Betting limits are lower on propositions, but that is because sportsbooks are a lot less confident on their odds when it comes to props. Like propositions, live betting is an area that sportsbooks have not fully figured out yet.

There can be a lot of mistakes when it comes to live probabilities compared to pre-game markets. Like propositions, live betting or in-play betting forces oddsmakers to adapt on the fly and quickly adjust their odds to the game situations.

Understanding bankroll management and proper staking are vital to your success as a sports bettor. You should find yourself in between those numbers most of the time, with standard plays being around 2 or 2. Bankroll management is a factor that bettors neglect entirely and end up going broke because of it.

Many online gambling sites offer excellent bonuses and great odds for bettors. Right now, we will give you our top two recommendations for online sportsbooks and some of their best promotions and offers.

This is also a cash bonus versus a freeplay bonus which offers bettors more value. Payouts are extremely fast. There is a VIP program and tons of betting options. There is no online sportsbook with a better reputation than Bovada.

Profiting from sports betting is extremely difficult, even if you understand how sports betting works. It takes a serious time commitment and effort even to become a breakeven sports bettor.

However, by following our above tips and sticking with top-rated online betting sites — you are starting your betting career off right.

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This is a hobby that can make you sing a song of joy and weep uncontrollably in the same day. Does that happen in your book club? Does stamp collecting invoke such highs and lows? Does golf? Okay, maybe golf does.

Many gambling books are built on assertions and platitudes, with little backing data. The point of this book is to not only provide you actionable strategies but to also build a foundation for you to find your own. I will help you learn how to interpret the betting market and how to assess betting propositions logically and quantitatively.

I'll help you recognize when a tout is giving you a line of b. can't curse in Dummies books , of which there is far too much of in this arena. Sure, this book has principles and rules of thumb in spades. But I also want to provide you with actionable intelligence.

Gambling has its own private language, and sports betting has a sub-species of gamble-speak. This, more than the underlying concepts, can often be the biggest barrier to transitioning from a fan to a financially interested fan.

Most of it is in Chapter Different parts of the world have different ways of presenting odds to gamblers. I plan on using American odds notation.

The goal of the book is to instill you with the most useful or so pages of information on sports betting. I'm going to promote beginners into functional sports betting dabblers. And I'm going to make knowledgeable gamblers out of dabblers. There are so many sports and so many different kinds of bets out there.

My goal is to focus on the sports you love, on the most accessible analysis methods, and on topics that I believe are the most underserved in libraries and bookstores today. Office pools I will talk about placing bets on the Super Bowl and March Madness, but the focus will be on wagering, not winning goofy office contests.

I can picture you, dear reader, reading this book. It was actually quite easy: When you ordered the book, your Alexa contacted my Alexa and told me everything about you. Research says when it comes to gambling activities, women prefer games based on luck, and men prefer games where skill is involved.

Given how much luck is involved in winning sports bets, you ladies should really give this hobby another look-see.

We could use more gender equality in terms of the bettors and so-called celebrity experts. This book will devote a lot of pages to winning football bets because, well, do we have to keep talking about it? That makes you not only a fan but also a stat connoisseur.

My guess is you get a little frustrated with the over-random nature of fantasy sports, which makes sports betting appealing to you. If you are a regular sports bettor, you are looking for ways to bump up your winning percentage, or maybe you just want to expand your horizons and dig into more detail about sports you might not normally watch or bet on.

The icons are like little signposts to help readers recognize when critical information is about to come their way. Warning There are all kinds of pitfalls when it comes to gambling in general and with sports betting in particular.

Remember This book is full of facts and concepts that you'll want to commit to memory, so you'll see this icon next to those paragraphs.

This book comes with a free online Cheat Sheet that gives you some simple reminders of sports betting tenets, definitions, and even some standard odds you should keep in mind when you bet.

To get this Cheat Sheet, simply go to www. com and enter Sports Betting For Dummies Cheat Sheet in the Search box. If you know the basics but need a little refresher on some of the more advanced concepts related to sports betting, skip ahead to Part 2. If you need a refresher, read up on the most popular bet types so you can bet like a pro in no time.

Get to know the organizations that post the odds and take your bets, and discover how to make your first sports bet. In some ways, sports betting is quite simple. But hidden beneath that easy-to-understand crust is the mantle of harder-to-grasp unpleasant truths. Lots of people lose lots of money at this endeavor.

There are a million ways to bet. Your brain can sometimes be your worst enemy when it comes to betting. And there's the one undeniable truth that is so easy to forget: Teams do wacky, unpredictable things to confound every sensible prediction and make bettors pull their hair out.

That last truth is the first one I want to discuss. It took place in October While the world was busy watching the Berlin Wall fall on CNN, I was doing something far more important: I was an end-of-the-depth-chart player on a football team about to have a slow-motion epiphany.

I was a senior in high school and a proud member of the Grapevine High School varsity football team in Texas.

I was the complete package: slow, weak, undersized, with almost a complete lack of athletic talent. Lucky for everyone involved, the coaches were wise enough to keep me far from the field on gameday. But that gave me a great vantage point for what was about to happen. Coach Snead, who would go on to win two state championships, had been telling us all week that we were better than our record indicated.

We needed the confidence boost because we were about to face the pound gorilla of the district, the Euless Trinity Tigers. Gorilla is an understatement. These guys were King Kong. They kicked our asses every year. In , they were undefeated, well coached, confident, and clearly outmatched us at every position.

Their quarterback was even dating the homecoming queen from our high school. Our goal was to avoid complete embarrassment. But it was Friday the 13th, after all. Strange things happened. On the opening drive of the game, the Trinity quarterback faked a handoff to the dive back, reverse-pivoted on the bootleg and ran smack into not one of our players but the referee, fumbling away the football.

That lucky break was followed by another, and before we knew it, we were ahead. Then the guys actually started to play well — really well. We uncharacteristically caught every ball and made every tackle.

We got every lucky bounce and every lucky call. And when the final whistle blew, we had beaten the gorilla by a gaudy 53—7 score. So we did what teenagers do: We celebrated. Starting with the dogpile on the field at the end of the game, to the bus ride home, into the weekend.

We just finally figured it out, right? We must be way better than we thought we were all along. There were so many broken arms from patting ourselves on the back that the training staff had to order more slings. In our to-7 euphoria, we forgot we had to, you know, show up and play in the last three games of the season.

The cliché fairy summarily revoked our David Beats Goliath status and put us into Chickens Coming Home to Roost mode. We looked like the Bad News Bears from the early part of the movie, not later on when they went to the Astrodome and Walter Mathau starting believing in them.

We were lazy and sloppy in every aspect of the game, just as we had been in practice all week, and lost that game to an inferior opponent. Playoff dream: dashed.

But in retrospect, there was something totally inevitable about that eight-day roller-coaster that ended in that ignominious crash-and-burn. We overlearned from the positive outcome of one week and formed a collective illusion that we could beat anybody without trying. We had just a little less focus in practice than normal.

We were late getting to our spots. We ran a little slower; we cadillacked our way through the toughest drills. My acne-splotched, mullet-topped team in could have won the state championship if we played every game like we did the night of October 13, and with the same level of measurable talent and the same coaches, ten repeats of our October 20 performance would have led to a winless season.

In college, I got interested in sports betting, and I did so with the lessons of October firmly in my mind: Not the lesson where freedom triumphs over tyranny in Eastern Europe, but that talent and measurable attributes only determine part of what happens on the field of play.

They have memories. They have biases. They react to things that happen to them. And while none of those things are easily measurable, they can show up at game time, in the same way that the Grapevine Mustangs reacted to their big win, and lay an egg.

My approach to sports betting is based on the essential premise that people and teams react predictably to events like winning, losing, surprise, disappointment, travel, breaks, and so on. Today more than ever, the truth is out there and only a click or two away. I spent countless hours creating a database of sports scores and statistics from scratch on my ancient computer.

That same information that I painstakingly collected is available today from dozens of web resources. And for the more enthusiastic gamblers, tools are out there to study and bet on any pattern they can dream up.

There are two basic approaches to picking winners: numbers driven, or technical analysis, and information driven, or fundamental analysis. There is no one formula for success. The probabilities associated with cards, dice, and the little bouncing ball on the roulette wheel mean the aggregate outcome is not in doubt.

Narrow your focus to a single lucky person, or a single weekend in Las Vegas, or a crazy craps table, and it seems like there are winners everywhere.

But the math makes it a physical certainty that the more people play, the longer they play, the more certain it is the gamblers are going down. But sports betting is different. The sports bettor reads a menu of available bets at the bookmaker and decides whether or not to risk some of his bankroll on a certain outcome.

Short of doing something the casinos would frown upon, the greatest blackjack, craps, and roulette players in the world will lose money at those games if they played forever. Sports betting is under no such stricture. Unlike table games at the casino, there is no physical or mathematical law that says, without a doubt, you will lose money gambling on sports.

You just might be that unicorn who can spot those Grapevine-beats-Trinity moments better than anyone else in the world. I mean many, many more lose than win. But since there are no mathematical certainties here as there are with cards and dice, we have to get empirical.

First off, I want to make it clear. If you asked 50 people in line at a sports book if they were ahead or behind in their lifetime of sports bets, all 50 would say they were ahead. So simply asking people to self-report results is a nonstarter when it comes to sports books.

Research on data pulled from a prominent European sports book a few years ago showed that only 10 to 15 percent of bettors were ahead a year after making their first deposit. A big swathe of people had lost a little, and there was a long tail of people who had lost their initial deposit plus money from subsequent deposits.

Another source of data is tightly controlled sports betting contests, where entrants must make regular picks on sports events as if they were bets. Have you ever tracked sports writers in a newspaper picking weekly games?

In spite of being plugged into sports news, of the eight pickers in The Dallas Morning News, only a few were above 50 percent, and only a single sports writer was in profitable territory north of Maybe 15 percent is accurate after all.

Another example is the world-famous Station Casinos SuperContest Gold. Each contestant has to make five NFL picks every week against a menu of standard odds. In the — contest, there were 42 contestants who would have showed a profit if they had been betting an even amount on each game.

These contest results should tell you a few things: First, the contest winner picked games at a seemingly modest 61 percent. So set aside your delusions of grandeur. The luckiest, most talented pickers barely sniff the 60s.

Second, the combined average of these plus bettors was about 48 percent winners. So you might take heart in the fact that one-third of these contestants were able to pick profitably. Winning is within the grasp of a bettor who is willing and able to put the time in. Tip Pro gamblers will tell you that 55 percent wins is the day-job line.

If you can beat 55 percent on a year-in, year-out basis, you can quit your day job in favor of sports betting. Sounds great right? Unfortunately, the odds are against you.

It takes dedication to the craft and special talent to get to that level. The sweet spot between In a landmark decision in , the U.

Supreme Court finally released Americans from the shackles of earlier legal decisions that prevented them legally from doing something that is so common and comfortable that millions of us were already doing it.

I'm not exaggerating about that number. If you count fantasy sports and office pools, there are tens of millions of people who have money riding on the outcome of an athletic event. But for the majority of people who partake, betting on sports is not only fun and entertaining, but it borders on the sublime.

Athletic competition and gambling are practically written into our DNA. For students of American history, the banning and subsequent unbanning of sports betting has echoes of the Volstead Act and the Prohibition Era. Nobody would claim alcohol consumption is good for your health, but to suddenly disallow a habit already so, er, engrained, in so many millions of people looks in retrospect to be ludicrous.

At the same time, that instinctive drive to bet as an enjoyment multiplier leads many people to bet from the hip. Betting instinctively certainly has its place. You might win; you might not. You know how it works: As with any hobby, the vocabulary you use is a passport to respectability.

Remember Your first lesson in lingo is a pair of terms: sharp and square. Both words serve as both nouns and adjectives.

A sharp is an experienced, discriminating sports bettor who wins money in the long run. And no, a square is not the only person at the high school party who refuses to break the rules for fear of getting caught.

In this world, a square is an average member of the betting public. Most people are squares. Being square also means that you not only are ignorant of but you also misinterpret and misunderstand key concepts in sports betting — to the detriment of your bank account.

Squares have degree angles. I hit my head on the corner of a square table when I was a kid and it felt pretty sharp to me. In Figure , I attempted a Venn diagram of the betting population, but instead of circles and ellipses I used squares and triangles as an attempt to match the terminology.

Bettors who know the word will always claim to be sharp. Nobody claims to be a square, and many more claim to be sharp than actually could possibly show a long-term winning record. Forget sharp and square. I want you to get better at betting and to have fun.

Somewhere along the continuum of betting skill and knowledge, a person moves from complete ignorance to a level of dangerous knowledge where you think you know more than you do and probably risk more than you should.

The pros know more than is teachable in a book. In between squares and full-on professionals is the territory you should target. Being an advantage bettor is a reasonable goal for a reader of this book. Imagine a game where you and a friend are betting on the outcome of a coin flip.

You could theoretically play forever, right? No gain, and no pain. I talk more about calculating odds later, but on any bet, your expected return is the sum of the outcomes multiplied by their probabilities.

In the coin flip game, it should be intuitive that your expected rate of return is 0, but just to show the work:. When you place a bet with a bookmaker, that bookmaker charges a commission that varies depending on the bet and the bookmaker that reduces the amount of your winning payout.

A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or individual legally sanctioned or not that accepts bets on sporting events. Bettors make a bet by staking cash or credit on a certain outcome, and are given a virtual or paper ticket receipt that describes the wager and the payout.

In the event their bet wins, they exchange the ticket for the bet payoff. Remember On average, a bookmaker keeps 1 cent for every 22 cents wagered: a 4.

If you were to make your coin flip bet at a bookmaker, the terms would be altered slightly to your distinct disadvantage. Even if the coin is fair, the game is now tilted against you.

You select which bets to make and which to pass on. The bookie, as a rule, has a stake on every game. But the bettor gets to pick and choose. With a 4. I like to think of the number. Remember those newspaper writers from The Dallas Morning News earlier in this chapter?

Six of the eight writers picked north of 50 percent but less than But that analogy should end at edge of the casino floor. Warning Break-even bettors have to win Professional sports bettors would be thrilled if they could win a mere 56 or 57 percent of their bets in the long run.

The point is, look at how thin the margin is between a victory and defeat: A break-even bettor and a dart-throwing square bettor are perilously close in terms of wins and losses. Over the course of a year, the square is slowly going broke, averaging 3 wins and 3 losses per week.

To be a break-even bettor, the square need only convert one betting week out of every 6 from 3 wins and 3 losses to 4 wins and 2 losses.

That means winning just one additional bet for every 36 placed! Giving you the tools to raise your winning percentage a few points seems like a reasonable goal for this book.

Of course, another thing you probably infer from having such thin margins between success and oblivion is that these results play out over a very long time scale. If you wager on a favorite, then you will win less than with a point spread, but if you wager on the underdog…and win…you will receive an even greater win amount due to the higher risk.

Standard questions, and great questions for new sports bettors to ask! For reading the fraction odds , I strongly recommend converting them to a decimal. This will make figuring out your potential win much much easier! To do this, just like in 2nd grade, you take the first number and divide it by the second.

That is the decimal form odds , now you simply multiply 1. Now for American Style Sports Odds. Typically, when you are betting on the point spread, as in topic 1 above, the odds are displayed or implied to be , which is known as American Style odds.

Now that you have the basics down, there is something left to discuss — where to bet online that is safe. I strongly recommend that you start by wagering on only one pick per day. If you bet that way, you will surely get nickel and dimed out of your bankroll.

Spend time studying the teams and choose your best selection available. Decide on a budget of how much you are willing to risk. Now you need a reputable online sportsbook online sports betting site to do business.

There are millions of sites out there, but only a handful that will treat you right. I deal with a few main sites in my personal online sports betting, Bovada , BetOnline , BookMaker , and MyBookie.

Check these sites out and see which one fits you best. Maybe you will take advantage of the bonuses at those sites and then decide which one you want to continue to use. I prefer to use multiple sites, so I have a selection of lines to choose from to get the best available payout!

If you want more details and options, just go to the sportsbook reviews and ratings page. You can place individual wagers on just one team or total.

Another option is to package of them together with a single wager amount. That is known as a parlay bet! The advantage of a parlay wager is the compounding of the odds.

Say you choose 3 bets to parlay and they all have decimal odds of 2.

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Sports betting for dummies - From how to read odds to identifying value bets our sports betting for dummies guide teaches you all you need to know about sports betting To beginners, sports betting can feel at best overwhelming and at worst rigged against you. Not a great place to start a new hobby Some states that have legalized sports betting allow their sports books to offer an online betting app as well. Dummies and Sports Betting For Sports Betting For Dummies will cover the basics, as well as delving into more nuanced topics. You'll find all the need-to-know information on types of bets

We will go over them briefly, but honestly, each betting type deserves a more profound explanation but understanding different betting types is the key to gambling on sports. This allows bettors to wager if the number of points scored will go over or under a specific number.

Of course, there are many other wagers, such as parlays, teasers, futures, propositions, and more. And, most of these betting markets are available for live betting, as well. Learning how to bet on sports as in what bet pays what and the different available markets is one of the easiest aspects of wagering on sports.

Getting started in sports betting can be tricky , but there are a few tips that can immediately put you ahead of the pack when learning sports betting.

Bettors have so many excellent options for wagering on sports that they can easily get thousands of dollars in free play or bonus offers when they sign up at online sports betting sites.

These bonuses come with rollovers an amount you need to bet before you can withdraw any winnings but still offer plenty of value to bettors. Bonus offers are the best way to inject your bankroll with instant cash, which is vital for bettors that are just beginning to bet on sports.

Odds boosts or promotional odds on many different events are now available every day at many major online sportsbooks. These appear every day at various sportsbooks and are an excellent way to build your bankroll.

One of the biggest mistakes new bettors make is thinking that sports betting is a get-rich-quick scheme. The reality is that it is a massive grind. Sportsbooks publish news stories about players hitting massive parlays because if all their customers keep betting parlays, they will have no trouble filling up their balance sheets with more profits.

The truth is, straight wagers have much smaller for sportsbooks compared to parlays, teasers, and many other exotics. This knowledge should be sports betting , but in fact, it seems as if bettors do the opposite. Their betting slips are full of 10 team parlays rather than straight wagers on markets that offer value.

There are no successful sports bettors that just use one sportsbook. Not only is using multiple sportsbooks going to get you access to more odds and markets, but you will be able to receive deposit bonuses, reload bonuses, and take advantage of odds boosts. Having access to more odds allows you to line shop and get the best price you can on your wagers.

It also allows you to utilize different types of sportsbooks, such as reduced juice, another geared towards recreational bettors, and one geared more towards professional bettors or market makers with higher limits.

This will move you past the sports betting for dummies phase and into learning sports handicapping properly, and hopefully, growing your bankroll along the way.

One of the areas that sportsbooks are the weakest is proposition bets. Sports betting odds consist of two major aspects. First, they show the possibility of an outcome occurring in a game or event.

This figure you eventually see on the sportsbook as odds is based on probability and shows you the chances the sportsbook believes a bet has of winning. Secondly, sports betting odds will show the amount a bettor has to wager to make a profit.

Sportsbooks try to keep both sides as even as possible. Not only will this save them from losing a bunch of money, but it guarantees that there is action on all lines, and anyone who wins can get a payout. Vigorish goes by many names, including vig or juice. It is the amount the sportsbook charges when you place a wager.

You can also see it as the percentage the betting site keeps for using its services. Ideally, you want to go for a sportsbook with a lower vig since it means you keep more of your winnings to yourself.

But sportsbooks operate differently. This is known as the vig or juice. As mentioned earlier, betting odds come in three major formats: American, fractional, and decimal.

While our focus will be on American odds, we'll still briefly examine the other odds formats. Keep reading to learn more about the different betting odds to better understand them.

For example, let's say the odds are Read and learn more about how to bet on NFL Football. Sportsbooks do this to discourage bettors from betting much on the favorite. For example, let's say the Browns are in the Super Bowl and projected to win with odds of On the other hand, this juice or vig could also encourage bettors to bet more if the plus side is higher.

It's not hard to understand, but you'll want to ensure you're looking at the odds correctly to ensure you're not going to lose a bunch of money! Round Robin Betting Guide.

The decimal odds are popular across Asia and Europe but have grown in popularity in U. sportsbooks due to their ease of use. Here, odds are indicated in decimals, showing you how much you'll win for every unit you stake.

Decimal odds are relatively easy to understand. For instance, say you have odds of 5. Note that, unlike American odds, the payout in decimal odds also includes your original wager. Fractional odds are most common in the U. and are represented as fractions. These are also very easy to understand, as the number above or the left numerator is how much you'll win when you wager the denominator number below or by the right.

Fractional or decimal odds both help calculate implied probability as it relates to the betting line. Many sports use online sports betting odds based on a variety of factors. These are called odds-on and turn everything around.

The good thing about online sportsbooks is that most will show you the possible win. This means you won't have to do the math because the computer will do it for you.

If you're new to sports betting, understanding the odds helps you determine how much you would win on the games you're betting. Implied probability is the expected possibility of an outcome occurring as established by bookmakers. This figure is then indicated as a percentage after converting the odds.

You'll need to convert odds to implied probability to determine how much you can get from a wager. Converting odds to probability is not straightforward, but you must learn how to go about it, especially if you want to be an avid sports bettor and prevent losses.

Below, we'll look into how to convert the three types of odds into implied probability. Remember that American odds feature underdogs and favorites. You'll need to implement different equations for each, which we have listed below:. The first step is to add the two percentages:.

Now subtract from the total - This is a very reasonable juice since as a bettor who wants to make a profit, you'll want to aim for one that's as little as possible. That way, you can keep most of your earnings to yourself. Sometimes, a sportsbook may offer odds that you are not comfortable with.

Fortunately, we can convert these odds simply using our free betting calculator. But if you prefer to do math, we'll show you how to convert each type of betting odds in this section.

You can convert both positive and negative American odds to decimal odds. You'd plug your numbers in; the equation should look like the one below. Converting decimal odds is easy. However, the formula differs depending on the value of the odds.

If the decimal odds is greater than or equal to 2 American odds, you'll need to follow this formula:. If they are greater than this value, use this formula:. We're now offering the best sports picks across every major matchup with Edge, our A. Sports Betting system.

Perfect for those looking to boost their bankroll with the help of automated picks generated with an industry-leading algorithm, this artificial intelligence prediction system provides confidence scores for every pick. For students of American history, the banning and subsequent unbanning of sports betting has echoes of the Volstead Act and the Prohibition Era.

Nobody would claim alcohol consumption is good for your health, but to suddenly disallow a habit already so, er, engrained, in so many millions of people looks in retrospect to be ludicrous. At the same time, that instinctive drive to bet as an enjoyment multiplier leads many people to bet from the hip.

Betting instinctively certainly has its place. You might win; you might not. You know how it works: As with any hobby, the vocabulary you use is a passport to respectability. Remember Your first lesson in lingo is a pair of terms: sharp and square.

Both words serve as both nouns and adjectives. A sharp is an experienced, discriminating sports bettor who wins money in the long run. And no, a square is not the only person at the high school party who refuses to break the rules for fear of getting caught.

In this world, a square is an average member of the betting public. Most people are squares. Being square also means that you not only are ignorant of but you also misinterpret and misunderstand key concepts in sports betting — to the detriment of your bank account.

Squares have degree angles. I hit my head on the corner of a square table when I was a kid and it felt pretty sharp to me. In Figure , I attempted a Venn diagram of the betting population, but instead of circles and ellipses I used squares and triangles as an attempt to match the terminology.

Bettors who know the word will always claim to be sharp. Nobody claims to be a square, and many more claim to be sharp than actually could possibly show a long-term winning record. Forget sharp and square. I want you to get better at betting and to have fun.

Somewhere along the continuum of betting skill and knowledge, a person moves from complete ignorance to a level of dangerous knowledge where you think you know more than you do and probably risk more than you should.

The pros know more than is teachable in a book. In between squares and full-on professionals is the territory you should target. Being an advantage bettor is a reasonable goal for a reader of this book. Imagine a game where you and a friend are betting on the outcome of a coin flip.

You could theoretically play forever, right? No gain, and no pain. I talk more about calculating odds later, but on any bet, your expected return is the sum of the outcomes multiplied by their probabilities. In the coin flip game, it should be intuitive that your expected rate of return is 0, but just to show the work:.

When you place a bet with a bookmaker, that bookmaker charges a commission that varies depending on the bet and the bookmaker that reduces the amount of your winning payout. A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or individual legally sanctioned or not that accepts bets on sporting events.

Bettors make a bet by staking cash or credit on a certain outcome, and are given a virtual or paper ticket receipt that describes the wager and the payout. In the event their bet wins, they exchange the ticket for the bet payoff.

Remember On average, a bookmaker keeps 1 cent for every 22 cents wagered: a 4. If you were to make your coin flip bet at a bookmaker, the terms would be altered slightly to your distinct disadvantage. Even if the coin is fair, the game is now tilted against you.

You select which bets to make and which to pass on. The bookie, as a rule, has a stake on every game. But the bettor gets to pick and choose. With a 4. I like to think of the number. Remember those newspaper writers from The Dallas Morning News earlier in this chapter? Six of the eight writers picked north of 50 percent but less than But that analogy should end at edge of the casino floor.

Warning Break-even bettors have to win Professional sports bettors would be thrilled if they could win a mere 56 or 57 percent of their bets in the long run.

The point is, look at how thin the margin is between a victory and defeat: A break-even bettor and a dart-throwing square bettor are perilously close in terms of wins and losses. Over the course of a year, the square is slowly going broke, averaging 3 wins and 3 losses per week. To be a break-even bettor, the square need only convert one betting week out of every 6 from 3 wins and 3 losses to 4 wins and 2 losses.

That means winning just one additional bet for every 36 placed! Giving you the tools to raise your winning percentage a few points seems like a reasonable goal for this book. Of course, another thing you probably infer from having such thin margins between success and oblivion is that these results play out over a very long time scale.

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