Basketball
Gambling Strategy
When
you bet on a football or basketball game, you'll typically be playing
against a "pointspread." 7 points will favor team A over Team
B for example. You'll either take Team A to win by more than 7, or Team
B to lose by less than 7¡or to win the game outright. It's important
to remember that the pointspread DOES NOT represent a prediction on the
game from the sports book or casino¡but rather, a number that it
believes will split the money evenly to reduce their risk. You
see¡when you bet a straight play like this, you have to risk your
money in an 11/10 ratio (that extra 10% is called the vigorish, or the
"vig" or "juice" in slang). You risk $11 to win
$10¡or $110 to win $100¡or $55 to win 50, etc‿Ideally from the
sports book perspective¡half the wagerers will take one team in a
game, half will take the other¡then the sports book will make its
profit from the losing side. Imagine that wagerers as a group risked
$55,000 to win $50,000 on Team A, and $55,000 to win $50,000 on Team B.
It doesn't matter who wins¡the sports book will pocket $5,000 in
profit¡and use the other $50,000 from the losers to pay off the
winners.All of this is important to you, because it means that for smart
players, sports wagering is the best money making proposition in all of
wagering. Bet Basketball online at BetVSI.com,
and enjoy the excitement that gambling adds to the game.Think about it,
the laws of probability rule all the other casino games. The odds
concerning the next card that comes up in blackjack or poker, where the
ball's going to land in roulette, what number is about to be rolled in
craps, etc‿The casinos know the laws¡and have adjusted their
payoffs accordingly. For the most part, you have to get lucky to win in
the casino. You can't purposely beat roulette any more than you can
purposely hit the jackpot at a slot machine. But you can through
research and intelligence, be sports pointspreads!Pointspreads are based
on perceptions of the wagering public. Because the wagering public isn't
perfect in its analysis¡there are holes that can be exploited each and
every day. There are 7-point favorites who should be 10-12 point
favorites¡there are underdogs who have match-up advantages that will
yield a straight up victory¡there are good teams about to have an
off-day, and bad teams who play over their heads in certain scenarios.
This applies to all sports including Football and Basketball.
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Football
and Basketball are similar in that they use pointspreads. Baseball
generally uses a money line. Hockey uses either a "puck" line
(similar to a pointspread but based on goals), or a money line like
baseball.
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