall. U unit would be you know, um, basically, you're you're how much you're risking on each game, uh, in a consistent manner, and what you're getting back in return. So, Ron, what's your take on Parley's? Did you love Parley's growing up like everybody and then slowly learned that it's kind of what we call penny slaughter a sucker's bet. I'm still learning, Josh, you know. I I hang with Brent Musters, one of the great parlay players of our times. Uh. There are times I will play a modest parlay. I won't play the tan leg parlays or anything like that. I might go, you know, the old two way parlay and we'll get into teasers and a bit, and that's sort of a it's a different animal, a different and the well with maybe the same stripes in some ways. But I did play them quite a bit back in the day, back when I would also play the lottery, And the lottery is much the same thing. You're actually asking for bigger odds to try to get that big payoff. With the chances if you're getting it, there are a lot less And once I learned that one, it's it's like the old example I always use with the lottery, Uh, why don't you go ahead and just say one to three, four, five six, and somebody will tell me what are the odds of that happening? I go exactly the same as any combination and numbers you choose exactly the same, so that it makes that illustration. And I think parley's to a great degree of the same way. One of the things that is tempting with parlay's is you'll see heavy favorites, favorites that might be minus three hundred minus three fifty minus four hundred, where they seem like a sure thing to win the game, such a short thing that if you bet on them individually, that you to bet four hundred dollars just to make that extra hundred. Why do that when you can go into a parlay, take all those short things, put them all together and get a much better price. But a funny thing happens on the way back to the window, one of those sure things ain't a sure thing, and he ends up losing the game. And it doesn't take much to do that. So I think that illustrates what a parlay is, and why, yes, I tend to touch those with ten foot poles yeah, I think ron you know, a couple of things just to you know, piggyback on that number. One, when you're betting parlays, in theory, you're parlaying because you're very confident in multiple teams. So if you really love the Bucks minus three this weekend, you love the Jets getting seven points instead of betting them individually, you know, and maybe you're laying minus one ten juice on both, you could parlay them, you know, tie them into the same bet if they both cover. You know, roughly a two team parlay in the NFL at minus one ten odds is going to pay out about plus two fifty in terms of odds overall, So your risk a hundred both ever, you'll get two fifty back. It sounds like a great deal overall. But the thing with parlaying is the more um basically, the more legs of a partley you add on, the more risk you assume. And you know, you can look at a three team parlay where it pays out on minus one ten juice plus six hundred, a four team er plus eleven hundred a five team or plus twenty two hundred. You really get sucked into these big payouts and uh oftentimes again, someone told me this a long time and it has stayed with me, and I'm so glad I learned it somewhat earlier, even though I had to lose a lot of bets to learn it. But uh, there's no such thing as a lock. There's no such thing as a guarantee. Don't ever believe anyone who tells you this team is a lock. This team is a guarantee. There's no such thing when it comes to sports betting. Um. And as a result, you know, you'll see a lot of times new betters they'll, like you mentioned, Ron, just parlay a ton of big money line favorites saying, you know, this team is a ten point favorite, then I'm gonna parlay them on the money line because maybe they'll win by nine and not cover. But they have to win the game. Their guaranteed to win the game. Um. However, you gotta remember, upsets happen, and this is why the sports books makes so much money. So um to me kind of just you know, the other thing I learned about parlays Ron is a lot of sports books really promote them, especially on social media, and you always gotta ask yourself, you know, why so I look at you know, on on NFL Sunday, and yeah, this is this is this is a great thing because it really made it, you know, put it into perspective for me. I see different sports books tweet out you know, a screenshot of a ticket where check out this you know, uh, John Smith of Georgia, he cashed the fourteen team parlay. He turned two hundred dollars into a hundred thousand dollars, or you know, check out this person who cashed this twelve team or turned five bucks into you know, ten thousand. Why are the oddsmakers promoting this? Why are they putting it out there? You would think if they're taking a big hit on these parlays, they'd want to keep them quiet. They wouldn't want people to know that, Um, it's a good way to make money, So why do they do that? Again? If it looks too good to be true, it almost always is. And it's oftentimes that it seems like you're gonna you have a four team parlay, you always win three. It's the last one you always lose. But Ron, when I was researching my book, this put it in a perspective for me. The whole percentage um, Ron, what is the whole percentage? Pop quiz right, The whole percentage is what is the profit for the house. That's what they make off the handle. The handle is the total amount bat the hold is the amount of money that the house holds. So you take the total handle every dollar bet we or lose, what does the house keep? That's where you base the hold percentage. You're exactly right, Ron, And why is the whole percentage important? Because um, this really really, uh really you know, illuminates why parley's are um kind of a not a smart bet overall. Again, you can pick and choose specific scenarios where maybe you find value, but parleys in general provide a huge hold percentage for the house for the sports books. That's why I kind of consider them the penny slot of sports betting. So when I was researching my book The Everything Kind of Sports Betting, I I got deep into Ron. If you ever board check out the u n l V Center for Gaming Research study that from to God's Ears. I actually was just now looking that up on my phone and it was about to quote numbers that you probably have in a much better position and greater context than I do. See this is the case of the teacher being one page behind the student. Oh no, we were on the same page here, Ron, because this really blew me away. You know, I was looking at parlays and I was looking at the numbers that the Nevada sports books have to UM, you know, they have to uh show them to UM, the Gaming Commission. So they report the numbers, their handle, their their house, the whole percentage, how much money they made, you know, sport by sport, that types, whatever it may be. But this will blow you away. Uh. From nineteen eighty two to two thousand and nineteen, the Nevada sports books had a average hold percentage of around thirty on parlays in the major sports. Now, without context, that doesn't really mean much. But when you look at regular individual bets individual sports, whether it's you know, baseball, football, basketball, UM, the average hole percentages around five. So what does that mean. It means that basically the books are making a killing off of parlays. They're keeping thirty cents on every dollar of a parley bet. They're only keeping five cents on every dollar of a regular individual NFL bet. So this is why sports books promote parlays on social media That's why parlays are considered a sucker bet, a penny slot, because the book is just they're operating with such a huge edge that it really gives them the advantage. And the better is that a huge disadvantage overall. Um, So again, you know, I think with parlays kind of the name of the game is, um, don't make them your only bet type. Don't make them your number one bet type. If you want to place a parley bet here and there, UM all the power to you. I hope that you win, but just know that you're at such a disadvantage and the books have such an advantage over you as a better when it comes to parlays. So the house makes a killing off parlay's, the better does not. So just take that with you longer gambling journey. Know that that is kind of against you your swimming upstream when it comes to winning on parlays. One of the recurring themes in this series, the everything guy to sports betting on vc AND is jargon. And we talk about sharps and the public. When we talk about sharps and the pros and the wise guys and even we get to the bigger versions of those, the whales. Those are the professional betters. They're the ones when we are looking at facts and figures on sports betting that they may make fewer bets, but they pour more money into them. Sometimes we will talk about betting favoring a particular team based on the dollars bet. Those generally are sharp dollars from the professionals. Otherwise we might say more tickets were written, more actual bets were made on a team that tends to follow the up like the average Joe's. The casual betters, the recreational betters, the weekend warriors, the squares. They're the ones who bet less, but they may end up making more actual bets. So that's why will differentiate between the two. Josh is you're applying that knowledge into bets because when we look at those numbers as they're expressed, and those reports come out all the time, they may be too much for the beginning gambler to handle. But you start to follow that a little bit, and you hear us on visa in or wherever you might be consuming you're gambling news talking about, well, the squares are with this team, but the sharps are with another that includes parlays. Does it not. It definitely does. And uh, you know, I think Ron, this is another important distinction overall, because again you want to know not only the rules of the road when you're betting, the betting fundamentals. But again, the jargon and kind of knowing difference between what we call sharps and squares and squares is kind of a you know, has a bad connotation. It sounds like you're kind of making fun of someone or belittling them. Um, I shouldn't have said it. Should not have said that, you know, And it's a self deprecation if you will. No, but that Ron, You're right, No, those are kind of the terms you'll hear a lot overall. But again, same thing with you know, what we call square better would be an average joe, a casual better, recreational better, the type of better who bets for fun, love sports, bets for entertainment, loves to bet when they get home from work. It's kind of been escape from real life. They can bet on a game and kind of, um, you know, kind of just have fun overall. But the big distinction to mean with the public, and you gotta remember the public is making up the vast majority of the market. I would venture to say the public is percent of the overall market. Like true, sharps are very very unique, and they're they're a small minority, um of the overall betters in general. But Um, when you're thinking about the public they're betting, the big thing to me is they're betting based on gut instinct. They're betting based on biased They're betting based on favoritism. They're betting their favorite teams, their local teams. They're betting games based on one lost records. Give me the favorite with the better record, give me Um, the Lakers just because they have Lebron James. They don't really look at a lot of you know, market factors, they don't spend a lot of time handicapping games. They're gonna bet on big name teams, popular teams. They're gonna be very attracted to favorites and overs in general. Um, they're typically gonna bet small amounts on games, and they're really gonna bet with their heart, not their head. And that's the worst thing you can do, because, um, you want to bet with your head not your heart. The opposite side overall, but more often than not, the public loses, um, And really that's why I'm a contrarian veteran. I don't know if you knew that, but um, I like to yeah, yeah down the road, which it's a badge of honor at contrarian. It's tough being a contrarian sometimes, but it's it's kind of the long term way to uh. I think make a smart bet in general. It's interesting too contrariums at the polls in November and make a big difference in elections. Oh wait a minute, I seem to be confusing things just a little bit here before we throw water completely on parlays. Let's say I'm a stubborn guy and I want to bet parlays. What advice would you give for those who must have action on part plays? Well, I think in terms of betting parlays, I would look at it as you know, again, avoid them if you can. But if you want to make a parlay bet, to me, it's always about getting the best number. If you see a situation where maybe you set your own power ratings, and power ratings are key, and again, you know, I would recommend everyone try to set their own power ratings. We have some great info at Visa dot com to kind of get you started. But um, if you have what you consider an edge where there maybe there's two different teams where, um, you know you have the Celtics based on your power ratings as a five point favorite, the books are listing them minus three boom. To me, that would be an edge. And if you can identify multiple teams where you have an edge and you can get a good number on both, you can beat the closing line, which means basically you're paying a cheaper price than what the line closed at. You basically beat the market overall. Then those are situations where, um, if you have an edge on multiple games and okay, you can place that parlay bet. Um. To me, the other thing is, you know you do see oftentimes you know basically a parley will cash a huge bet overall. But you gotta ask yourself, Ron, if this guy finally want to parlay, he want a thousand dollars on a ten dollar bet, how many ten dollar bets did he make until he won that bet? He or she so? To me, it's kind of that once in a blue moon where you're just you're chasing that big win, Whereas if you had kind of limited those parlays placed those more individual bets and a little more disciplined with your bank roll. Um, you wouldn't have had that huge cash win that one time payment, but you could have stacked a little a little more money along the way. So again I'm of the opinion to avoid parlays. I think again, if you can bet, be disciplined, and again, sports betting is all about discipline. That's really the difference between pros and recreational betters in my opinion is that if a recreational better season money a football game, they're gonna bet it because they need the action. Whereas if a pro better season one in a football game, they crunch their numbers, they look at the matchup, they don't see any value. Um, they're gonna lay off. And that's another distinction overall. But again, the power to lay off of parley, avoid a parlay, to me, in the end, that's going to benefit you more than it's gonna hurt you. Yeah. And by the way, parlays bookmakers will tell you a lot of parlays are tied into that Monday night football game. It's your last chance to try to get something done before you have to wait a few days till Thursday night. All Right, so we've talked about parlays, what about teasers. Well, you've got multiple teams and you're betting those to win. Well, isn't that just as silly a bet as a parlay. If you think parlay bets are silly, not so fast, my friend, as somebody once set on a football show. We'll talk about that next on The Everything Guy to Sports Betting on vs. In The Everything Guy to Sports Betting on Visa in talking parlays and teasers today, and so let's get to teasers. So josh I said, I look at a teaser and I see, well, this is a multiple team bet, it's a parlay. But there's an important distinction between teasers and parlays that allows professional betters to take a look at teasers. Yeah, ron teasers. Again, they're kind of the cousin or the brother of a parlay, but they're a little bit different overall. So instead of um, a parlay, you know, you're taking the odds available to you that the books, that the books are providing. What you're doing with the teaser is you're adjusting the spread or the total in your favor to get a better number overall. So when you think about it, you'll often hear a lot of recreational betters or any kind of better um shart better as well saying I'm gonna tease up this team, I'm gonna tease down this team or this line. And basically the more you change the line, the smaller the payout is gonna be. But also the more teams you involve in the teaser er um, the bigger the payout is going to be. So there are a lot of pros and cons overall. But again the similarity with with teasers as as with parlays, same sort of thing. It's a multiple team bet, but they all have to win, they all have to cover in order for you to win. You could have a six team teaser and you could win five of them, but if you lose one, you lose the entire bet overall. So they're really mostly um and again only for point spreads and totals, which is why they're really just football basketball. But the most common teaser when you're looking at the NFL and football in general is usually either six points, six and a half points, or seven points, so kind of the six the six point teaser is your biggest, most popular one overall. So what would this mean. This means that let's say the Dolphins are plus three this weekend um against the Jets, you could tease them up to plus nine. You could add six points to get a better number there. Um. On the flip side, let's say the Rams are a seven point favorite against the Cardinals. You could tease the Rams down to minus one. So basically, when you're teasing up, you're adding six points. When you're teasing down, you're taking away six points. Same thing with totals. You know, maybe you really really like an over and you tease a total down from forty five six point teaser down to thirty nine. Long story short, there's a lot of semantics, a lot of fine print, but all you're doing is adjusting the spread based on that six point six and a point seven point whatever it may be, and then your payout payout will be determined by how how big of a number you've adjusted and how many teams are involved in the teaser um. But ron anything I missed there that you would like to add for teasers, Uh, there's a bunch, and it's not that you missed it. It's just that we're going to elaborate right now. One of the things that you look at in teaser. This is we talked to key numbers in another episode of The Everything Guy to Sports betting, key numbers being three, seven, ten. When you have a teaser, one of the things you want to try to do is tease through key numbers. And if you can tease through a couple of them. Let's say in an example that you give that the Rams are six point favorites. Okay, that means the team that they're playing is a six point underdog. Let's use your example of the Cardinals. So here they are at six. If you add six points to that, you tease that six up to twelve. You're teasing through two key numbers, seven and ten, So that gives you that much more of an advantage in that circumstance, particularly in game situations where teams could be about to get to seven, about to get to ten. Conversely, let's say the Rams are favored by eight and a half, tease them down to two and a half, and you've gone through two key numbers the other way, and now you're only laying two and a half and all they gotta do is win by three. But you've tease through seven and three, and that helps you out in that respect as well. Yeah, Ron, you hit the nail on the head. And to me, this is why teasers are basically provide more value than than parlay's in a lot of ways. Parlays you really get tied in, suckered into the fact that you can turn on amount of money into a big amount of money. You really just laser focused on getting that huge payout, whereas teasers there's a little more math involved, there's a little more strategy involved. And because NFL teasers are so popular, Ron, you just provided a fantastic blueprint. Because talking about key numbers, the most common margins of victory are usually three points because of a field goal, seven touchdown with the extra point you add that touchdown extra point of the field goal, that's ten points. So three seven ten, these are common margins of victory. More often than not, UH numbers will end in this UH you know, twenty four, twenty one game, a thirty to twenty game, these margins. So as a result, this is where teasers can really be beneficial. So teasing through key numbers you get the nail and head really really important. The more key numbers you can tease through UH and go right by really really important. So good example. Again, like you mentioned, we gotta reiterate it ron because this is really critical. An underdog, let's say they are at plus four and a half, you add six points to that, you get to ten and a half. Why is that important Because you just tease through seven and you tease through ten. So now if that underdog who was four and half on the regular spread, they lose by that key number of seven, you cover because you got ten and a half. They lose by ten, you also cover because you got ten and a half, which again the hook. We love that term. So this is why to me, yeah, the hook, the hook is key ron um. But this is to me why um, I put a little more stock into teasers going through key numbers because, uh, they're they're easier to win, and I think your probability um of covering these teasers going through key numbers, there's really something to that that can really help you make some money. Whereas parlay um you're just assuming more risk and it's harder, it's harder to win all these bets. Whereas you're going through key numbers NFL, you really can make some money betting betting through key numbers. And again for the uninitiated, hook means half point, just in case you weren't aware of that. Okay, key numbers for totals, by the way, Josh, this is something I'm still getting my arms wrapped around because I'm terrible at math. But give us some key numbers on totals. Yeah, key numbers on totals. You know, Um, they're not as important as spreads overall. But for example, like when I always think about is like forty seven and a half. You know, when you're looking at and again, add up um common margins of victory. So let's say you have a twenty seven to twenty game. Add those up, what is that equal forty seven? So therefore a lot of times you see a total that's maybe and again I think of like forty seven and a half, forty five and a half, you know, forty three and a half, those kind of numbers overall. But if we stick to that forty seven and a half, think of it this way. If you want to bet the under, you want that hook and get the forty seven and a half because again, twenty seven twenty game, you can cash that under on the flip side, you know, get to forty seven, you would push you want to take an over, you'd really want to shop for the best line and try to pounce on that number when it's forty six and a half. So again it's not that it's only key numbers for spreads. They are there for totals, not as important because you could have, you know, a sixteen ten game. There are different numbers overall, but to me, it's always being conscious of UM, you know a twenty four twenty one game. What's that? That's forty five? UM? Those are These are the numbers you want to keep in the back of your head and always the key numbers. Always ask yourself, I want to be on or off a key number. If if the key numbers is UH forty seven and a half, I want to be UM below that, you know, if I'm if I'm trying to bet the over, I want to be above it if I'm trying to bet the under. UM. And then also Ron you know, someone told great UM piece of advice at visan UM from from from some experts that we work with the UH. The Sharps do target a two team six point teaser in the NFL. That's another kind of value play because in the NFL very tight lines. You know, they don't move as much as college sports. The lines are are harder to be in the NFL. The odds makers are super good at setting these numbers. So a two team teaser, a two team six point teaser in the NFL, your odds are around minus one. All you're doing is paying a higher juice. So if you can tease through a couple of key numbers a two team six point teaser in the NFL, um some value their overall as well as teasing through key numbers. Should also note there are correlated parlays. Some casinos and sports books allow them, others don't, and there are rules that shade the gray as well. For instance, here in a circumstance where you see, let's say the Rams are favored by eight and a half, you tease that down to two and a half. You see the total at forty seven and a half, you tease it up to fifty three and a half. So you take the Rams, lay the points, and bet the under Some books will let you correlate that as a teaser. Others will not. And I should also note this, Josh, because I want to know how contrarian you really are. There is a rule that I learned. Actually I should have learned it a lot sooner than I did. A mall Shaw taught it to me from the sin don't tease through zero. Don't tease a team from a favorite to an underdog or vice versa, because at that point you might as well bet that team on the money line and get better value. What are your thoughts on that? I agree with your on. You know a lot of thing. Uh, you know, a lot of new bettors may say, you know, I can do a six point teaser. A team is minus three, so therefore I could tease them to plus three. In theory, that sounds great. You know, you could even lose the game, You could lose by two. You could still cover UM. But that's important because again you're not paying a great price. Money line is the better way to go overall. You know you could um, you know you you Basically the risk reward of the number you're laying isn't to your advantage. But then also some books, you know, a push would be considered a loss and your payout would be adjusted um if one of those bets pushes. So that's the other the other fine print two round because you know you're betting parlays, you're betting teasers. There's not a universal rule book. You know, different sports books have different find print and rules for betting parlays. Teasers, payouts are different. Um. You know, different scenarios can either change your payout, limited, increase, or whatever it may be. So um, make sure that you have access to multiple books, make sure you know what rules you're operating with, because you would hate to, you know, have this great teaser, a great parlay, expect this payout and then either lose the bet or have a much smaller payout because you didn't remember that. Okay, a push is regarded as a loss when you tease through zero, that sort of thing. So um again, teasers. To me, long story short, I am a little more um open and interested in teasers than I am in parlays. And to me, it's all about those NFL going through key numbers. That's to me where the value is in two teams six point teasers as well. Okay, and remember we're talking a lot about football here, but a lot of these things can apply to other sports. Although with teasers and parlays, especially with teasers, it tends to be more limited. But again this Josh just pointed out, check the fine print to the stamp that you care to or if you're at the book, or if you have the opportunity to go into a chat on your tablet with the app you're using in the casinos, do allow for a chat service. Go ahead and ask the question. They're happy to answer. It better to do that before than after, especially if you find out, like you said, Josh on Parlay's sometimes a push is a loss. That's fine print you really want to read. Yeah, that's critically important. Ron. And you know we also talk about, um, you know, really the NFL in general where your teasers are most common. Um, but you can also look at teasers in basketball. You know, you can team tease teams, you know, uh, five points, seven points, six points, whatever it may be. So these are available in basketball. To me, um, I think NFL is is kind of your your go to spot for teasers in general, just based on these key numbers. I did read a study that in the NBA, I think the most common margin of victory was between two and seven points, So you can kind of take that for what it's worth. Interesting to me, Yeah, you get into foul shooting and you know, maybe a team blows it the late free throws that can really screw it up. So um again, teasers are available in basketball, but really the NFL football in general, that's where you're gonna find a lot of value with with these key numbers. Um, hopefully in your in your back pocket taking advantage of them. Okay, so learn about teasers. Teasers can be your friend. Parlay's can be like crack if you're not careful. So just remember, just be careful of those, Okay. Josh one banana, two elephants, three diamond rings from my X, four refrigerators, five rolls, Royce's, six Netflix shows, seven breakfast tacos, eight iPhones, nine recordings by post Malone, ten vaccinations. You want to try that, Um, I'm gonna take the loss and I'm gonna use that as a learning example not to bet too money. Parlay's there you go, No Parlays and no nine recordings from post Malone, but plenty more episodes to come. Hopefully you're joining us again on the Everything Guy to sports betting on vs In