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Popular Soccer Betting Tips

Betting on football is very popular around the world, but it can be extremely frustrating if you don’t know how to bet and win. While there’s no shortage of stories about punters who won thousands after staking $50 or less, all that most punters know is the drowning feeling of losing an accumulator to a last minute goal. Some continue to wager week after the other hoping for a big payday, only for the whole exercise to end up being costly.

Here are some of the most popular soccer betting tips that will help you win:

  1. Do Your Research

The first rule in soccer betting is that every punter must gather enough information before placing a bet on any outcome. Study a team’s form, statistics, head to head comparison, and the team news to be able to make an informed decision when it comes to betting. That’s because this information will allow you to take an analytical approach when determining which outcome might occur.

For instance, if the top team on the league table is playing a club in the relegation zone during the middle of the week, the leading team will be priced as the favorite. However, there are still several other factors that may affect the outcome of such a game.

Though most people will take the positions in the league as a good indicator for a win, the bottom team might give their best for the game. There are also chances that the top team will rest their key players while playing lesser opponents to keep them fit for bigger challenges.

  1. Remain Analytical

Though you will get great market odd when you bet on football with Betway Kenya, always avoid betting on impulse. Avoid letting your emotions run wild when betting and place your bets solely based on the research. Depending on the odds to know the possible outcome is a sure way to lose your money.

Backing with your heart also makes you bet on your team or your favorite player to score, ignoring the form of the player or the opposition’s strength. Some punters get lucky often and win when they back big teams, but those who support teams in the relegation zone lose more than they win every season. That means you should remain analytical and only bet on matches that you’ve gathered enough info.

  1. Keep A Record Of Your Lines

Though some bookies like Betway keep a record of all your bets, it’s important to have a separate record on a note pad. Keep a clear note of your losses and wins, as well as your stake on each combination to know exactly how much money you’re giving away. You can also add notes to help you move forward and improve your betting strategy.

At the end of the week or a month, you should tally your results and look at your overall profit or loss. If you’re experiencing constant losses with accumulators that promise big returns, consider changing your betting tactics next time. You might also consider backing a few teams in a single accumulator or placing singles bets, even though the returns are not as huge.

Remember You Won’t Always Win

If there’s a bullet proof way to win every time you bet on football, then the bookies would be out of business. However, you can use the three tips above to increase the number of times you win your bets every season.

An Introduction to the Best Sport Betting Strategies Part 2

We continue our series of articles on the best sports betting strategies both new and professional bettors can employ to improve their chances of winning.

In the previous part, we covered Focusing on one team and betting with not more than 2% of your total bankroll.

In this article, we look at two more strategies you should use if you want to boost your chances of winning especially in the long term.

  1. Use Software for Access to Advance strategies

If you take professional sports betting as a career, you may have to use some software like that being sold by Sports Insight and Swish Analytics to help you develop personal winning strategies.

These software come with a huge database of information that would otherwise be almost impossible for you to get to grips with. The information you would get from these databases includes Team vs team, Money Line range, opponents form, opponents rank, and favourite or underdog teams.

With this software, you can put a number of variables together and see how these teams play when they are up against a specific opponent and other trends that would be hidden from the public.

You would also have access to database calculators that would offer a couple of options when you want to bet on a certain match.

Why use Software

Because of the access to several tools today, professional bettors use software to narrow down variables, spot trends and come up with winning strategies.

I can be very tough initially when you begin to use these software programs because of the volume of information you would have to deal with.

However, if you spend some time playing around with it, you would quickly become a professional at using them.

With time, by using these software packages you will become great at spotting trends even without the use of the software.

What using software wouldn’t do for you

While the use of software helps us to gain advance statistical analysis of games, it does not guarantee that your bet would win. It only gives you access to small start that could improve your chances of winning the bet.

Another major flaw in using the software in betting is that it takes some of the fun out of sports betting.

 

Use ATS Record to Bet

Vegas lines determine one of the most used information about how teams perform against the spread (ATS).

Thus, finding ATS records is easier than any betting tip as most websites worldwide publish them across all sports.

For example, you could look up the Golden State Warriors who have an 18-13 win-loss record. This looks very promising on the eye, but you would be surprised to realize their ATS record is 12 – 19.

If you judge the Warriors only on their ATS record, they would not be an attractive bet.

What’s even better is that you can use trends to back up the ATS record.

But these trends can only be gotten when you work with advance software.

Why you should bet with ATS record

You should be with ATS because the goal of spread betting is to be able to guess correctly who is able to cover the spread.

While it is not advisable to ignore other stats, ATS should be one of the top criteria which determines your betting strategy.

What ATS Betting will not do for you

Looking at past ATS records is a useful exercise, but it doesn’t help much in predicting the future outcome of games. This is because every new opponent has the ability to present new challenges that would not be covered by how a team performs ATS in their previous matches.

A complete guide to the basic bet types

Just like you can never win any sport you don’t understand or know how to play it if you do not have the understanding of the basic bet types, it becomes almost impossible to place the right bet.

In this article, we would be explaining three basic bet types; Handicap, Totals, and 1x-2. Continue reading to learn more about them.

Bet Types: Totals

Totals is a bet type that is also popular albeit as an alternative to Handicap Betting and 1x-2. Here the focus shifts from finding the winner of a particular game to predicting what the outcomes of a few game variables would be. These variables could be any easily quantifiable variable such as goals or points.

For this type of betting, bookmakers would offer the bettors the option of choosing whether the total goals would be OVER or UNDER their personal assessment of the game.

For example, in a situation that a Champions League game between Chelsea and Napoli is being considered, the total goal mark is placed at Over 2.5 (2.080) and Under 2.5 (1.909).

If a £10 bet is placed on the game to have over 2.5 goals, and the match ends at 2-1 (3 goals scored) the bettor would make a return £20.80, making £10.80 profit, but would have won nothing if he had bet that the total number of goals would be Under 2.5.

Bet Types: Handicap

Betting in handicap is the most valuable type of betting when one team is a heavy favorite in a game. Bookmakers offer handicap in order to level the playing field and counter the bias in the teams’ abilities.

The handicap is factored into the game’s final result to determine its final outcome for betting purposes.

For example, the handicap for a game between Chelsea and Napoli would be; (+0.5, 2.020) for Chelsea and (-0.5, 1.917) for Napoli.

If Napoli wins 1-0, betting than Napoli would win as the 0.5 handicap would not be enough to change the outcome.

If the result turns out to be stalemates say 1-1, betting on Chelsea to win as the 0.5 handicap and adding that to their result is good enough for the game to be turned in their favor.

However, the handicap is not only limited to the above scenario and can also appear in a different way for example as a split, like -0.5 & -1 or +0.5 & +1. In this case your stake is taken and placed in double handicap bets for you, and placing you in a position to win both, lose both or win one of the bets.

Bet Types: 1×2

1×2 betting is arguably the most popular betting form at the moment, and also the easiest way for a bettor to get to grips with the cost of betting. We would continue using our example of a Champions League game between Chelsea and Napoli to explain this also.

If you bet £10 that Chelsea would win at an odd or 4.250, a victory for Chelsea would net you a profit of £32.50. However, if the game ends in a draw or defeat for Chelsea, you would earn nothing.

If you bet the same £10 on a draw, you would earn a profit of £27.90, while placing the same bet that Napoli would win would net you £9.17 profit.

After understanding 1x-2 betting, the next step is to understand how its odds vary with different bookmakers.