Betting for beginners

There are many types of promotions offered by online betting sites, and one type offered by many of the best UK betting sites is a free bet.  There are actually a couple of different categories of free bets as well, including in running free bets and bonuses free bets.  Not all free bet promotions are equal, though, and it is important to ask yourself the right questions when you are shopping around to make sure you are getting a good bonus.

Which Type of Free Bet are You Getting? 

When you decide how much money to put down on a bet, how much do you choose?  Do you pick a certain amount, whether it be £5 or £5,000?  How do you set your minimum and maximum bets?  Bettors are often advised to think in terms of pounds when they set their betting units, but you may want to think in terms of percentages instead.

Have you ever seen a line open for a game and then rapidly and drastically swing the other way?  If so, you have already seen the perfect setup for a middling opportunity.  Middling is a very popular strategy, used by novice and experienced punters alike.  If you “middle” a game, you essentially are betting on one side, waiting for the betting line to move the other way, and then betting on the other side.

I have talked in the past about the importance of keeping a betting journal.  In a betting journal, you can write about your wagering experiences, including not only your outcomes, but also your emotions, your strategies, and more.  A betting journal is a valuable tool since it allows you the chance to go back over your past and analyze the decisions you have made.  The insights you get from your journal can help you to come up with smart changes to your strategies, which in turn can lead to greater profits.  But a betting jour

These days, it seems like just about everybody owns either a smartphone or a tablet.  If you do, you can take advantage of your mobile device while betting on your favourite sports.  There are a number of different ways your device can be useful to you.

Whether you are buying points for a wager or simply trying to decide what side to wager on sports, one concept you should be familiar with as a punter is fatigue.  Fatigue refers to the energy drain on a particular team, player, or horse.  This tends to be more and more of a factor as the season unfolds.  All players are only human, and fatigue can make or break any of them.  And fatigue itself has many factors going into it.

What are some common causes of fatigue?

One term you will hear often when you are gambling on sports is “handicapping.”  You probably intuitively know what handicapping means, because odds are you have encountered the concept somewhere in your life before.  A lot of people became familiar with handicapping in America thanks to Jimmy Snyder on CBS (“Jimmy the Geek”).  Jimmy was a famous handicapper.  Because he was on American television, he couldn’t bluntly talk about sports betting, but he could predict the scores of future games. 

Do you usually sit down on Friday nights to do your research before NFL weekends?  Do you then wonder why, despite your best efforts, you continue to lose your wagers?  While you may think you are ahead of the game because you are putting in several days of effort, the reality is that you are still behind the sharps and the real professional handicappers.  Even if this is your part-time job, you have to treat it like a full-time job in order to be successful.  And that means taking the whole week to keep up with NFL teams.&nb

When you are learning about different US types of sports wagers (straight bets, parlays or accumulators, teasers, pleasers, and so on), one term you will hear often is the term “push.”  Different types of wagers have different payout rules where pushes are concerned.  Depending on the type of bet you are in, a push may also have an impact on your other

Once you are familiar with your basic US straight bet, you can learn about other types of US bets like pleasers.  Maybe you have also read about teaser bets.  Teasers consist of a number of straight bets and/or totals combined into a single wager.  A pleaser is similar to a teaser (as you might guess from the name), except that the way you adjust the lines is very different.  When you enter into a teaser, you are able to adjust the lines in your favour.  You boost the spread of the underdog or decrease