Without a doubt, at one time or another you have bet on your favorite basketball, hockey or soccer team, or on the favorite in a horse race, or any other sporting event, but how do you know for sure? who will win If you can predict the winner, with a high degree of accuracy, you can win money; It’s that easy.

Let’s face it, the reason you do this is that you want to end up with more money than when you started. You think you can predict winners more accurately than bookmakers, but how often are you right?

Well, the 3 sports betting strategies below could give you an edge the next time you place a bet on the sport of your choice. These 3 options, if used correctly, can make the difference between you walking away with a profit and being just another wasted bet that helps fund the bookmakers’ next vacation abroad.

Asian handicap

This is a little-used, but very useful addition to your sports betting techniques. Generally there are 3 possible outcomes in a sporting event for any player or team; win, lose or tie. Using an Asian handicap it is possible to reduce the number of results to just 2.

Suppose we are watching a soccer game. The bookmaker may cite a handicap line where team A starts the game with a 1.5 goal advantage and team B starts with a -1.5 goal handicap. Now, as we cannot get 0.5 goals, there can only be 2 results and the odds are established taking into account the handicap.

If you think team A is going to win, and as long as they win, draw or at least not lose by more than one goal, you win, as they had a 1.5 goal advantage. Similarly, if you think team B will win, you must beat your handicap of -1.5 goals. So they need to win by 2 goals or more.

In sports where the handicap can be equalized, for example in basketball where a team can be given a start of 20 points, bets will generally be returned if there is a tie. However, it is best to check with your local sportsbook. In this case, you may not win, but you don’t lose either.

Arbitration

It means buying and selling for profit, taking advantage of the price variation in different markets. This is the holy grail of sports betting, as you can literally find yourself in the situation that whoever wins a match will continue to benefit from the result.

In practice, this used to be very difficult to do as it meant following a wide range of market prices at the same time. However, with the advent of the Internet, this is now much easier. Since bookmakers often have very different opinions on the outcome of a sporting event and also advertise their prices on their websites, we can quickly compare these prices.

If we can find a situation where bookmaker A has a better price for a team / player and bookmaker B has a better price for its opponent, we can back both teams with the respective bookmakers and win money. whatever the result.

Bet on Running

As any game or sporting event begins to unfold, the odds cited at the beginning of the event may seem out of line with what you are witnessing on the field of play. If only you could place a bet knowing how the match unfolds. Well, with “race betting” that’s exactly what you can do.

Many bookmakers will alter the odds of the event as the action unfolds and you can place a bet with these “new” odds. If team A scores, the chances of that team winning will be shortened and subsequently the chances of team B winning being longer. If you still believe that Team B will eventually succeed, these longer odds are your chance to place a bet with better odds (for you). Usually the bookies website will tell you which events are offered as “running”.