2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 9 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Best. Week. Ev—[Wait for it]—er. Giants…Raiders…Redskins…That’s all we missed on…21-3 is the best week we have ever posted in the Chris Thomas Five Star contest as a group adding $1,560 in Week 9 to our Virtual Piggybank…now sitting at $4,040 on the season…Shannon, Gasper, and Shawn each took one of the hits to go 2-1…Everyone else was perfect…all 8 players landing in the Black…Burgess catches back up to Shannon for the overall lead with both players hitting a 74.1% win rate…Miller is a ½ game back at 72.2%…The perfect weekend brings Hunter back on the right side of .500 but he is still the only player in the Red Zone after the vig…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 9 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

After a week where 9 of our 13 wins came on Road Dogs…We go the complete opposite direction in Week 9 with the only Road Hound being found in Hunter’s NCAA picks…A full third of our wagers will fall on two games with multiple plays on Chicago and Baltimore…another third goes to four two-packs on Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, and Seattle…Shannon and Riley are the hot hands over the last 3 Weeks both riding 8-1-0 records…followed by Miller at 7-2-0…then Burgess and Kevin who are both 6-3-0…Burgess has yet to have a week under 2-1 on the season…Good Luck everybody…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 8 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

13-11-0 on the weekend…Technically winners…but with the vig we leave $40 at the window bringing our Virtual Bankroll to $2,480…4 Losses came directly from the snooze-fest in Cleveland and Hunter got burned by a ½ point hook on Louisville…Shannon is the only player to go perfect on 3 Road Dog picks…and with a 75.00% win rate takes over 1st place in the contest…Burgess continues his perfect stretch of 2-1 or better to remain in 2nd at 70.83%…Riley’s run of 6 “Perfect Weekends” comes to close in Seattle…but he still inches closer to getting in the Black…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 7 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

18-6-0 Again!…Vegas will be moving lines after we hit the windows…another +$960 weekend bringing the virtual bankroll to $2,520…4 Perfect Weekends including Riley (Now ‘Perfect’ 6 Weeks in a Row…3 positive and 3 negative….to the good 2 weeks in a  row)…Miller hits his 2nd 3-0 in a row to move into first place by a ½ game…Shannon goes 3-0 to move into a tie for 2nd…and Gasper goes 3-0 to redeem himself for last weekend…Burgess continues his streak of 7 straight weeks of 2-1 or better…3 Players are over 70% on the year…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 7 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Trying to get these up before Thursday action because some people took early week games…The Over is the most popular again with 6 Plays…New Orleans laying 2½ against the Bucs is the most popular single wager with 5 separate plays…5 total plays on the Green Bay game with 3 laying the points and 2 on The Over…Dallas sees the next most plays with 3….those 3 games could make or break us in Week 7…Full plays below…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 6 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

We took Vegas to the woodshed in Week 6…18-6-0 as a group (75.0%) with only Gasper on the wrong side of the ledger…We added $960 to the virtual bankroll…86-56-2 on the year is a 60.6%  win rate for the group…but it was just barely that way…5 games were won on underdogs who made the cover by 1½ points or less…Hunter gets 2 of those gifts (South Carolina by 1, Stanford by 1½) to go 3-0 on his NCAA picks for the first time since Week 1…bringing himself to only out the vig on the year…Miller gets 2 more (St Louis by ½, Dallas by 1½) to also go perfect on the weekend and move up to alone in 2nd place…Burgess gets the last gift with the ½ point hook from St Louis to keep his streak of no losing weekends on the year…he remains the leader with a ridiculous 72.2% win rate…Riley stays on his streak of 5 ‘perfect weekends’…this time going to the positive side of things…full results are below…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 6 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Was originally posted at the MFL Message Board on Thursday October 11…just posting to the blog now for posterity…

Making a special effort to get these up in a timely manner…even if they won’t be on the blog till I get home (fucking Web Nazi’s at work)…The Over is the most popular play this week with 5 wagers…Hunter of course takes 3 NCAA plays…3 plays involving the Packers…Both sides of the NYG/SF game see action (a 44 will middle Vegas and let them both win)…Pairs on the Lions and Rams…then single action after that…Good Luck everybody…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 5 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

13-11-0 on the weekend is technically on the right side of the tally sheet…but still a -$40 loser after the vig…Atlanta and Chicago were the biggest successes followed by The Over that went 80% as the most played with 5 wagers…Burgess continues his amazing streak with no losing weeks…He now sits at 11-4-0 for +$550 and the overall lead…Shannon and Shawn are a game back at 10-5-0…Miller and Gasper sit another ½ game back at 9-5-1…Gasper has the 2nd best streak running…going 6-2-1 over the last 3 Weeks…On the other end…Riley runs another perfect 0-3 and is 3-9 the last 4 Weeks…Betting against him would have paid out $480 over that stretch…full results after the break…

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