Sportsbook Articles (Page 32)

Sportsbook Articles

Sports bets can be classified in many different ways. The most common type of wager is the “straight bet,” choosing a single team or individual to win an event in which only two are com...
Bookmakers do their level best to offer fair odds. After all, it is to their advantage to attract backers on both sides of any bet. If the amount of wagering on the favourite is identic...
Placing a sports bet for the first time can be rather daunting. There is so much information available, so many lines of numbers to sort through. It appears that everyone else knows exa...
Wagers made between individuals, peer-to-peer, are older than money, back when barter was the method of trade and gambling. Betting involving go-betweens called “bookmakers” is less tha...
It is a good bet that wagering on sports predates historical records. As long as there have been contests with winners and losers, there has been betting. However, when it comes to the ...
If wagering were limited to “straight up” bets, simply picking a side to win or lose, the public would soon lose interest and bookmakers couldn’t make a living. Fortunately, there other...
Sportsbooks can be daunting, whether they are located online or off. There is so much going on there, from the flat screens or windows showing multiple events live to the huge boards of...
You do not have to be a math genius to wager and win at casinos or sports books. Simply bet on a hunch, trust your luck, and you might walk away with more money that you started with…or...
Thanks to the Internet, remote betting seems to have jumped to a global scale almost overnight. The first online gaming web site was Caribbean Casino, launched in 1994~1995 by an enterp...
Anyone who has ever wagered on and then watched a sporting event has at sometime or other said, “I should have bet more” or “I should have bet less.” Now, thanks to the convergence of c...