In this article you’ll learn something you ever wanted to know (and then some!) about how to make smart statistical bets based on how well you understand and interpret information.

And that’s what it’s going to take to win.

Are you a winner? You only need a few things in order to get started: a small stake to begin your initial investment and a willingness to learn. But the number one thing you need to do in order to be successful at betting is this: you need to separate your emotions from your intellect.

We are emotional people and that means that sometimes it’s easy to become anxious about a bet. But statistics is not about emotion. You won’t find emotional quotient in any good odds calculation. While your gut feeling does come into play from time to time, you shouldn’t consider emotions as part of your decision-making. You should use facts, numbers, and cold, hard intellect. That’s going to be the key to an increase in winnings.

You’re not going to win every bet but the more information you take in and the better you become at interpreting it, the more likely you’ll be at knowing whether or not you should place the bet, and for how much, etc.

That’s what statistical betting is all about. It relies on the fact that many people have already done the research to uncover the potential wins and losses on a particular event. Rather than requiring you to do all that work again, statistical betting takes the odds that the bookies offers and interprets it so you can uncover potential gold mines.

By: Robert Thatcher

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Betting on sports is a hobby for millions of people. For the people that know what they are doing it is more than just a hobby, it is a good source of income. However, most of these people have a secret, they are using a sports betting system.

Sports betting systems have helped thousands of people win bets and win bets consistently. The NBA and MLB betting system was developed by a statistician who got his PhD from Cornell University. He discovered, after 5 years of research, some games can be predicted correctly at a rate of 97%.

This is not betting on all games. It is about 80 games during a basketball season and about 40 games during the baseball season. That’s much less than 10 % of the total games for the season. This selective betting pattern forces the bettor to wait for conditions to be perfectly right before risking any money.

This system has allowed the creator to win over $12,000 every week. It takes less than 5 minutes a day to place your bets, which leaves you a full day to do whatever you want. This extra time and money will allow you to lay back on a beach somewhere or pursue dreams you never thought possible without this financial security.

The sports betting system has been proven over years of success. It has accurately predicted 292 games out of 300 in the past 5 NBA seasons. That includes a 7 wins, 0 losses, thus far in the 2008 season. During the past 5 baseball seasons, he has only lost 1 bet, winning 194.

By: Charles Tyler

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A betting system is basically a way of using money management to maximize your profits. Managing your money properly is the major criteria while playing blackjack, as no technique or method can win you money unless you effectively deal with your bet.

Most blackjack betting systems can be categorized as multiplicative, additive or linear. The Martingale system is considered to be the most widely used blackjack betting system. It was invented over 200 years ago. The system is multiplicative in nature, which means that you are required to double your bet each time you lose, on the assumption that you will eventually win and show a profit from the initial wager. However, in order to eliminate the effectiveness of this system, casinos have set table limits, which ensure that after a long losing streak you will eventually hit the table maximum limit and have to quit the game or start afresh. Also, in order to make the system work you also need a considerable bankroll.
The Progressive Betting System, on the other hand, is the simplest and the most effective betting system. In this system, a player simply decides on a minimum and maximum bet and then bets the smaller amount after a loss and the larger amount after a win. However, this kind of betting system fails when you experience a win, loss, win, loss type of scenario. In such cases, it is advisable to bet an equal amount on each hand.

D’Alembert is a simple linear system named after the eighteenth-century theorist Jean le Rond d’Alembert. In this system, you raise your bet by a fixed amount if you lose and lower it by a fixed amount if you win. The Anti-Martingale system requires that you double your bets after a win instead of a loss, the reverse of the Martingale system. There is a high probability of a small loss and a small probability of a huge win, as when you lose a bet you have wiped out your wins plus one unit.

Although there are various other kinds of blackjack betting systems as well, no one can guarantee positive results. Therefore, it is advisable to rely on one’s own intuition while placing big bets.

By: Kevin Stith

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Betting on football has its charm and many people make a living out of it. While having a lot of advantages, betting on football games hides some significant risks as well. In the following lines we will try to go through the main pros and cons of football betting.

Advantages of football betting.

1. Profits are tax free. Winnings of your bet can be 100% tax free if you use spread betting system. Otherwise you will have to pay Capital Gains Tax.

2. Low investment. You can gain a fortune if you place correct bets on even a single football game. So bottom line is that you get huge profits with minimum investment.

3. Save the broker commissions. In most cases betting on football games using the spread betting system can save you the broker’s commissions.

4. Free betting on football is often available especially online. This is a convenient way to learn and get accustomed to betting if you are new to it.

Disadvantages of football betting.

1. A serious disadvantage of betting on football is that you can easily spend more than you can afford. Many people make this mistake simply because they didn’t do the calculations right or just because they hope to win and put all their money on a single bet. It is of utmost importance to know that in some occasions you can loose more than your initial bet.

2. Betting on football as well as on any other game is time consuming task. To make yourself successful you need to dedicate a lot of your time in researching your team as well as all of the teams they will play against. Failing to do this can result in huge losses over time.

3. It is natural that most of the people who are into betting will deny it but the reality shows that once you start you will want more of it. Since you cannot always win, be prepared to lose in a smart way. This is easily achieved if you learn to bet safely and allocate a specific amount of money you will use for betting for a specific period of time. Also it is good to devise some rules for the money you will win from betting. It is wise to use part of them to bet again and another part for your general needs.

By: Ashish K Arora

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Do online casinos cheat? If you’re thinking about beginning online gambling, it’s a question you want answering. After all, gambling is risky by its very nature – you don’t want to add to that risk by playing somewhere that’s going to cheat you out of your winnings, or not allow you to win at all!

But there are gamblers out there who will still tell you that all online casinos are rigged, that ‘impossible’ things happen too often for them to be truly random.

This is a misconception, but it’s fairly common, and due I believe to a number of things:

Reason #1 – when you’re gambling online, you can play many more games per hour than you can in a land-based casino. You’re playing alone, so you don’t have to wait for others to place their bets or be paid out. There are no physical chips or cards or balls, so there’s no ‘clearing up’ to be done between games. The cards are dealt quicker, the Roulette wheel takes less time to spin, the dice are always ready to be thrown.

Because of this, unusual things will occur much more often than in ‘real’ casinos. They’ll not occur more frequently in terms of probability, but they will in terms of actual time.

For example, the chance of getting 6 consecutive blacks in Roulette is approximately 1 in 64. If it takes two minutes between spins of the Roulette wheel in a real casino, this event will only occur once every two hours. If you’re playing 3 rounds a minute (possible in an online casino), it will occur every twenty minutes! In both cases, the probability is the same, but the impression is that an unusual event is happening far more often, which must be because the online casino is rigged!

Reason #2 – when you play online, you’re playing alone. I touched on this above, explaining how this affects the speed of games, but there’s an important psychological implication to this, too. If you play Blackjack in a real casino with four other players, even if you don’t win for a few rounds, the likelihood is that someone at your table will.

You could easily go ten hands without winning, but because you see others winning and, therefore, see the casino losing, you believe that the casino is honest.

Online, you focus purely on your own results. Suddenly, because you don’t see anyone else win or the casino lose, those ten losing hands seem to be against all probability. The reason? Clearly, the casino must be rigged!

Reason #3 – everyone involved in online casino gambling has to be honest about this: in the early days, some casinos cheated. It’s an unfortunate fact, and for many years did nothing to improve players’ confidence in the honesty of online casinos.

Fortunately, things have now changed. The online casino industry is one of the most regulated of all businesses. Those ‘rogue’ casinos have been run out of town – named and shamed and blacklisted by the numerous industry watchdogs.

These industry ombudsmen exist to uphold the image of fairness and reliability and will step in to investigate and resolve any player disputes. So long as you’re playing at a regulated casino site, you’ll be protected against any wrongdoing.

In the UK, things are even stricter. Since the Gambling Act was enforced last year, only regulated casinos are allowed to advertise or be promoted. In this case, regulated means licensed in an approved jurisdiction. This caused major headaches as many of the biggest casinos suddenly found themselves outside this so-called ‘White List’. Most have now moved operations to places such as Malta, but some have resisted and are now unable to promote to UK and EU players.

In conclusion, online casinos don’t cheat, they’re not rigged and they are fair.

Before you start to gamble online, you’d be well advised to check out your options. Many thousands of so-called ‘portal sites’ exist whose job it is to compare and contrast online casinos and recommend the casino that will best suit your needs.

My advice to anyone contemplating online gambling is to visit one of these portals, safe in the knowledge that the casinos recommended there are licensed, regulated and – above all – honest!

By: Andy Follin

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