Bravado betting is the condition when a sports bettor can remember the precise circumstances of a failed two-point conversion from seven years ago but not the name of the website on which he lost the money. “Bravado,” he says. “You mean Bovada.” I say. “Yes, that.”
There is something impressive about this. We are discussing someone who considers half a point on a football spread a matter of almost constitutional importance. Offer him +2.5 instead of +3 and he will explain the distinction until your children leave home. Ask him where he placed that bet mistakes the chutzpah it took to place it for the place itself.
The Brain Has Submitted a Counteroffer
Bovada is an awkward name because it sounds as though you have already misremembered something else.
Buffy: “Where’d you summer this year, Blair?” Blair: “Bovada.” Buffy: “I’m afraid that’s a betting website, my dear.” Blair: “Well, I’ve certainly lost holiday money there.”
“Bravado,” by contrast, is an actual word. The brain recognizes it, approves it and stops working. This is irritating but understandable. You wanted somewhere to put twenty dollars on a basketball game, but now you’re thinking about John Wayne and all his attendant chutzpah. Bravado Betting would be an excellent sportsbook name. But it’s not a sportsbook. Bravado Betting describes a quality the customer supplies in abundance and Bovada is perfectly equipped to invoice.
Bravado Betting Is a Staking Method
The unfortunate thing is that the mistaken name fits the activity a little too well. Bravado betting begins with “I actually love this.” Not “I make the price slightly wrong.” We have moved beyond probability and into a relationship with an NFL total. Soon comes “I’d take it at any number,” which is a peculiar boast about something sold by the number.
You wouldn’t tell a realtor you’d buy a house at any price. But here you are. Then you’re in as deep as “Put my mortgage on it.” Just…no. Apart from anything else, the mortgage is already on the house. That arrangement has paperwork. We needn’t involve the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yr boy rarely means his own mortgage, of course. It is your mortgage he is volunteering, from behind the sturdy financial defenses of a $10 accumulator.
All of which is simply to say…
Bovada Doesn’t Mind Your Bravado Betting
Bovada doesn’t require you to pronounce its name correctly, as long as you download their app.
All sports betting requires is that you to select an outcome, specify an amount and confirm that you would like the amount to become conditional upon the outcome. Whether you arrive calling it Bovada, Bravado or “the thing Blair uses” is largely immaterial. Nobody in accounts is refusing a profitable transaction because you’ve added an “r” and transposed the “a” and “o”.
We should therefore retain both names, but assign them properly. Bovada is where you checked the price. Bravado betting is why you doubled the stake. And “basically even” is what you hope for—a phrase which, like Bovada itself, apparently permits considerable variation in spelling, meaning and arithmetic.