Betting Sports from Your iPhone
So I’m at happy hour last night, with a large mug of wonderful ale just put in front of me, and a trading/sports-betting buddy is there at the bar too. It’s half-time of the Villanova vs. Georgetown game and G-town, a 13.5 favorite, is actually behind by a point at the half. We start speculating on what the contracts at Tradesports are probably trading at, and he tries to get them up on his T-Mobile Sidekick device.
Couldn’t do it - that phone is pretty trick but the web pages apparently have to be specially formatted to be mobile-friendly to come up on that particular gadget. So we manage to finagle an iPhone away from the owner’s son who happened to be hanging out behind the bar at the time (a 20-year old kid who was a little worried about us doing something illegal on his phone). It took some doing, but I managed to finally get to the contracts for that game.
The G-town -13.5 contracts were offered at 13. That’s a 130 risk to win 970 that they will come back and cover the fair pointspread. The straight-up contract, however, is at 68/73. I decide that the best play is to sell the straight-up contract at 68 getting more than 2-1 that the team currently ahead at half-time will win the game.
But I don’t make the wager, because actually logging in and placing the bet was a little too much effort for an iPhone newbie. My fingers are just too fat for the small links on the Tradesports trading page. If I actually owned one of those things I’m sure I’d have it wired, however. Hmmmmm - maybe when I get my $600 from the government that is supposed to be blown on frivolous consumer goods…
The game? Oh yeah - it was pretty good. G-town pulled out to a 10-point lead but Nova caught them again. Looked like it was going into overtime when I was leaving with the to-go spaghetti - so selling the straight-up contract turned out to be the best play (regardless of the eventual result).
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