- Liverpool U19 – Bayer Leverkusen U19 / 160$
- Celtic U19 – Leipzig U19 / 245$
- Pahtakor – Al rayyan / 187$
- Bologna U19 – Monaco U19 / 166$
- Iga Swiatek – Cori Gauff / 188$
- BK Zaporizhzhia – Staryi Lutsk Universitet / 250$
- FC Van Yerevan – Ararat Yerevan / 208$
- Plymouth – Portsmouth / 168$
- Hyundai Hillstate – Gwanju AI Peppers / 175$
- Incheon KAL Jumbos – KB Stars / 161$
Categories of Welcome and Unwelcome Players in Betting Shops
Clients of betting shops increasingly bet on sports events. They can be divided into three categories. One category of players wants to break the jackpot. Most of them tend to fill the express with many events with small coefficients. Calculation, as such, is not here. All hope for favorites and good luck. These “betters” are welcome for all bookmakers. The more there are such players, the more successful the business will be.
There is a second group of players. They try to analyze the chances of teams in terms of mathematics, they are trying to find value propositions. Evaluate the quotes of bookmakers and determine their own, keep the balance of rates in the tables. Such players are much smaller than the representatives of the first category.
If you calculate the difference between spent and won funds, it will be close to zero. The reason for this may be incorrectly made bets when the player succumbed to excitement and emotions. Several such wagers are leveled competently made before. Such clients are approximately 15-20% of the total number of betters. Many of them have a chance in the future “to rise in the rating”, becoming a professional, and to receive a stable income from the rates. If they completely turn off the excitement, deepen their knowledge in probability theory and other mathematical disciplines, then they will have good chances.
Professional bettors (the third category), receiving stable profits from bets, there is no more than 3%. These people can’t be called desirable clients of shops. They know mathematics well and bet only on events with overvalued coefficients. Players understand well that this is the main condition for profit from bets. In this case, they will have a financial advantage over the bookmaker.
Sports betting as a job
To distinguish a profitable bettor from an ordinary client of a shop is quite simple. The professional will not discuss the vicissitudes of the games. Its main task is to correctly assess the probability of certain events in the mural from the point of view of mathematics. In some ways, the views of these players and bookmakers converge. Both sides seek to earn income from bookmaking. Analysts of the shop expose such quotes to receive a certain margin on the basis of the results of the matches. However, they do not care who of the bettor won and who lost.
Approximately the same approach the professional player has in relation to the made bets. He is sure that every event is chosen and evaluated correctly. If you bet on a long distance on them, then there will be an income. By and large, and he does not care which rate will be the winning one, and what is the losing one. The main thing is that the balance in the end turned out to be positive.
It may be argued that a professional is very well versed in the nuances of training a team or an athlete. It is not always so. Some betters do not really understand how the tennis player plays at the net or on the right. They find distortions in the line and bet on profitable for themselves quotes. This does not mean that the shop was mistaken in determining the coefficients. She put them in the light of the players’ money.
Thus, bookmakers and professionals get profit. The source of income is customers who make wrong rates, succumbing to excitement, ignoring financial strategies and mathematical calculations.
Not all bookmakers have a negative attitude towards bettors who make smart bets on sports. Many well-known betting shops do not introduce any measures against such customers: they do not cut highs and do not block the account. On the contrary, they consider it useful to cooperate with them.
Successful betters are proof that you can make money on bets. This fact stimulates the exploits of new customers, they are more actively immersed in the world of bets, and bring profit bookmaker.
How professional betters bet in shops
Bookmakers quickly identify those customers who make smart bets. Many shops reserve the right to prohibit bets on certain events without explanation. As it is not difficult to guess, this is a value event. The shops behave differently in such cases. Some simply limit the size of the wager, others deliberately introduce technical barriers on the site, so that such a client physically could not make a bet.
Interestingly, ordinary users or other customers see completely different values of the highs. It turns out that for successful players restrictions are introduced, but for the rest there are not.
Some bookmakers proceed as follows. They do not immediately accept a bet from the client. Administrators decide whether to allow the player to bet and, if so, what amounts. Often good positions are rejected. This can tell a lot about successful betters.
What are the methods that players take in such cases? One of the effective ways is registration in several shops. Some have accounts in 6-8 betting shops. What does it give?
- The player increases the chances of making a good bet. If one bookmaker did not want to accept a bet, then you can try to do the same on the site of another;
- Profit comes from several betting shops, which allows not to attract excessive attention;
- It is easier to find more favorable odds for all bets.
After multiple blocking of accounts, players register under the name of relatives or friends. For obvious reasons, this step only postpones the blocking of the game account. This is more about domestic and not very reliable shops. If you do not go beyond the limits of rules and reasonable sense, then you can continue successful cooperation with several betting shops.
Bettors, who are deprived of the right to bet on bookmakers’ sites, can do this in the PAB. The blessing of them is still very much and face control has not yet been introduced. Most casino bookmakers are located in convenient places. Experienced players bet every time at a new point, so as not to attract attention to themselves. In large cities, doing this is much easier, since hundreds of addresses can be found on the card.
According to the players, they spend a day from 1 to 3 hours on a bet. They know at what time the shops expose favorable coefficients for certain events. As soon as quotes appear on the site, it means you can go and make a bet. It is very important to have a gadget with the Internet. With its help, it is easy to track changes in coefficients. It happens that you go to one shop, and put it in another because of the sharply changed coefficients.
There are several categories of such professionals. The most serious know the theory of probability and are able to find many beneficial offers. More modest players are able to find a limited number of profitable events, where there are obvious errors in the coefficients. Such betters have basic or not very deep knowledge in mathematical sciences.
Incomes from gambling provide a certain number of players with a comfortable life. However, it is useful to have other sources of income. Not always even competent sports betting allow you to feel confident. Sometimes you have to put up with non-payments for some of them. For this reason, it is necessary to break the wager into smaller ones to minimize possible losses in similar situations.
Search for profitable bets
Professional bettors often find advantageous offers in duels of regional tournaments and in not very popular disciplines. At a time when the bulk of players bet on matches involving Real, Bavaria and Manchester, the bettors are calmly analyzing some third or fourth division of the Danish or Scottish Championship. In these tournaments it is easy to find advantageous offers, which is what the experienced betting shop customers use.
Those who are brewed in the bookmaker business are familiar with the concept of the “Crowd Effect”. The meaning of it is that most players bet on positions with low odds. However, few of them think about the value of these events. Such a concept as the break-even point in the rates they do not know. Professionals have well studied the psychotypes of such players and are against their opinion, putting on opposite events.
Virtual account for correct bets
Many customers of betting shops ignore the ability to bet using a virtual account. And they do it completely in vain. Experienced bettors use it to test some strategies and their own know-how to make a smart bet in the real world.
For example, a player wants to check the passability of bets on total Over in the quarters of the NBA championship. He chose several suitable clubs for this strategy and wants to “spend” them for several months, after calculating the balance of rates. In order not to spend in vain the money for this mini-project, it is reasonable to make a bet on virtual money. Moreover, you can test several strategies at once or check your ideas in different sports. This is a good opportunity for beginners to choose a suitable method of rates. Venerable betters will be able to conduct experiments and test their personal experiences.
Arbitrage situations (arbs)
Still relatively recently arb strategy was considered very promising until a certain time. This method of playing in the betting shop is to find arbitration situations that arise after the quotation in three shops. Such coefficients for events are formed, so that at certain bet sizes on them one can get a guaranteed profit. To implement this strategy, you need to register in many shops. So you can be able to find events with the right odds.
They are looking for arbs mainly among the simplest events: victories, defeats, draws. To find arb, it is necessary to add up the probabilities that correspond to the coefficients. When summing the values of the coefficients, the number should be less than 1.
Since there are many bookmakers, their coefficients can differ significantly. If we take three different events (win, draw, win) and add the quotes, we can get an amount less than 1. The arbers problem to this is reduced to find such triples of numbers, the sum of which is less than 1. Having found such coefficients, it is necessary to bet on each the outcome is a certain amount of bets.
Let’s see an example: in one shop the coefficient of victory is 2.7, in another shop for a draw it is 4, in the third for the victory of team 2 the coefficient is 2.9. If we translate quotes into probabilities and add them, we get: 1/2.7 + 1/4 + 1/2.9 = 0.37 + 0.25 + 0.34 = 0.96.
Now it is necessary to put money for each event in different shops. The amounts will be different. The rate in percent of the total amount for events is determined by the following formula:
R = V/S. R – the percentage of the total amount of bets. V is the probability of an event. S is the sum of the probabilities of all events. For our case, the interest on the amount is obtained as follows: 0.37/0.96 = 38%; 0.25/0.96 = 26%, 0.34/0.96 = 36%. If we bet $100 on the events, then at any outcome we get 3.6% of the profit from the win.
To simplify the task of determining arbs and calculating the sizes of rates, customers of shops can use special calculators. They select the number of outcomes and the type of events:
In this case, we see that the profit is 9%, which is quite good.
The advantage of the arb method is the mathematical advantage of the player over the shops, if he finds such events. Today, on the Internet, you can use the services that search for arbs. There are calculators of arbs for 4, 5 or more outcomes (for handicaps, totals).
The disadvantages of this method include the fact that the coefficients change, and you can simply not have time to bet on the three outcomes for the required arb coefficients. In addition, some shops do not experience excessive enthusiasm for players who play by this method. Some shops impose restrictions on such customers.
Today arb strategy is risky. Many bookmakers do not like arbers. At the slightest suspicion in the rates for this method they block the account without the right to restore it. Understand that bettor puts arbs very easily. First of all, the amount of bets is alarming. Secondly, search services of arbs are available to the administration of the shops. Use them is not difficult. Therefore, professional players refuse these questionable earnings.
Prohibition for athletes
Bookmakers, as a rule, do not allow betting to professional sportsmen and judges. This taboo applies to all sports. Now unprecedented measures are being taken to combat contractual matches. Many bookmakers sign agreements with national and world federations on various sports. According to these agreements, the parties undertake to inform each other of all suspicious moments that they were noticed during, before and after fights.
Bookmakers should inform the federation about all suspicious bets. For example, if very large sums are bet on the outsider, then it looks strange. Particular attention is paid to the final segment of the season. Most often strange games occur in the last 3-4 rounds.
It is clear that athletes have relatives, friends and acquaintances who can bet on matches with a known outcome. However, this can subsequently be very bad for the athlete’s career.
Useful tips for beginners
If you are new, visit the most popular bookmakers. Choose according to the following criteria:
- The minimum bet amount;
- Choice of currencies and payment systems for settlements;
- The magnitude of the coefficients;
- Time of funds transfer to the game account and bank cards.
It is not superfluous to read opinions on forums on the Internet about the reputation of this or that betting shop. Although the information there may be contradictory. The main criteria of a good betting shop is its activities for many years, the number of events in the line, the reliability of payments and transfers, the convenience of online bets.
Be aware that most bookmakers have mobile versions of sites. Therefore, you can bet on sports from phones, tablets, other digital devices. Smart bets on sports through the Internet is an opportunity to be successful. Everyone has this chance.