BRENNAN: PROLINE + offers better betting ways for bettors

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Unlike the rest of the punters who took the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to cover in the first game of the season against the Dallas Cowboys, and that was the majority, I made money on Thursday.

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How is that, you ask?

Not adding the 7.5 points and betting against Tom Brady.

I wasn’t that smart.

No, I filled my pocket by signing up for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s new PROLINE + initiative.

All it cost me was $ 100 to take the limited-time “Welcome Bonus” offer of 25 bones.

It was like taking candy from a baby.

Seriously, it’s a pretty good deal.

Don’t tell the good folks at OLG, but I would have tipped them $ 25 to get ready with PROLINE +, which takes a lot of stress out for those of us who, for the better part of three decades, have been running around on the go. the corner gas station or the nearest grocery store to fill out our PROLINE receipts 10 minutes before the start of Sunday.

Now there is no more rush, no more lineups.

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PROLINE + allows you to place your bet online, with your phone or laptop.

How civilized, right?

All you have to do is create an account with OLG, which even I figured out how to do eventually.

I could have opened it with a smaller deposit, but I did what I had to do to get the Welcome Bonus.

Heck, I was probably going to spend 100 on PROLINE tickets before Week 3 regardless.

This way I get a little more bang for my buck.

Best of all, you can use PROLINE + to bet on a single game.

In stores, until the new year, it remains at least two (Point Spread) and three (PROLINE).

“We launched ProLine + on August 27, the same day single event gambling became legal in Canada,” said Dave Pridmore, OLG’s chief digital and strategy officer. “We built on 30 years of sports betting and retail experience by creating a new digital platform with more sports, more events … new types of betting. In game bets, futures, markets.

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“Obviously, having unique events available is critical to allowing bettors a different experience when actually betting on the only game they are interested in. Everything is wrapped in that OLG brand of trust and giving back to the province that many of our clients find value in. “

There is a lot of pay to the province, okay.

While the government has yet to release the 2020-2021 annual report, in the fiscal year that began on April 1, 2019 and ended (pre-COVID) on March 31, 2020, OLG provided Ontario with $ 2.3 billion in net earnings, money used for key priorities like health care and education.

From PROLINE, a retailer alone, it generated $ 283 million in revenue, including $ 175 million that was returned to customers in prizes.

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While it is still too early to estimate the impact PROLINE + will have, in less than three weeks OLG says there has been $ 3 million in gambling.

“Parlays can sometimes be a bit complicated, trying to understand and triangulating three selections in retail,” Pridmore said. “So this is simpler, easier for novice bettors to understand, and makes the whole sports betting fan experience more enjoyable.”

Of course.

If we call things by their names, while it’s nice to be charitable to hospitals and schools, betting on one event instead of three obviously gives you a better chance of winning.

Does that mean a reduction in the money that will go to the province each year?

Not necessarily.

“Generally speaking, from OLG’s point of view, we would see more bets, given that people often reinvested with maybe a couple of bets on the game or more (games),” Pridmore said. “There are more options to bet during the game, which creates a kind of trade-off between the bet and the return to the player.”

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In the meantime, a good bet is that my $ 25 Welcome Bonus will be back with OLG on Sunday.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES?

The Bucs-Cowboys curtain lifter marked just the fourth game in NFL history in which both teams throw at least 50 passes. Dak Prescott was good at 42 of 58 for 403 yards, while Brady completed 32 of 50 for 379 yards. Only once did both teams throw 50 balls in a game that did not reach overtime. That was in 2014, when Brady threw 53 times and Peyton Manning had 57 passes in the Patriots’ win over the Broncos.… The 52.5 over / under was crushed in the Bucs 31-29 final… Brady had four touchdown passes for the 27th time in his career, or 28 counting the postseason. He has also had five five TD games and two (three postseason counted) six touchdown games. On an 11-yard touchdown pass to Rob Gronkowski in the third quarter on Thursday, Brady listened on the line instead of going through the originally planned play. “Tom made a great decision,” Gronk said later, according to Pro Football Talk. “I was actually ina route, and then it logged me into lock, and then it logged me into lock and release. You just see everything on the field. Is awesome. I mean, the guy has been playing for 80 years. He’s seen all the defenses, all the plays. ”… This might not be the year to have Ezekiel Elliott on your fantasy list. Dallas’ running game took a hit with the Pro Bowl RG Zack Martin missed the first game because of to a positive COVID test, and took another hit Friday when incumbent RT La’el Collins was suspended five games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. Interestingly, multiple sources told ESPN that Collins did not fail at any evidence and that nowhere in the policy is five games listed as a possible penalty. Collins played Thursday after missing the entire 2020 season with a hip injury. Meanwhile, Elliott charged the ball 11 times for 33 yards against the Bucs – He hit his third-lowest career total of 72 games.

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