I agree with #4, choosing the most beneficial book giving the best odds for the favorite then splitting isn't great. But if you took the consensus of let's say +410/-550 would give +480 to the Texans bettor no? Yes the odds are also better for the favorite bettor not having to wager as much, but if I wanted to bet Texans and could get +480 instead of +410 through lake, why wouldn't you? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding a part of your comment?
You should also be agreeing with #3, which is why I posted the EV in the thread in the beginning.
Consensus wasn't +410/-550 though, came out to something closer to +395/-510, which would have averaged to -453ish.
To your question though, regarding booking your hypothetical of +480 vs Lake's +410, you absolutely would, but that's the point of shopping a book and why I posted all other competitor's values.
You wouldn't pay 10k more for the same car at a different dealership, books are the same way.
Where Lake has to use higher vigorish sites like Bovada because his book here would be severely unbalanced and *needs* the vig to run it profitably, we don't have to if we're splitting wagers.
The issue is when that wager is a moneyline, however, and as I mentioned in point #3, doing so will only favor one person (the one laying the favorite). Whereas splitting a spread makes the absolute most sense since both parties gain value rather than lose it.
And truly.....I only use DK so it just happened to make me look sleezy. I don't look at offshore books because I don't have a purpose to living in KS lol
You're all good brother, I mainly quote on Caesars or MGM since they are the most honorable and reliable, and also because here in KC we can just hop across the state line to Harrahs to spend our Caesars credits from Kansas sportsbetting
