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Written by Mihaela Florea
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Friday, 20 August 2010 13:51 |
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There are people who place sports bets because they are fans of the team or athlete while others bet just for fun. The smallest category of bettors is the one composed of people who bet for a living. They are not many, but they can make a lot of money.
The best part of betting is that these days, thanks to the internet, you can bet any time, with just one click, on any sports competition. There are just few large, international sports events each year, while the biggest ones like the Olympics, World Cup and European Championship take place every few years. On the other hand you can find small sports competition to bet on all the time. |
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Written by Mihaela Florea
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:46 |
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More and more sports fans start to bet online. Some of them do it for passion for a sport, some of them bet on sports just for fun while others, fewest, do it for money. It’s not easy to win serious amounts of money just from predicting sports results but is possible. On the other hand, the amateurs that do it for fun or passion are preferred by the bookmakers because they usually lose.
There are some guide lines that can help amateurs to lose less money or even to start winning money by doing what they really like. Here are some of them: |
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Written by Mihaela Florea
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Monday, 17 May 2010 10:45 |
Sports betting fans today can take advantage of some seriously powerful tools to get live sports and live soccer scores, as well as using odds comparison sites to get the best odds when they place a bet on soccer, tennis, NFL, basketball, f1 and more. Long gone are the days of having to study newspapers and sports publications to gather your intel before placing a wager online. These days, technology allows application and website creators to provide users with powerful analytical tools which can analyse sports data to identify trends and display the data in useful ways to people wishing to bet on sports. Top Sports Betting Tools If you are serious about betting on sports online, you should invest some time to check out some of the power tools used by professional bettors. These include: - Odds Comparison - These tools let you see upcoming sporting events and get the best head to head odds on the market, by checking the odds in realtime with the top online bookmakers - saving the user a lot of logging in to different sites to check odds.
- Soccer Scores - Live football results are essential as betting in play is available on a number of betting sites and betting exchanges (e.g. Betfair).
- Free Bets - When you join most online bookmakers, they provide all new customers with a free bet or a bunch of free bets. You will have to place a few wagers, but you are getting some free bets too, so this saves you money in the long run.
Other interesting tools include arbitrage tools which show punters bets which they cannot lose on (by exploiting market differentials), however these tools are not guaranteed to work due to caps placed on some bettors accounts by bookmakers (to minimise the odds for the "wiseguys"). |
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Written by Mihaela Florea
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Monday, 30 November 2009 21:05 |
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Sports betting in not a game of luck but a game of skill. The bettor must gather as much information as he can and analyze it very well. He should determine the probabilities of each team or competitor to win and after that to compare it to the bookmaker odds. If the punter makes the correct decision he wins.
Although the skill has the biggest role in the sports betting outcome, luck can influence the outcome of any single games. The luck, or better said, the bad luck will surely go against the punter on several occasions, but on the long run it will balance out. |
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