Analysis of the most Useful Markets in Betting

For bookmakers, such bets are beneficial – illusion of a large choice attracts customers, but bets in most markets are more like a lottery game, where knowledge and analysis isn’t worth anything – 100% success is decided by luck. Below is a list of such betting markets that can benefit you after a few bets, but if you choose them for everyday betting – it can cost the whole gaming bank. Everything written below basically refers to the bets before a match.

1. Even/Odd. This market can be seen in most game sports (football, volleyball, etc.). The goal is to guess what the score will be in the match: even or not even. As can you see this is a market for “guessing”! There isn’t and can’t be any analysis, statistical research. No matter who plays – a favorite, outsider, amateurs, no matter what the score may be, who will win. The chance of your winning is still 50%, minus the margin of a bookmaker and you will be in guaranteed minus at a distance, so this market can be used unless there is nothing to bet on.
2. The exact score. The main thing that attracts players to this market are high odds. Indeed sometimes it seems that it’s a sin not to take advantage of such a chance, because it’s so easy to guess the score in a match and get a profit of several hundred percent of the bet! But is it really easy to guess the exact score? Of course no! You never know how the game will develop even between equal opponents, how many goals will be scored. “Accurate score” can be used except in the “Short Express” strategies, it will be much more effective. And making single bets on this market is a true loss.
3. The team will win and not skip – another very dubious market in terms of constant income. Even if a clear favorite and outsider play, you can’t be sure that a favorite won’t miss at least 1 goal – because a favorite can score enough goals for the victory and “relax”, conceding at the end of a match. But even in this case (when the forces of the teams are very different) the odds will be so low that it would be pointless to bet on such a market. And we can’t even talk about the matches, where the forces of the teams are approximately equal (and there is a majority of them).
4. Will there be an own goal in the match? Another “lottery” market in the bookmaker office, which isn’t possible to predict. Yes, an own goal is possible in any match, but how to know if it will be in a particular game today. Of course, the odds for such an event are always around 10, but betting on this – a “losing” tactic.
5. Will the specific player score? This is a popular market for betting, but it has one feature. Yes, in many teams there are players who can score in almost any game, and on the one hand you can bet on them. But bookmakers aren’t fools either, and they set very low odds on such players, even if the top player can’t score in every game. And then what about other players – they have more odds, but how to predict: will he score tomorrow or in a month? After all, even the goalkeeper can score, but bets on such unlikely events, even with the highest odds are absolutely meaningless.
6. In each team there are potential “offenders” who are able to play very rudely or not disciplined. But even they can’t receive red cards every match. But in general, the odds in this market are so low that it simply doesn’t make sense to focus your attention on it.
7. The team will win. Here it’s suggested to guess whether a certain team will lose during the match and then will win. You understand that such a proposal from bookmakers is a complete absurdity.
8. Who will score the last goal. As you might expect, if a match with a pronounced favorite – then odds on it will be very small. And in other cases – the chances of a correctly predicted result are too small to hope for a profit at a distance.
9. Will there be a penalty? Will they be appointed or not, how does a normal player know this without foreseeing? Of course – there are judges whose statistics on the appointed penalty can help in the forecast. But this doesn’t mean that a particular referee should appoint 11-meter in each game, no one knows how rude the concrete match will be. Even if the judge will put “on the point” in every second game (and even this doesn’t happen), then we still won’t earn anything in this market.
10. The sum of the minutes on which the goals were scored. This isn’t a joke, there are indeed such markets in some bookmakers (for example – in Bet365). Example of the market: from 100 to 130 minutes (the market will win if 2 goala will be scored, for example, on 60 and 62 minutes). Also in these markets there is MORE and LESS than a certain amount of minutes. In short, without comments – complete nonsense.

As you know, not all bets in bookmakers are equally useful for your wallet. Modern betting shops offer a very large selection of markets for a variety of sports events (especially football – the most popular sport for betting in the world). But as experienced players have understood, most of these markets simply can’t be won in the long run.