Showing posts with label bet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bet. Show all posts

4/01/2009

Tips on being a successful bookie

Many people don’t know much about the sports betting industry. A lot of people freak out because of the amount numbers there are, but it’s not really complicated once you concentrate on it. One factor to take into consideration is the profit you receive from a bet. So, here is my tip for all the new guys that are starting in this wide field of odd numbers.

In order to make a profit, the bookie will try to adjust the odds of the bet to his favor, because the more accurate the bets are, then the more money can be made if the bet’s outcome is successful. The less accurate the bet, though, the more out of money the bookie and gambler will be. Turning a profit and being a successful bookie can take careful and considerate work by the average bookmaker.

When the bookie attempts to balance his book in order to earn a payout from the bet, he is effectively point spreading. This means he will attempt to find a roughly equal number of bets for each outcome of the event.

Also, when a bookie receives a large bet, he will try to reduce the risk he faces by attempting to recruit other people to wager on a different outcome. In some cases, he may also buy bets from another bookmaker to balance his odds. In this way he can still place numerous wagers for the event and earn a profit doing so. Point spreading can certainly not be easy for an amateur, as balancing the bets is important to the bookie, but it can help a bookie when his odds for success are lower than usual.

There are many more tips, but you have to understand the system first in order to do a better job and make better profit. It takes time, but its well worth it.

2/04/2009

So, who’s the main man for the Patriots?

Alright, so let’s analyze the following landscape: Tom Brady completely recovers and goes back to the team; he does great at training camp and is ready to go back to the starting quarterback position, then, the question is: will there be space for Matt Cassel too? You bet that there will some.


Now everybody knows that Tom Brady can get injured as easily as any other player out there, and the Patriots also know that the future hall of famer is vital for the team, or at least, it is vital to have a man with some of the qualities of Brady, and Matt Cassel has surely proved that he’s the one.


If Tom Brady falls into inactivity due to a new injury in a future NFL season, now the Patriots are trustful that they have an outstanding second-string quarterback in Cassel, and that their offensive is not going to suffer drastically for the eventual loss of Brady.


The question here is not if Matt Cassel is going to play next season, I’m sure he will, the question here is, how many games is going to steel Cassel from Brady?


I’m sure Tom Brady is a player that can recover from an injury in a great way, but certainly, there are always traces of old injuries in NFL players, and this is what is putting Brady to a level similar to that one of Cassel, giving the latest an edge the coming season to have the opportunity to play a few regular games instead of Brady and that way, he’s able to gain more experience on the field, because I’m sure that after the 09/10 NFL season, Tom Brady will be in more than optimal conditions and it will be then that we will know if the experience gained by Cassel is going to help him to continue at the same level as that one of Tom Brady.

12/08/2008

Top NFL craziest teams fans!

Being a sports fans can cause a lot unusual “behaviors” , there’s lots of reasons to mention like when your team is loosing the game, or when someone is using a t-shirt from other team in a place where he is not suppose to, or what about those that think that their team lost because someone in the field cheat on them. Or how about due to the team that you bet on has lost...

Of course some of the incidents show how immature we can get when we loose our mind for any event that is not according to what we wanted.

Here is a brief description of some of craziest things that a sports fan has made:

Texas fan nearly castrated: This can sound strange at once but what happen was that a Texas fan wearing a Longhorns t-shirt when to an Oklahoma fans bar, as should be expected when the Texas fan got up to leave one of the Sooner’ fans grabbed his crotch, pulling the poor boy to the ground and hitting him all around. Thanks to police intervention the Texas could leave before something worst could happen to him. Even the boy got 60 stitches and some other injuries in his legs and arms the Oklahoma University received a lot of calls saying that such behavior was justified. Isn’t this crazy? If you really think this is crazy then you should check the next case.

The Philadelphia Eagles Fans: These fans are best known for being so blinded by loyalty, making them losing all capacity for logic. On October of 1999, in a game against the Dallas Cowboys, at the first quarter a suddenly brutal tackle left Dallas receiver Michael Irvin unconscious by that most f the attendance began cheering reaching joyful when the ambulance drove on to the field.

One of the other craziest things to be mention here happened in 1997; when a fan took shot a flare across the field into the stands during a Monday night football game making this the only pro-football stadium that has its own judge and jail for rowdy fans. This is completely out of any common sense, isn’t it?

What about the Oakland Raiders Fans: they’re mean, scary and some say that they have used hell’s angels as guards of his team making them the symbol of the dark side of football. Really scary ha! Well this fans use to attack the opposing fan teams with chains and knives …. And what other team can boast a death row murderer that just before being executed said as final words …Go raiders…

Green Bay Packers Fans: How about three fans of the Green bay Packers that stands in front of the crowded stadium wearing the record number of touchdown passes by quarterback Brett Favre. Thanks God that the Packers won 23-16 that day.

There’s a bunch of crazy stories, this is just a brief view of how the love for something like an NFL team or a College Football team can get you into a big trouble or even can make you lost your mind completely.