• Top Online Bookmakers

    Betting

    When it comes to online sports betting, picking the best — and only the best — bookmakers is must. You would want to have good odds, swift customer support and bet placement mechanism, and of course a financially solid backings to enable fast withdrawal. These are the three main qualities you should look from an online bookie. If you are new to online sports betting and you want to start right away, here are a couple of bookmakers you can use.

    William Hill is a recognizable name in the world of online casinos and sports betting. If you are a new bettor, you should visit William Hill’s sports betting section first. Enjoy the available £25 free bets to test the water without risking any of you real money.

    Next on our list, we have 888Sport. The site also offers free bets worth £50 for new users. The one thing you would love about 888Sport is the ease of use. You can easily and quickly place bets with them even when you have no experience with online sports betting.

    For the largest amount of free bets being offered, Bet365 is the site you should visit. Bet365 is offering new users £200 worth of free bets; that is one big money-making opportunity with literally zero risk right there.

    Don’t forget to check out Ladbrokes for its fixed odds. You can learn to calculate odds and develop your own betting system while placing bets with Ladbrokes. They are definitely among the most reliable bookmakers available online.

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  • What is the Parlay Betting Strategy?

    General

    Parlay betting is betting on a number of independent events such as football matches where the earnings from the first bet are automatically bet on the second event. Another name for parlay bets is accumulators. For instance, if you bet on a simple parley £1 that team A wins at 3/1 and on that team B wins at 2/1, then following a successful outcome for team A, your original stake plus your winnings (a total of £4) is placed on team B and if that wins then you collect £12 which is not a bat return for a simple £1 bet.

    Of course parlays can include far more than just 2 events; any number of events is a possibility. The more events there are the more you will win if successful, but your chances of doing so are reduced considerably by each additional leg.

    There are a number of parlay strategies you can use to improve your chances of winning and one is hedging your bet. Say that you have placed a four leg parlay at odds of leg 1: 3/1; leg 2: 4/1; leg 3: 5/1; leg 4: 4/1. Your stake is £1.0 and you win legs 1, 2 and 3. So far you potential return is the £4.0 from leg 1 which is converted to £20 on leg 2 which is then converted to £120 on leg 3. Now you might be getting a little jumpy that on leg 4 you could lose all of that money. What you could do is visit a betting exchange such as Betfair and hedge your final bet by laying a bet against it thus reducing your risk but of course also reducing your potential winnings.

    Another very interesting parlay strategy is to find events that have a degree of dependency. For instance, consider the group stages of the World Cup. Although there is not a physical or mathematical dependency between the games, there might be a psychological dependency. For instance it could be that if team A lost a match, then team B would qualify if it won their next match. But if team A won, then team B would be eliminated whether they won or lost. If you bet a parlay on team A winning and team B losing or team A losing and team B winning, then you would be leveraging the likely situation that if team A won, team B would be less motivated to win than if team A lost.

    With parlay betting strategy you should always look for an edge; an advantage that the bookmaker has failed to spot.

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  • Cheltenham 2012 Tips

    Betting

    The Cheltenham Festival is nearly upon us and with 4 race packed days there will be no shortage of betting options. As every day has a featured race including the Cheltenham Gold Cup on day 4, here are a few tips you might consider.

    Starting with the Gold Cup, this won’t exactly be a two horse race but the clear ante-post favourite seems to be Long Run which was last year’s winner. However, Kauto star is back and looking very good. He beat Long Run in the King George VI Chase and his rider Ruby Walsh believes that he deserves to do the same in the Gold Cup. We believe that he is right – Kauto Star is our choice.

    The featured race on Day 3, St Patricks Thursday, is the World Hurdle. This is the most important hurdle race of the season, and there will be a lot of money wagered on it. However we think that the smart money will be on the favourite Big Books. Although the odds are a little short to say the least, (best odds should be available at Betfair) this Paul Nichols trained hurdler is acclaimed as the greatest staying hurdler at the festival and definitely worth an investment.

    Day 2 is Ladies Day and the feature is the Queen Mother Champion Chase Odds, however it is not as clear to pick a winner. There are a number of horses in very close contention and you might be best advised to go for a good priced outsider with promise. Kauto Stone is one such possibility. This is yet another Paul Nichols trained horse and is looking good. Back each way.

    The opening featured race on Champion Day is the Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy. The ante post favourite is Hurricane Fly who was last year’s winner but the horse has not had an outing this season and its difficult to assess his form. Nicky Henderson has three horses in the race and one of these, Binocular is looking good. This is our tip of the day.

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  • What is the Teaser Betting Strategy?

    General

    Before we describe exactly what a teaser betting strategy is we need to cover the preliminary topic of a parlay bet for those who are unfamiliar with the term. Parlays are essentially accumulators in which the winnings from a successful wager on an event are bet on the outcome of a separate event. Parlays can cover just two or more events. The simplest form of parlay uses fixed odds, though there is also a points spread parlay.

    Teaser betting strategy makes use of a modified points spread parlay and is particularly applicable to sports betting on football. The aim is to combine two or more selections, similar to parlay betting described above, and both selections must be correct in order to win. However the difference is that you can move the points spread line or modify the number of points added or removed in either direction for a specific game.

    If one leg of a football parlay includes a match with a team having a 2 goal line with an over and an under of 2.5 and the gambler has a one point teaser, then the point line could be moved down one goal and the over an under would be moved to 1.5. If the result is a 2 goal win, then the original parlay bet would lose but the teaser would be a winner. What you are actually doing is teasing the point spread.
    Although your chances of winning with a teaser are higher, the downside is that the odds are reduced. A two leg parlay including the above example might pay out 13/5, but the teaser would pays out say only 10/11. Naturally an increased chance of winning equates to a lower payout when you do.

    If you are interested in trying out the power of the teaser, then a great place to place some teaser bets is at coral.co.uk.

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  • Top places to bet on horses online

    General

    If you are getting a little frustrated searching around for the best places to bet on horses online, then you will be pleased to know that we have done all the hard work for you. Searching around all the numerous sites and evaluating them is a painstaking process, so feel free to use our results.

    The top sites are:
    William Hill is a first rate online bookmaker and a truly professional organisation. It is an excellent place to bet on horses online. The website is both sophisticated and intuitive. It is very easy to understand and very easy to navigate, and there are many very helpful features. Betting on horse races is a particular feature on the site which has been very well crafted. In terms of customer service, William Hill has been around for a very long time as a company and they fully appreciate how important customer service is. You would need to go a long way to better it.

    Victor Chandler is another extremely professional organisation with 60 years of horse betting experience behind it. Certainly the website is just about the best there is for betting on horses. Everything is clear and accessible and all the information you need is right there in front of you. Placing a bet could not be easier either.

    Coral.co.uk is another website that has been very well developed and the horse betting pages are particularly commendable. Locating any particular race is very easy directly from the menu and the information displayed when selecting a race makes betting very pleasurable. Placing a bet could not be simpler either. Again this is a very professional organisation with a high standard of customer services.

    Ladbrokes is our other choice. Again the website has been very well put together and has a very attractive layout. What we like about the site is the guarantees to provide the best odds should you place an early bet and the starting price changes to your disadvantage. You get the best odds of the two.

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  • bwinbetting.com unveils new £5 free bet offer

    Betting

    bwin.com has announced a new £5 free bet offer which is exclusive to readers of bwinbetting.com, the new football betting site which arms punters with all the info they need to take advantage of the best odds offered by the world’s largest online gaming company.

    bwin.com is offering customers a new £5 free bet offer through its recently-launched football betting site, http://www.bwinbetting.com. The incentive is exclusively available to bwinbetting.com readers and has been launched in time for the new football season, which is now just weeks away.

    With no deposit required, the £5 free bet offer couldn’t be easier to claim. All customers need to do is head to the competitions page on bwinbetting.com, enter their mobile phone number in the designated text box and follow the instructions they receive via text message. The free £5 will be automatically added to their bwin.com accounts, allowing them to start betting immediately. For those not yet signed up for a bwin.com account, the £5 free bet offer can be used on top of the existing matched £25 free bet new customers receive for registering.

    Once the money is in a customer’s account it can be used to place bets on the 90-plus sports catered for by the world’s largest online gaming company. The free £5 must be bet at least three times before it can be withdrawn and the offer must be claimed before 31st December 2011. The one remaining caveat is that the offer is only available to people with a valid UK phone number.

    Known to football fans across the world as the shirt sponsor of Spanish giants Real Madrid, bwin.com launched bwinbetting.com earlier this year with the aim of ensuring punters can make the most informed betting decisions possible. It features previews of all the latest games across a wide variety of leagues and cups, a comprehensive stats section, betting tips and football news.

    “We cannot wait for the start of the season at bwinbetting.com and know that UK football fans feel the same way,” said editor Chris Bryant.

    “So we decided to offer this £5 free bet promotion to allow our readers to take advantage of the huge range of football odds offered by bwin for what promises to be another great campaign.”

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  • A guide to betting on the Grand National

    Betting

    The Grand National is one of the most prestigious horse races in the world and tempts even people new to gambling to have a bet.

    Each year 40 horses line up to complete the course at Aintree, which is probably one of the toughest races to finish.

    And that is where a lot of the appeal lies, as over such a gruelling course the chances of the favourite winning are actually pretty slim. In fact over the National’s long history only 11 favourites have actually won!

    The National is all about long shots which is why sticking a few quid on a horse can be so much fun.

    However, there are a few tricks that can be deployed when choosing a horse. For example it is common knowledge that any runner carrying over 11 stone rarely wins the National now days.

    It is also important to bear in mind that only 40 horses can run in the race, so when placing a bet the day before the event any horse below about number 55 in the list has very little chance of taking part.
    And of course even the most fancied horse could drop out right up to the day of the race due to injury, illness or even loss of form but if your choice is below 40 then there is added risk that they may not run.

    There are also another couple of factors to take into account such as the handicap and age of the horse and the going of the course.

    The handicap is the weight allotted to the horse. Each horse running is allotted a weight and they are then told to carry more or less weight to even the field but statistics do seem to suggest the fact that horses with higher weights struggle in the National.
    But does the age of the horse matter? Well four seven-year-old horses do run in the national but no horse of that age has won the event since 1940, while nine-year-olds have been the most successful.

    And finally what is meant by the going? Well that refers to the condition of the turf, how wet or dry it is. This is measured on a scale which varies from ‘heavy’ to ‘hard’. Usually the going for the Grand National is either good, good to soft, or good to firm. Some horses have a notable preference for a certain type of conditions, but the majority of horses handle most types of ground.

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  • Cheltenham Festival Top Trainers: Paul Nichols

    Betting

    At the 2010 Cheltenham Festival it is quite possible that Paul Nichols will break the record for the number of winning horses over the four days. It is yet to be seen whether or not he achieved this feat, but unarguably Paul Nichols is one of the most successful trainers of all time, so what is it that stands him head and shoulders above most of the rest?

    Unlike many in his field, Paul Nichols was not born into the horse racing world. He made his own way there and fought his way up from stable lad to jump racing champion.

    His father was a policeman and Nichols did not perform well academically at school. He left it as soon as he could and started working with horses and by the time he was 22 he had become a stable jockey working with David Barons. His career as a jockey was successful and scored many big wins which included the Hennessy Gold Cup in 1986 and 1987. In total he achieved 133 wins over seven years as a jockey before turning his attention to training in 1991 and before long was producing winners.

    His first Grade One winner was with See More Indians in 1993 in a Novices Chase at Kempton but it was at the Cheltenham Festival where his real abilities were displayed for the first time. In the 1999 Festival he achieved wins in three of the champion races: Call Equiname won the Queen Mother Champion Chase; Flagship Uberalles won the Arkle Chase; and See More Business won the Cheltenham Gold Cup. His success continued and in 2006 he was awarded Champion Jump Trainer.

    For a trainer to be successful it is necessary to have an excellent working relationship with the jockeys who ride for him, and Nichols achieved this with Ruby Walsh, one of the best jockeys in the current line up. Together they have been able to build on synergies that have led to a staggering number of wins and a handful of some of the all-time greatest jump horses; horses such as Kauto Star, Denman, Master Minded; all can be seen at this year’s festival and most will be seen leading the Cheltenham Betting odds come race day – such is Nichols’ dominance of the racing world.

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  • Can I Make a Living Being a Professional Sports Bettor?

    Professionals

    One of the biggest questions most new bettors ask about sports betting is whether they can be a professional bettor and quite their day jobs. Although the world of sports betting can be highly rewarding, there are several aspects we should consider before answering the question.

    First of all, you can only be profitable in sports betting if you do your homework properly. Sports betting can be a lot of fun, but it is certainly not a get-rich-quick scheme. Study the game, understand odds, and formulate a system to calculate bets and make decisions. You can make a lot of money if you take the betting opportunities seriously and make careful decisions.

    You also need to remember that sports betting will have ups and downs. There is not a single bettor I know, even professional bettors, that can win every bet they place. You will lose one or two bets every once in a while — you can also go into a losing streak — and losing is a natural part of the game. Unless you are prepared to manage risks and endure losses, you shouldn’t quite your day job.

    All in all, the answer to the question is most certainly YES, as long as you are ready to meet the requirements to be a professional sports bettor. It can be considered a very rewarding profession indeed. Several professional sports bettors make huge income by doing nothing but betting on their favorite sports, and you can join them as well.

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  • Betting on the World Cup Winners

    Football

    The 2010 FIFA World Cup is near, and what would be better than enjoying one of the world’s biggest football events with some great betting opportunities, right? Sports bookies and online bookmakers are opening up chances to place bets on World Cup winners since a couple of weeks ago. In this article, we are going to take a look at some of the best betting opportunities available.

    The latest World Cup Outrights listing, Spain is considered the most favorable team to win this year’s World Cup; Spain is indeed showing great performances throughout the qualifying round and the team is now topping the outrights list with a cool 4/1 odds. The nation is followed closely by Brazil and England in 2nd and 3rd place respectively, with 5/1 odds against Brazil and 11/2 odds against England. England is also showing superb performances with a solidly strong team and refined strategies.

    The group-winner betting opportunities are also quite interesting. France is favored to be the winner of Group A, while Argentina is the favorite for Group B. England is looking very strong in Group C, making the team this group’s favorable winner. Germany, Holland, and Italy are the favorites for Group D, E, and F. Brazil and Spain are also favorites in Group G and Group H.

    The current odds are looking very tempting. If you want to place bets on World Cup outrights and group winners, now is the best time to do it. Pick your favorite teams and contact your favorite bookmakers to make the wager.

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