NBA superstar LeBron James is on familiar ground as he bids to help Cleveland Cavs to victory in the Eastern Conference Final which gets under way tonight.
The 31-year-old has made it past this stage six times, winning two titles, and his side are hot favourites to see off a Toronto Raptors side playing in their first Conference final.
Game one sees the Raptors on the road and they're 11-2 at Skybet to post an opening victory while the Cavs are 1-6 at Betfair and 10-11 at bet365 on the -10.5 point handicap.
Cycling's Giro d'Italia resumes after a rest day with Italy's Gianluca Brambilla hoping to hold on to the yellow jersey on the mountainous 216km route.
Other sporting highlights include ATP tennis and IPL cricket so as usual post your tips and chat here and good luck with your bets.
Cheers Jordan, another 3rd quarter winner!
Went double stakes too as you were confident ;)
Cheers Jordan good to have you back on the NBA props. Hope the job is going well.
@jordan Cheers mate, icing on the cake!?
**Posted Yesterday**
French Basketball Playoffs
Strasbourg @ Pau-Orthez (19:30GMT)
Game two of playoffs as Strasbourg travel to Pau-Orthez. The first encounter strasbourg won by 5 points and now they will try to repeat the feat in what should be a tougher road game. Looking at the stats, strasbourg havent lost away to Orthez since 2014. And all the leads have been more than 10 points. Today i see the same way. Strabourg are great team that have huge winning streak. They have won against pau orthez 8 times in the row. Strasbourg have a strong team and although Orthez are at home, I’m far from convinced they have the depth in quality to record what would be a huge win for them.
Strasbourg (-3.5) @ 7/4 William Hill – 1.5pts staked. ****WINNER**** :)
Good luck!
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Final score 88-97. This scoreline flattered Pau-Orthez but a good win nonetheless.
**Posted Yesterday**
Italian A2 Playoffs Double
Scafati (-3.5) **WON**
Brescia (-2.5) **WON**
Double @ Evens William Hill – 1.5pts staked. ****WINNER**** :)
Good luck!
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Brescia won by 32 points and Scafati a less impressive 9 points.
Mens Challenger Tour
S. Curuso v Y. Reuter (09:00GMT)
S. Curuso @ 3/4 BetVictor – 2.5pts staked.
Good luck!
Nice one hunter was on your french tip didnt get on the italian one tho?
Nice Winners @hunter – keep it up – glad you come back GL ;)
Combo @ 2.25 Unibet
Ulm – Oldenburg – Oldenburg(+10.5) @ 1.31
Nanterre – Monaco – Nanterre(+6.5) @ 1.33
Lyon – Challon – under 170.5 @ 1.29
Combo @ 2.06 Unibet
Julia Georges – Anastasija Sevastova – Goerges to win @ 1.42
Alla Kudryavtseva – Zarina Diyas – Diyas to win @ 1.45
Cleveland Cavaliers – Toronto Raptors
– Toronto(+11.5) @ 1.81 Unibet
Combo @ 5.93 Unibet
– Hyeon Chung – P-H Mathieu – Mathieu(-2.5) @ 1.78
– Benoit Paire – Adrian Mannarino – over 21.5 @ 1.79
– Nanterre – Monaco – Nanterre to win @ 1.86
well done @hunter and welcome back too
Giro d Italia Stage 10
– Diego Ulissi E/W @ $15.00 (1/4 odds top 3)
$5 each way returns $97.50 1st place, or $22.50 for 2nd or 3rd.
Diego will have the local support and is perfect for sneaking the win today. He’s a strong climber and at 2:54 mins off the lead , the GC riders may not be too concernced about reigning him in.
Ulissi is $23 to win ‘in-play’ now with Paddy Power.
Btw welcome back @hunter, i might be on more now that ur back, I always love followin ur tips!
Wow how poor is caruso serving needs to pic his game up a bit
Wow how poor is caruso serving needs to pick his game up a bit
He is terrible at holding his serve… Up & doen emotions – no problem breaking serve but cant hold. Terrible
Caruso absolutely a disgrace. Write that name down in the book to never bet on again.
Mens Challenger Tour
S. Curuso v Y. Reuter (09:00GMT)
S. Curuso @ 3/4 BetVictor – 2.5pts staked. ***LOST***
Good luck!
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Poor start to the day with Curuso playing like a bum. Both poor players but thought Curuso had the form and surface on his side!
Rajeev Ram (about to start) looks overpriced @ 2/1. Not his best surface but leading 2-1 in H2H. Neither in great for either. Might be worth a point!
On a Treble of Shwartzman, Mathieu & Stoser @ $2.75
Why did i include Mathieu … Down 0-2 already, hasn’t scored a point!
If ya thought Caruso played bad, just watch 5mins of Mathieu getting destroyed by pretty mich unknwon Chung, & doesnt even seem to care, in his home tournament… Typical Mathieu
Wow, Mathieu actually wins the set from 1-4 down.
C’mon Raj!!!!!
This ram match is a flip of a coin could go anyway
And atilla was thinking of getting on mathieu after he started the fight back didnt and now kicking myself as it was over evens
Yeah he was $3.50 when he was down 1-4. He’s smashig it now but did my nerves in at the start.
Rajeev came so close to winning in 2… Prob lose now – but good tipping Hunter!
There’s the break! Hopefully he’ll kick on now but wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a few more twists.
Raaaajeeeev! Rolls in at big odds. Good stuff Hunter!
Quality tipping again hunter just wish i had more balls than to just chuck a couple of quid at it lol
Indian Premier League Cricket (IPL):
Rising Pune Supergiants vs Dehli Daredevils:
– OVER 10.5 match Sixes @ $1.83 (paddy power)
The Sixes total is a couple short of what it should be. In last place with no hope of making the playoffs Rising Pune should swing freely with nothing to lose, whilst Dehli MUST win if they want to make the play-offs. Both sides have capable big hitters in Khawaja, Bailey, Brathwaite, Pandya, Guptil, etc and i think we’ll get this total easy enough.
Going to chuck my hat in the ring and say the match between mikhail kushukin vs tomasz bellucci will go the full distance to 3 sets mikhail has the h2h 2-0 but tomasz is the better on clay
Mikhail kushukin is a big price at 2.75 think he may start quickly and grab the first set but then choke
Match to go 3 sets 2.50 decimal odds and also like the look of tie break in the match also at 2.50
Tennis Singles:
– Wawrinka/Ramos-Vinolas OVER 21.5 match games @ $1.83
– Carreno-Busta -4.5 @ $2.10
– Paire -4.5 @ $2.00
Double @ $2.16:
– Belucci WIN
– J. Sousa WIN
ATP Nice
J. Sousa v V. Estrella
Estrella @ 6/4 PP – 1.5pts staked.
Good luck!
MLB Baseball Treble @ $5.33
– Chicago Cubs ML
– Texas Rangers ML
– Pittsburgh Pirates ML
On current form and with selected pitchers, I can see all 3 of these teams not just winning but covering the run line. But as a Treble i’ll just take the Moneyline and cash out if they are all comfortably winning after the 6th Inning (been burnt before by late comebacks in baseball!).
Damn ‘serve-bot’ Anderson takes the 1st in a tie-breaker. Hate when serve-bots beat real tennis
Getting on schwarzman to come back and win at 3.25 inplay
Nice, hope he comes thru. He’s in top form, won the Istanbul totle on Clay recrntly, beating big names.
Shwarz is a mess today… Wont hold my breath
Not looking good for diego hopefully he can pull something out the bag
The Shwartzman goes on the black list with Caruso. Terrible for a clay court specialist to get beaten in straight sets by a hard court serve-bot.
Double: Toronto Blue Jays, LA Dodgers @ 1.14/1
Cheers gents. Nice winner on Adams and hopefully another good game from Lowry tonight. He has brought up this total in every regular season game against the Cavs this season and will likely need to do so in every game in the series again to have a chance to progress.
Kyle Lowry (Raptors) Over 28.5 Points and Assists @ 5/6 @ Betfair – 2.4 points
Not really seeing how Annika Beck is such a big favourite against Nicole Gibbs. I know Beck delivered for me yesterday but beating Pereira doesn’t change the fact she’s in pretty poor form. Should be closer than bookies expect so got to be worth a point @ 13/8
*Posted Yesterday*
MLB Bet For Tonight
4 Fold @ 6/1 (£10) LOST
Pirates ML Win 8-5
Blue Jays ML Lost 13-2
Tigers ML Win 10-8
LA Dodgers ML Lost 7-6
MLB Bets For Tonight
Single @ 11/10
Nationals ML
Nationals pitcher Scherzer on top form last game and had 2 brillant games away to NY Mets last year. NY Mets pitcher Syndergaard not been great in last 3 starts.
Treble @ 4.25/1 (£10)
White Sox ML
Cubs ML
Rangers ML
White Sox is base on form and hitting well, Cubs and Rangers is due to starting pitcher for them each
Blue Jays money line @ 1.76 *lost*
D’backs money line @ 1.8 (2.5pts)
Wednesday 18th 2.40am Gmt
thank u dazzler… we’ll bounce back
Am on it pal!!!#believe
EuroHoops Fun Fourfold
Not a huge amount I like tonight so just gonna try a longshot!
Hyeres-Toulon (-4.5)
Lyon Villeurbanne (-1.5), 1st Quarter Handicap
Ludwigsburg (Money Line)
BC Souffelweyersheim (+16)
Fourfold @ 16/1 Skybet – 1pt staked.
Good luck!
365 now offer “to record a double double” with their player props.
Lebron, Lowry, Biyombo and Love tonight.
Love looks the most likely but he’s only 1.27.
Could be a decent odds in the OKC series with quite a few of the players.
@nick, not a new thing for 365 mate. Biyombo might be worth a look if they have it. Adams tomorrow will be the same price for Love I imagine.
Just saw that they’ve added blocks too, that could be worth looking into!
And…. steals, sorry for the 3 posts :D