What are Teasers & Pleasers?

What are teasers and pleasers bets?

Teasers are bets that let you shift the spread in your favor. In exchange, you have to give back some of your payout. You also have to change one other bet into teasers, making it a parlay bet.

Pleasers are the opposite. You shift the spread to be more difficult to win and, in exchange, you gain a bigger payout if successful.

How Teaser Bets Work

As mentioned above, teaser bets shift the spread in your favor. You buy points to improve your chances of winning. However, you need to do the same with at least one other bet, turning them into parlay –which means you need to be successful in both games to see a winning payout.

Let’s work through an example. You took the following bets:

  1. New England Patriots -3 at New York Jets
  2. Chicago Bears +3 at Seattle Seahawks

You decide you want to turn these into teasers and add six points to each – a six point teaser. You now have a parlay teaser that looks like the following:

  1. New England Patriots +3 at New York Jets
  2. Chicago Bears +9 at Seattle Seahawks

You simply add the six points to each figure. And while the teaser increases your chance of being right, you need to get both of these wagers successful to earn a payout. If one fails, the parlay fails.

You also don’t win the normal amount in teasers. How much you give back for the ability to buy points vary by how many points you buy and also depends on how many games you put into your parlay.

What is a parlay bet?

How Pleaser Bets Work

Pleaser bets work just like teasers but in reverse. So instead of buying points to increase your chance of winning, you’re “giving points back” to decrease your chance of your wager being successful.

Let’s roll through the above example but as a pleaser. You took the following bets:

  1. New England Patriots -3 at New York Jets
  2. Chicago Bears +3 at Seattle Seahawks

Instead of teasing, you decide to make these pleasers, giving back six points. Your bets would now look like: You took the following bets:

  1. New England Patriots -9 at New York Jets
  2. Chicago Bears -3 at Seattle Seahawks

This is obviously a risky choice but it can worth it if you think the sportsbooks got the line wrong. You get a bigger payout, if successful, in exchange. And like teasers, pleasers turn into parlay bets, so both bets need to be successful for a payout.