How To Bet

ALLEN EYESTONE/FOR THE AUGUSTA C / USA TODAY NETWORK Sports betting has been a part of American life for the past several decades. For most of the time period just noted, golf betting was not available to sports bettors. As a direct result, bettors were only placing wagers on major sports such as football, baseball,…

Vegas dangles the odds at you when you walk into the sportsbook. You see online sportsbooks use them in offseason advertising. But, what are Futures Bets and How do you win betting Futures? Future Bets, AKA Futures, are wagers on the result of events that happen in the future. These are typically referring to something…

There are three Kinds of sports bettors. Two of them bet into halftimes odds. 1. The Typical Sports HandicapperThe typical sports bettor is a handicapper. He’s checking the NFL lines early in the week. He’s checking the NBA injury report at lunch. He’s browsing the betting odds looking for that line that just looks ‘off’. Maybe he’s…

What is a parlay? A parlay is a group of individual bets combined to make one bet. Because it is a combination of bets, the fewest number of outcomes one can try and predict in one parlay wager is two. In the parlay, it is actually one wager predicting a series of outcomes, and because it is…

Sports Betting Mistakes You Need to Avoid To end up on top, bettors need to avoid doing the things that make bookmakers rich. Let’s take a look at how NOT to put your bookie’s kid through college by avoiding these sports betting mistakes! Failing to Line Shop Have you heard the term “line shopping” before?…

How to win Betting Prop Bets If you bet at a sportsbook already, you probably see a lot of marketing emails featuring star players and references to how they will perform. Sportsbooks are capitalizing on names as much as teams, and in some cases moreso. Maybe you don’t know much about women’s college hoops but you probably…

At times, certain lines and wagers on events may be unavailable due to pending information regarding the game. When the point spread, total, or money line isn’t released within the normal timeframe the game is considered off the board. Games are usually off the board when a key player’s status for a game is unknown due…

What is a money line wager?  A money line or straight up wager is simply betting on a team to win the game or betting that another team will lose the game. Betting on a team to just win or lose is often referred to as taking that team straight up and is often what…