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Live Betting Sites: In-Play Sports Bets Explained

Live online betting, also known as "in-game" or "in-play" betting, is the newest take on traditional sports betting. What makes live betting sites different is that the action doe…

Line Shopping and Sports Betting (Find the Best Odds)

Line shopping is one of the most powerful tools a sports bettor can use to increase his bottom line. Finding the best line available on each wager placed can save bettors a tremen…

Handicapping and Tipping Sites

Handicapping is the work of forming your own opinion on a game and comparing it with the price a bookmaker is offering. Skill affects how well you do it, but it does not make the…

Backing and Laying: How to Back and Lay Sports Bets

There are probably hundreds of websites out there offering you ‘fool proof betting strategies’ or ‘strategies that can’t be beaten’ when in most cases there are actually very few…

Hedge Betting Tips: How Hedging Bets Works

Very rarely –if ever – is there such thing as a ‘sure thing’ in sports betting. If there was then there would be plenty of rich bettors about. Unfortunately to become a successful…

Reduced Juice Betting Sites

One of my go-to pieces of advice for punters is to always shop for the best lines at reduced juice betting sites. I harp on this ad nauseam but it really is that important.If you…

Online Betting Exchanges

Betting exchange sites appear similar to traditional betting sites at first glance. You sign up, deposit, place bets at the day’s odds and get paid if your predictions are correct…

Sports Betting Rewards and VIP Loyalty Programs

Most sites offer online sports betting rewards programs, and nearly all sports betting sites offer new customers some form of signup bonus as an incentive to register an account a…

Understanding Sports Betting Odds and Lines

Welcome to our big guide to sports betting odds. This page serves two purposes. First, the chart below shows which betting sites offer which odds formats in case you have a prefer…

Mobile Betting Sites

As if we didn’t need yet another reason to bury our noses in our phones, mobile betting sites make it a piece of cake to place real money wagers from the palms of our hands. Every…

High Limit Betting Sites

If you enjoy the thrill of placing larger-than-usual wagers, here is a list of safe high limit betting sites willing to book your big wagers.How do we rate high stakes betting web…

Online Betting Systems Explained and Debunked

For as long as there have been wagers on future events, there have been people trying to get an edge by any means possible. The methods employed by gamblers range from the crimina…

Online Betting Scams: 12 Warning Signs You Can’t Afford to Miss

The advent of the internet made online betting available to anyone on the planet with a connection. When bettors deposit at online betting sites and follow the terms and condition…

Online Betting Addiction: How to Get Problem Gambling Help

We believe people should have the freedom to do as they wish with their own money. However, we also feel that it would be remiss to spend all this time talking about online bettin…

Instant Deposit Online Betting

If you want to bet today, the deposit method you choose decides whether you can. Some land in your account within minutes; others take days. This page covers the ones that are ins…

Direct Deposit Betting Sites

"Direct deposit" covers any method that moves money straight from your bank account to your betting account, with nothing in between. No card, no e-wallet, no third party holding…

Super Bowl Betting: Markets, Props and Overtime

The Super Bowl is the NFL's championship game, and the one betting market a great many people read once a year. That makes the rules deciding how a market settles worth more than…

Emmys Betting: Eligibility and the Size of the Field

The Primetime Emmy Awards are decided by votes under rules the Television Academy publishes, and one of those rules makes Emmy markets different from other awards markets: in most…

Grand National Betting: The Race and Its Markets

The Grand National is a handicap steeplechase run over the Grand National fences at Aintree, on the final day of a three-day festival in April. The Jockey Club dates the race to "…

Cheltenham Festival Betting: Races and Markets

The Cheltenham Festival is the championship meeting of National Hunt racing, held at Cheltenham over four days in March. The Jockey Club, which owns the racecourse, describes the…