Bet the Mortgage: Week 6, 2016

by Tony & Andy | Oct 13, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

Tony’s going to have to go back into hiding pretty soon if things keep going like this. He dropped all four of his bets in week five, depleting his bankroll to dangerous levels.

Andy hit just two of four, but his sizable bet on New England and Tom Brady’s return set him up with a nice, healthy positive for the week.

He’s hovering around the .500 mark in picks and has stayed close to even with his bankroll all season.

Here are the standings so far:

Here are our bets for week six.

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Bet the Mortgage: Week 5, 2016

by Tony & Andy | Oct 6, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

More mediocrity – and more of the kind of bets that make a guy go broke – in week four.

Don’t follow our lead – we know nothing of what we are doing.

Then again, that never stopped us before.

Here are the standings so far.

And here are our darts for week five. (more…)

Bet the Mortgage, Week 4

by Tony | Sep 29, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

Well, as is his custom, Tony has swung wildly and, in this case, missed. He went 1-3, but missed his two biggest bets, leaving him way down for the week. After a good week followed by a bad week, Andy broke even in week three.

Even is boring. Go big or go home … or go into hiding … again.

Anyway, here are the standings:

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Bet the Mortgage: Week 3, 2016

by Tony & Andy | Sep 22, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

Week two was as bad as week one was good.

A 1-7 combined mark knocked $5,000 off of our combined bankrolls.

As Tony put it when I informed him of his 0-4 futility: “That’s more like it.”

I guess he’s going back into hiding.

Anyway, here are the standings. (more…)

Bet the Mortgage: Week 2, 2016

by Tony & Andy | Sep 14, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

At a 3-0-1 clip for week one, Andy started this year’s “Bet the Mortgage” segment with a better week than he had all last season.

Tony didn’t fare quite as well, but he did take advantage of an outlier money line bet on the Giants to cash in with a positive week – he’s a mythical $305 closer to paying back the debt he owes the sharks from last season.

All in all, we added a combined roughly 10 percent to the pot in week one. Can we keep it going?

Here’s where we stand:

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Bet the Mortgage: Week 1, 2016

by Sponsored Post | Sep 8, 2016 | 2016 Season, NFL Gambling

The bets last year were mostly brutal. I hit a couple good weeks at the end to make a small profit, but finished below .500 in actual bets. Tony … well, he’s still in hiding. He lost the entirety of his mythical bankroll and then another ¾ of that figure that he’d managed to find some mythical bank to stake.

He’s making contact with us when he feels it’s safe, and he plans to participate in the pool again this year.

Here are the rules: We each start with $10,000. We pick either against the spread or the over/under for three games each week and then finish with one upset against the money line. So here are the standings so far:

And here are our, for entertainment only, wagers on this week’s opening weekend. (more…)