What is a line trap ?
In my opinion there is no such thing as a “line trap” per se. This is an expression often used by handicapping services to scare people into thinking there’s a big conspiracy out there. Think of Vegas as a money broker. They don’t care who wins when the line is initially posted on Sunday night. They want to bring in wagers evenly on both sides of a line. Points are scored primarily in groups of 7 and 3, and to a lesser extent 6, 2, & 1…because of this there are key spread numbers that teams often win by. Thus a line will usually not stray too far from the originally posted closest key spread number. The line moves inversely from the side that most of the money is coming in on. The house’s goal is to even the drop on both sides of a line. IMO there is no such thing as a “line trap”, only unknowledgeable bettors.
