Betting guide

Every team takes time off now and again as a result of scheduling.  In the NFL and college football, for example, this is known as a “bye week.”  In other sports, teams take time off as well.  Time off is one of the many factors which can have an impact on team form and player form, so it is something that you are going to want to pay close attention to when you are betting online on sports.

You would think that betting on boxing would be simple—that it couldn’t get any simpler.  Two men walk into a ring and start throwing punches.  Eventually, one of them will beat the other.  How could betting on that be complicated?  All too often, though, the decisions made in boxing matches come from the judges.  Not all fights are won through knockouts.  Many are decided based on points.  Still others are decided by factors that sadly have nothing to do with the skill of the fighters.  I will talk more about that in just a moment.

Maybe you have only ever placed wagers online, or perhaps you have only ever dealt with local bookies in the past.  Either way, if you are thinking about trying something new, you may wonder about the differences between betting online and betting offline.  What are the unique considerations?  What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each? 

If you have decided to take betting seriously and learn it as a real trade, congratulations on making a challenging commitment.  It is not easy to learn how to bet as well as the sharps, but if you are determined, someday you can become a professional sports gambler.  One of your first steps is to gather resources and learn as much as you can about the sports you will bet on as well as betting techniques, odds, statistics, and mathematics.  Where can you find free and paid resources to get started?

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We often think in terms of productivity quotas, especially when it comes to making money.  Sports betting is not a gig that pays hourly; it pays based on how many bets you actually win.  You may even have already sat down and crunched numbers and determined that you would need to place X bets a year at your current win percentage to make X amount of money.

Recently, I wrote about the reasons you should consider watching the sports you bet on.  A lot of punters skip watching games, or do not watch them regularly.  Often this is because of time constraints or laziness.  There are a few good reasons to consider skipping the games, but there are also a lot of great advantages to watching.  When you watch games, you:

You do not have to watch the sports you bet on.  In fact, the very first thing I want to say about this is that some punters actually do better if they avoid watching the games they bet on.  There are some drawbacks to watching games, and certain personality types can be tempted to go on tilt.  Watching games has a number of benefits, however, and can really help you to develop your skills and betting strategies.  Note that you may decide to watch the games you are betting on, but you may decide to forego that and still watch ga

One type of football wager which betting sites love is a scorecast bet.  Why?  Because scorecast bets are very hard to win!  A scorecast bet is essentially two bets combined into one, making it a form of accumulator.  You are betting on which player will score the first goal in the match (a First Goal Scorer bet, abbreviated FGS).  But that is only half the equation.  You are also betting on what the result of the match will be.  In order to count, both

If you are new to sports betting, or even if you have been betting for a while, you may wonder whether it is possible to quit your day job someday and wager full-time on the sporting events you love.  You probably have at least heard of full-time gamblers who make a comfortable or even lucrative living off of sports betting, but odds are you probably haven’t encountered too many.  What you have likely run into are many other punters struggling like you to pull it together and start making a profit.

If you are getting into online football betting, you have probably discovered that one popular type of bet is the Over/Under wager.  What is Over/Under betting?  With this type of wager, a “goal-line” is established before a match.  The goal-line is simply the total number of goals that handicappers and bookies believe will be scored during a match.  Generally this includes the normal 90 minutes as well as injury time, but not extra-times (ET).