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Juice

Juice is simply another word for vig, used interchangeably in nearly all casual and even professional betting conversation.

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What Juice means

Juice is simply another word for vig, used interchangeably in nearly all casual and even professional betting conversation. You'll hear both terms used within the same sentence by the same person without any distinction intended - "the juice on that line is brutal" and "the vig on that line is brutal" mean exactly the same thing.

Key points

  • Juice is simply another word for vig, used interchangeably in nearly all casual and even professional betting conversation.
  • You'll hear both terms used within the same sentence by the same person without any distinction intended - "the juice on that line is brutal" and "the vig on that line is brutal" mean exactly the same thing.

Example and context

In practice

You'll hear both terms used within the same sentence by the same person without any distinction intended - "the juice on that line is brutal" and "the vig on that line is brutal" mean exactly the same thing.

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