Straight Bets
Straight bets are bets placed on a side or a total in Football or Basketball and Baseball. A straight bet on a side usually involves a point-spread. In this case you are wagering on a team to win the given time period on which you wager (game, 1st, 2nd half) after the score is adjusted by the particular point-spread. When you wager on a total you are wagering that the score of the game for the given time period (game, 1st, 2nd half) will be over or under a designated number. In either of these two bets you are laying 11 to win 10 or some variance of those odds, an example being bettors playing one side will lay 12 to win 10 and bettors playing the other side will lay 10 to win 10.
When wagering on game totals you are betting on the combined score of the game to go over or under the designated number for the time period of your bet, i.e. 1st half, half time or full game. Total wagers on the full game or 2nd half include overtime periods except in the case of Soccer when three way betting is offered ( the tie is offered as a betting option). If the tie is offered as an option overtime is not included in the calculation of the game total.