how can you win in sport betting?

kakon3 · #1 01-09-2007, 04:58 PM

i am not saying its not possible, i just want to know how can it be done.
the gambling sites are giving you always worst price then it really is, so how can you beat it? do you think that sometimes they are making mistakes and give wrong price? why would they be making mistakes, if they got millions of dollers to waste on searching for the most accurate price?
i just dont understand how can anyone beat it over the long run.

Homer · #2 01-09-2007, 05:09 PM

- bonuses

- arbitrage

- betting soft lines (especially props)

- oh, i guess capping could help, too [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Thremp · #3 01-09-2007, 05:10 PM

They can't its myth.

dippydoo · #4 01-09-2007, 05:10 PM

Wow, you waited over 3 months to make your first post, and this was it?
The books do make mistakes. One reason for this is because they HAVE to put up lines on all the games in all sports (plus props etc) to keep their customers coming back. That means they need to do a lot of work creating a ton of lines in just a few hours.

A player, on the other hand, doesn't have to bet all, or any games on any day. He can look for the mistakes that books make in their haste to get lines out, and then exploit those mistakes.

AskSomethingNew · #5 01-09-2007, 05:10 PM

Ask Something New.

kakon3 · #6 01-10-2007, 11:59 PM

dont buy it that they make mistakes, espacily when they can compare lines with other books all the time, so it probably very rare that they make mistakes and they will probably change it immidiatly when they notice it, in order to exploit a mistake you will need that all the market will be wrong which is hard for me to assume that its the case.

i agree that you can probably make money from arbitrage, thats a little bit diffrent.

Homer · #7 01-11-2007, 12:07 AM

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dont buy it that they make mistakes, espacily when they can compare lines with other books all the time, so it probably very rare that they make mistakes and they will probably change it immidiatly when they notice it, in order to exploit a mistake you will need that all the market will be wrong which is hard for me to assume that its the case.

i agree that you can probably make money from arbitrage, thats a little bit diffrent.

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Arbitrage results from mistakes and slow-to-move books.

trixtrix · #8 01-11-2007, 12:39 AM

can anyone win in poker? i mean house takes 3$ rake per pot so the winner always receives back less money than his true gross dictates, so how can anyone beat it in the long term? i mean house takes 50-100$ out of the pot per hr and it's guaranteed money, so gambling being a zero-sum game means that all the players at the table will eventually become broke..

can someone explain the poker winning concept to me pls?

Thremp · #9 01-11-2007, 02:02 AM

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can anyone win in poker? i mean house takes 3$ rake per pot so the winner always receives back less money than his true gross dictates, so how can anyone beat it in the long term? i mean house takes 50-100$ out of the pot per hr and it's guaranteed money, so gambling being a zero-sum game means that all the players at the table will eventually become broke..

can someone explain the poker winning concept to me pls?

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Worst comparison ever.