Sports Betting For Winners: 3 Winning Methods That Can Improve Your Sports Betting Winnings

There is no doubt that at one time or another you have bet on your favorite basketball, hockey or soccer team, or the favorite in a horse race, or any other sporting event, but how do you know for sure who is going to win If you can predict the winner, with a high degree of accuracy, you can win money; It’s that easy.

Let’s face it, the reason you do this is that you want to end up with more money than when you started. You think you can predict the winners more accurately than the bookies, but how often are you right?

Well, the 3 sports betting strategies below could give you an edge the next time you place a bet on your chosen sport. These 3 options, used correctly, can make the difference between you walking away with a profit and it being just another wasted bet that helps finance the bookies next holiday abroad.

asian handicap

This is a rarely used, but very useful addition to your sports betting techniques. There are generally 3 possible outcomes in a sporting event for any player or team; win, lose or tie. Using an Asian handicap it is possible to reduce the number of outcomes to just 2.

Suppose we are watching a football match. The bookmaker may quote a handicap line in which team A starts the game with an early lead of 1.5 goals and team B starts with a -1.5 goal handicap. Now, since we cannot get 0.5 goals, there can only be 2 results and the odds are established taking into account the handicap.

If you think team A will win, and as long as they win, tie, or at least don’t lose by more than one goal, you win because they had an early lead of 1.5 goals. Similarly, if you think Team B will win, you need to beat their -1.5 goal handicap. So, they need to win by 2 goals or more.

In sports where the handicap can be evened, for example in basketball, where a team can be given a 20 point start, bets will usually be returned if there is a tie. However, it is better to check with your local bookmaker. In this case you may not win, but you may not lose either.

Arbitration

Means to buy and sell for profit, taking advantage of price variations in different markets. This is the holy grail of sports betting, as you can literally find yourself in the situation that whoever wins a match, you still benefit from the result.

In practice, this used to be very difficult to do, as it meant following a wide range of market prices at the same time. However, with the advent of the Internet this is now much easier. As bookmakers often have very different opinions on the outcome of a sporting event and also advertise their prices on their websites, we can quickly compare these prices.

If we can find a situation where Bookmaker A has a better price for one team/player and Bookmaker B has a better price for their opponent, we can back both teams with the respective Bookmakers and make money. whatever the result.

bet on

As any sporting match or event begins to unfold, the odds quoted at the start of the event may seem out of line with what you are witnessing on the field of play. I wish you could place a bet knowing how the match unfolds. Well, with “running bet” that’s exactly what you can do.

Many bookies will change the event odds as the action unfolds and you can place a bet using these ‘new’ odds. If Team A scores, that team’s odds of winning will be lowered and then Team B’s odds of winning will be higher. If you still believe that Team B will ultimately succeed, then these higher odds are your chance to place a bet with better (for yourself) odds. Usually the bookmaker’s own website will tell you which events are offered as “running”.