Glossary / Prices & odds / Dime line
A ParlayAPI glossary entry

Dime line

A dime line is a two-sided market with only 10 cents of spread between the two prices - -105/-105 or +100/-110 - roughly half the vig of the standard -110/-110 twenty-cent line. Pinnacle built its reputation on dime lines across most markets.

Worked example

# Standard line vs dime line
        -110 / -110  ->  implied sum 104.76%  ->  vig 4.76%
        -105 / -105  ->  implied sum 102.44%  ->  vig 2.44%
        # Breakeven win rate drops from 52.38% to 51.22%

Halving the vig roughly halves the win rate a bettor needs to clear, which compounds enormously over volume. Low-vig books can price this tightly because they attract informed flow and move numbers fast rather than padding margins - the profile of a sharp book.

Where it shows up in ParlayAPI

Per-book vig is directly computable from any ParlayAPI odds response (sum the implied probabilities, subtract 1), so finding the cheapest market for a given bet is a sort. The best-line view does the cross-book comparison across 45+ sportsbooks & sources.

Related terms

Reduced juicePromotional pricing with lower vig. Vig (Juice)The bookmaker's commission baked into prices. Sharp bookA book that welcomes winning action. Sharp anchorThe reference book for fair value.