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Successful betting on sportsbooks, or successful handicapping
requires a substantial amount of homework and a systematic
approach to gambling and money management. Profitable gambling
on sportsbooks games has its price and you must be willing to
put in the time and research.
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will show you some of the things you'll need to know to make
better picks and win more money this season.
1. Always approach the sportsbooks games in terms of an entire
season.
Don't try to win big on one game and set your goals to win more
games than you lose over the long haul of an entire season. If
you are serious about success, you must make a plan and remain
disciplined. You should plan the proper bet size on each play or
game. You should never risk more than 5% of your bankroll on any
one play. I would guess that most of the sportsbooks gamblers
are wagering too much on each game and ask you not fall into
that same trap.
2. Narrow your weekly gambling choices down and make quality
bets.
Narrow your weekly gambling choices down to no more than seven
games per week. It's a rare week when more than a few games will
stand out as good gambling values. Find these games and you'll
better your odds of winning more than you lose. Whatever system
you use for your sportsbook betting remember to keep it simple.
You don't want to worry so much about how much each play is
worth and forget to handicap. If you want to be successful at
sports betting remember that money management will be important.
3. Look for the best early moneyline and point spread values in
the season.
Take advantage of early season point spread and money line value
before the odds makers have had a chance to catch up with which
teams are hot and which teams are not. During the early part of
a season, look for teams that are playing much better or worse
than expected to get your best value. Many novice handicappers
concentrate on how a team performed the previous year, but in
this era of salary cap constraints and constant roster turnover,
teams never perform at the same level in two consecutive years.
In addition, teams that performed well the previous year are no
longer a good value because you are laying a much higher price
with them, especially at the beginning of the next season. Start
your handicapping analysis before the season starts so you'll be
ready to take full advantage of the first few weeks of the
season.
4. Find the best odds and gambling lines.
One last place to look for value is in the line itself. With
hundreds of online sportsbooks already in existence, and more
springing up every season, handicapping lines and point spreads
will vary from one sportsbook to the next. Having multiple
places to shop for the best lines offer bettors an extra point
on many games. A few extra wins that would have been pushes, and
pushes that would have been losses can make a huge difference in
a handicapper's bottom line at the end of a season. A few
minutes of shopping around for one last chance of additional
value will make certain that you are getting the best odds for
your gambling dollars.
5. Use research not trends.
The first type of a sportsbook gambling method is where you
research as much as possible about the teams and the games
specifically, weigh all the relevant substantive factors as best
you can, and arrive at your best educated guess as to the likely
outcome. The key to this method is a lot of research. The more
informed your opinion or intuition is, the better. The second
method involves looking for specific trends that appear to hit
at a greater than chance rate, and then betting the games that
fit these trends. The overwhelming majority of such trends have
little or no predictive value whatsoever. One reason I say this
is because there are an infinite number of possible trends like
this, so of course you can always go back after the fact and
find as many as you want that have hit at a surprisingly high
percentage. But you want to identify the ones that will continue
to hit at that above chance percentage, and that is a very
elusive task. For all intents and purposes, ignore trends and
concentrate on trying to figure out who is the better team and
by how much.