Free Advice and Strategies for Betting on Sports
These tips, strategies and situation articles are designed to teach you how to think like a professional sports bettor. They will help you avoid many of the pitfalls and mistakes the average sports bettor makes time and time again. These articles are to help you become a more educated sports bettor and grow your return on investment.
Betting Favorites Early, Underdogs Wait Middle Possible
This is a simple strategy to use in any sport. Lines are often made right away after a team's last game is played. Say the line opens up -3 for the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, well the Cowboys are a public betting team and if you like them against the spread the next week you should take that line ASAP because once Sunday comes around it could be at -4 or -4.5 and your [...]
Reverse Line Movement
This is a must for every handicapper to know. If you notice here on vegasinsider.com they have bet percentages there on moneyline, spread and OVER/UNDER for each sport. They have what the line for the game opened at and what the current line is at. What to look for is: for instance the Heat open at -7 for the game and there is 74% of the betting market on them but the line went from [...]
Shopping Around for the Best Odds
Like anything in this world, shopping around for the best available line is another important tool to add to your sports betting tool box. Different sportsbooks will have different odds on the same game, so depending on what side you like it's important for you to get the best bang for your buck. When looking to make bets, it's best to have at least two or three different sportsbooks where you can make bets. I [...]
Analyzing Line Movement: Important Tool for Finding Winners
When you begin you sports betting career you should think of the handicapping process (breaking down games/lines) a job you need to have the right "tools" for. One of the most important tools to have is learning how to successfully watch the lines (odds) move throughout the day and up until game time. You can get the answer (correct wager) by doing this and cross-referencing it with applicable trends and situations to get you to [...]
Bankroll Management: Discipline is the Key
Percentage-Based Wagering Sports betting can be a profitable business and/or recreational past time as long as you remember and adhere to strict bankroll management guidelines. There have been many good handicappers that pick winners throughout the numerous sports that end up going bust and giving up because they used poor money management. No matter how much you like a certain play on a given day, you should not be putting 30, 40, 50 or dare [...]
Profitable NFL Betting Situations
Here are some things to keep in mind when you are going through the weekly NFL schedule. 1: Look-ahead spots - Fade teams in these spots. With one game a week and a schedule mixed with very tough rivalry games and others against the bottom feeders of the league, situations pop up every week where you can figure out if a team is looking past a weaker opponent and ahead to a huge game (could [...]