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**Udog** · 10-31-2018, 09:30 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Nevada casinos’ net profit in September:

$32.7M— crap tables

$40.0M— roulette

$56.3M— sports betting

$70.4M— baccarat

$92.0M— blackjack

$281.7M— penny slots

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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Mid-week musings…….

13) Hard to believe that Sunday night’s Packer-Patriot game will be only second time that Aaron Rodgers-Tom Brady have faced each other in a regular season game. Green Bay won the first meeting, 26-21 at home four years ago.

12) Giants’ backup QB Kyle Lauletta was arrested in New Jersey Tuesday morning for a third-degree offense of eluding police as well as obstructing justice and resisting arrest. Lauletta has a history of dangerous driving, according to the Weehawken PD in New Jersey.

The kid hasn’t taken an NFL snap, but drives a Jaguar and apparently not very well; he wasn’t at practice Tuesday, so doubtful he replaces Eli Manning anytime soon.

11) Ben Roethlisberger is playing thru a broken LEFT index finger; non-throwing hand makes it whole lot better, but I’m sure that taking snaps from center still hurts like hell.

10) NFL trades at the deadline Tuesday:

— Broncos traded WR DeMaryus Thomas to the Texans, who they play Sunday.
— Rams acquired pass rusher Dante Fowler from Jacksonville.
— Eagles acquired WR Golden Tate from Detroit.
— Packers traded RB Ty Montgomery to Houston.

9) Buffalo Bills’ QB Derek Anderson (concussion) is out Sunday, meaning that Nathan Peterman gets another start. Line opened at 8.5, is up to 9.5 as I type this (10 at the Wynn), By kickoff on Sunday, line could get to 11 or 12— not lot of support for Peterman out there.

Matt Barkley was signed to be Buffalo’s backup QB; Terrelle Pryor was also signed; he could be a wildcat QB, seeing how he once played QB for the Raiders, before moving to WR. Going to be a long couple months for Bills coaches/fans.

8) Denver QB Case Keenum was with the Texans in 2014; apparently that year coach Bill O’Brien told Keenum that he “would never be more than a 3rd string NFL QB.”

Now that Keenum is making $18M a year playing for the Broncos, wonder what he’ll say to O’Brien Sunday when the Texans visit Denver?

7) A college football player at Maryland passed away during off-season workouts; the coach was suspended, but Tuesday DJ Durkin got his job back, and not everyone is happy about it.

When Durkin addressed the players for the first time, several players walked out, including some starters. Saturday’s home game with Michigan State should be interesting.

6) Marlins’ catcher JT Realmuto has let it be known that he wants to be traded, and will not sign a long-term deal with Miami. He is by far their best player, should bring back a pretty good haul. Good catchers are hard to find.

5) Chicago White Sox turned down P James Shields’ 2019 option, paid him $2M to go away; same thing for Milwaukee with Mike Moustakas, Joakim Soria ($1M each).

4) This isn’t a criticism or a complaint, just a statement of fact: 41.9% of runs scored this in postseason scored on home runs; during the season, 40.3% of runs scored via taters.

3) I don’t think Stephen Curry is getting enough credit for how much he has helped basketball, as a whole; kids see how great a shooter he is and they work more on their games, and now shooting has become so much better. Skilled basketball players are way more fun to watch.

Curry isn’t a dunker; he isn’t huge (6-3, 190), but he is incredibly skilled because he works his butt off on those skills, and that has caught on all over the country. Good for him.

2) Klay Thompson was 14-24 from the arc Monday night in Golden State’s 149-124 win over the Bulls, who are not good. 14 treys is one game is an all-time NBA record. Coming into the game, Thompson was 5-36 from the arc for the season.

Golden State led the Bulls 92-50 at halftime…..at HALFTIME!!!!!

How about competing? Chicago has an awful team…..embarrassing.

1) On NBA.TV, Isiah Thomas was killing the Bulls at halftime; Chicago’s own PR people put out a tweet mocking the team’s first half. No bueno.

**Udog** · 10-31-2018, 09:34 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Wednesday, October 31

Chicago @ Vancouver

Game 51-52
October 31, 2018 @ 10:05 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Chicago
11.981
Vancouver
9.137
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Chicago
by 3
7
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Chicago
-120
6
Dunkel Pick:
Chicago
(-120); Over

NHL
Long Sheet

Wednesday, October 31

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CHICAGO (6-3-0-3, 15 pts.) at VANCOUVER (7-6-0-0, 14 pts.) - 10/31/2018, 10:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
CHICAGO is 39-56 ATS (-28.2 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
CHICAGO is 16-32 ATS (+48.9 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
VANCOUVER is 4-2 (+4.0 Units) against the spread versus CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
VANCOUVER is 4-2-0 straight up against CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
6 of 6 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+6.1 Units)

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NHL

Wednesday, October 31

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Trend Report
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Chicago Blackhawks
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chicago's last 7 games
Chicago is 6-15 SU in its last 21 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games on the road
Chicago is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Vancouver
Chicago is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Vancouver
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago's last 5 games when playing Vancouver
Chicago is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Vancouver
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games when playing on the road against Vancouver
Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver is 14-6 ATS in its last 20 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Vancouver's last 10 games
Vancouver is 8-2 ATS in its last 10 games at home
Vancouver is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 17 of Vancouver's last 22 games at home
Vancouver is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Chicago
Vancouver is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Vancouver's last 5 games when playing Chicago
Vancouver is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Vancouver's last 5 games when playing at home against Chicago

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