A push inside a teaser
Some operators drop the pushed leg and settle the teaser at the next size down; others void the whole ticket.
A teaser is a parlay with the numbers moved, and a pushed leg has to go somewhere. Reducing to a smaller teaser at the shorter price is one answer and voiding is another. Both are internally consistent and neither is a league rule.
Teasers move spreads and totals onto whole numbers far more often than a straight bet does, which is what makes the push common enough to matter.
And that is the trap. Teasing through 3 and 7 is the standard piece of football advice, and landing exactly on one of them is the outcome that advice is trying to produce — so the ticket most likely to push is the one you were told to build.
What to do with it. Find the push rule in your operator's teaser terms before building one. It is one sentence and it decides what a winning ticket is worth.
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