Harvick grabs first truck pole at Gateway

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07/16/2010 - Madison, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kevin Harvick will start on the pole for Friday's CampingWorld.com 200 Camping World Truck Series race after posting the quickest lap in qualifying at Gateway International Raceway just outside of St. Louis.

Harvick, a Sprint Cup Series regular, turned a lap of 133.325 m.p.h. around the 1.25-mile track for his first career pole in the series. It came in his 105th start.

James Buescher qualified on the outside pole with a lap of 133.266 m.p.h.

Brad Keselowski will start third, followed by Justin Lofton and Johnny Sauter.

Rookie Austin Dillon, who won his first truck race last weekend at Iowa, qualified sixth. Dillon had won the pole for the last three races.

Timothy Peters took the seventh spot, while Ron Hornaday Jr., Matt Crafton and Brian Ickler completed the top-10.

Points leader Todd Bodine will start 14th, and Mike Skinner, the defending race winner, will roll off one position ahead of Bodine in 13th.

Chris Fontaine, Butch Miller, Ryan Hackett, Richard Harriman and Brent Raymer failed to qualify.

The 200-mile truck race at Gateway is scheduled to start around 9 p.m. (et).

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He said I was wrong for suggesting oddsmakers care about who wins or loses games.

"Oddsmakers only care about splitting the betting public 50/50 on both sides of the line and keeping the commission (a.k.a. juice)," he wrote.

He might have been right about not understanding "the science of oddsmaking". After all, I'm not an oddsmaker. That said, I stick to my assertion that oddsmakers (a.k.a. sportbooks) often do care about who wins games.

Granted, as a general rule, sportsbooks try to balance their action so that they're not exposed to big losses. However, there are times when this is difficult to pull off, regardless of how much a line has moved. There are also times when that general rule is ignored and a book pursues risk.

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With a growing aversion to risk, it should come as no surprise that Vegas bookmakers have been panicking this NFL season.

Despite huge pointspreads, a disproportionate percentage of bettors are still laying their money on favorites like the Eagles, Colts, Pats and Vikings rather than the dogs (a common trend for the largely recreational bettors that visit Vegas).

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