Sunday, September 19, 2010

NCAA Betting Tips and Strategies

There are many ways to have success in NCAA Football Betting. One of the most important keys is consistency. If you are trying new things over and over, with little reason or strategies, you will be doomed to chasing your money as you risk it. Calm and cool are the way to approach this process. Use all the information at your fingertips. The Internet is full of tips and ideas that will help you. Gut instinct is not the way to go in football betting. Research and statistics are what need to be making your decisions in football betting.

These are a few tips that come in handy when betting on NCAA football. Also, these tips guarantee success:

1. Research- this is a very important part of betting as mentioned above. A thorough research on the teams as well as the players is necessary. Most of the bettor who played blind, that is without research has ended up in huge debts.

2. Overload: this perhaps the best tip for amateurs who love to bet. Never overdo it. Restrict yourself to a few bets a week and see the wonder. Excessive betting may lead you into heavy debts. Play games with a lot of research and increase your winning chances and marginal profit.

3. Right Sports books: the new players are at a disadvantage here since they are not very sure about which sports book to bet with. Also, there are numerous lines to bet on. A player should have a minimum of three accounts with different sports books to increase the range of winning.

Once, these tips and research knowledge is complete, it time to set the cash registers ringing! Happy betting!

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Hockey Betting Tips, Advice and Odds

Russian sniper Ilya Kovalchuk, a player with over 600 career NHL points, was supposed to be the biggest prize during free agency, so the NHL betting world was convinced that the sport’s highest priced free agent would instantly be snatched up. However, after long negotiations with a few teams, the top scorer hasn’t landed anywhere as of yet.

It’s been a long and drawn out saga with Kovalchuk. He’s been reportedly in negotiations with the Devils and Kings, both of whom have been in and out of the picture so far. Kovalchuk has also been offered a contract to play for a KHL team in Russia as well.

Now the Kings are looking to have a clear shot at landing the high-priced talent. Negotiations have been rocky at best, with the team openly bowing out and then re-entering talks a couple of times. The problem appears to be all about money. Kovalchuk is trying to get a max deal for as long as possible, while the Kings are trying to work him in comfortably under the salary cap. As for the Devils, all has been quiet on their front. New Jersey seems out of the running for now, but nothing’s a guarantee in this bizarre circumstance.

Sports Betting features odds on both the Devils and Kings winning the Stanley Cup. Hockey betting enthusiasts can take New Jersey to win the NHL title at 16 to 1 and the Kings at 15 to 1. Clearly, whichever team that lands him will have its odds lowered.

In terms of other teams in the running for Kovalchuk’s services, only the Islanders and Flyers have been mentioned more than once or twice. It’s widely believed Kovy won’t sign with the Islanders because of its lack of contention ability right away. Meanwhile, Philly would have to create some salary space in order to accommodate the star forward.

So right now, it's looking good for LA.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sport Gambling and Where It Started

http://tradeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sport-betting.jpg Sports betting is considered to be a form of gambling. Billions of dollars circulated in sports betting industry annually. Great sporting competitions (for example, the World Series and the Super Bowl) attract millions of bettors which leads to billions of dollars in bets.

Since the appearance of first sports, there have been people who were eager to wager on the results of games. At first, people used to bet at horse races or cockfights. It was not only the way of getting some money but the way of entertainment as well.


The beginning of sports betting


What concerns the first steps of bookmaking, in particular, sports betting, one should recall horse racing which was very popular at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. But at that time racing was enjoyed mainly by the upper crust of the society. But step by step horse tracks began to appear everywhere and bettors from all classes crowded the racecourses.


At first, bookmakers used to make bets for each horse separately. But this format didn’t stay long as bettors were short of luck if the horse they wanted to bet on had already been taken. The bookmakers soon understood that if someone set odds on single horses it would blow up betting handle and, as a result, their own money. As soon as there were too many bets on one horse, the bookmaker used to lower the odds to warm up the attraction of other horses in that race. In some parts of the world bookmakers still make use of this scheme though horse racing is not very popular at present.


At the end of the 18th century baseball started to come in and the new type of betting – betting on sport – appeared. Baseball 'pool-cards' reminded present-day parlay cards. Bettors had a wide choice of baseball betting options. The min bet was 10 cents. But there was one problem – a bettor had no chance to win a lot as the odds were calculated in favor of the bookmaker. But it didn’t stop the spreading of bookmaker’s houses.

Football and Football Bets – How It Started

http://big12today.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/football_betting_385x2611.jpgThis sport was created in the United States and is known as football, it is a team sport where points are scored by advancing the ball, either by running or passing the ball, into the other team’s end zone or kicking field goals. The sport started from rugby football and is now played in high school, collegiately, and professionally (the National Football League).

How it started

American football made it’s start from early versions of rugby football, with rule changes by the Walter Camp, when the line of scrimmage and downs were implemented into the game. Then in the 19th and 20th centuries the sport developed even more with input from Glenn “Pop” Warner, Knute Rockne, Eddie Cochems, and Amos Alonzo Stagg where they started the forward pass.


Rutgers and Princeton University in 1873 played the first game of collegiate football, but in the first game the first team to score six goals was the winner and Rutgers beat Princeton six to four. With this first collegiate football game started a huge following. College football became a dominant sport and with the addition of Bowl games it attracted more fans and audiences throughout the centuries.


Professional American football was started in 1892 when the Pittsburgh Athletic Club played Allegheny Athletic Association and the first pro football championship match was played between the Buffalo Prospects and the Canton Bulldogs. Then in 1920 the American Professional Football Association was created and then its name was changed to National Football League (NFL) two years later. As American football became increasingly popular another professional league was created, the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. Eventually pressure was put on both leagues to combine and the creation of the Super Bowl was introduced.


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Sport Betting System

http://www.footballgambling.us/images/sports_gambling/sports_gambling_250x251.jpgAt present, depending on different sports several systems for betting exist in the world. You can also find different systems for one and the same sport. Before understanding any of them, one should get acquainted with the main terms and notions of sports betting . Action is the process of betting.


To handicap means to provide one team with some sort of advantage so that to even up the betting odds.


The handle is the sum total of money involved on bets.


A sportsbook is a special house which accepts bets (also called ‘a book’). A bookie is a person who takes bets.


Juice (vigorish, vig) is the bookie’s profit expressed in the percentage from all the bets taken. Mainly, juice is calculated from the odds but in some bookmaking houses it is a fixed percentage.


The term ‘spread’ is widely used in such sports like football and basketball. It is a sort of handicap whose main aim is to level all games and make them competitive for bettors. The spread provides a few-point advantage to one team over the other. As a rule, the point spread is presented in the form of a formula where the odds-on favourite team goes first with a negative number (called ‘actual spread’). The host team is usually written in capital letters. For example, if Manchester United were playing against Aston Villa in Aston Villa, it would be stated like this: “Manchester United -5; ASTON VILLA”. It means the following: if you bet on United, the team should win with more than 5 points in order the bet to be paid off. Aston Villa gets an advantage of 5 points before the game.


The money line is used in sports (such as baseball) where scoring isn't very high and the point spread is out of advantage. For example, this money line formula can have the following look:


TIGERS -1.20; Astros +1.10


In some bookmarking houses the decimal point is omitted, it means 120 is equal to 1.20.


If you want to place your bet on the team which is considered a favorite (in our example, Tigers), you need to bet $1.40 for every dollar you’d like to win. If you want to bet on the other team which is very often appears a loser (in our example, Astros), you need to bet $1 for every $1.10 you would like to win. It is called ‘the dime line’(10 cents are between the favorite and the underdog).


Pick'em is another name for money line games when two teams are neck and neck and the line on both teams is -1.10. You need to bet $1.10 for every dollar you want to win. A Parlay is a complex bet when you make only one bet for five different sports games instead of five bets. If one game is lost, the parlay is lost, too. But the pay-off is much higher in parlays.

 
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