How to bet on sports to make money?

98% of people who play bets are left with their nose or even without it if they try to win back. 2% are professional players, people who “know something”. A lot of useful information can be found on the Internet, but nothing can replace live experience. We asked a guy from SA RsaBet.co.za, who has been earning his bread and butter and caviar for 12 years now, to share his experience. He wished to remain incognito – hurray, this time no one can accuse us of advertising.

First Steps in Betting

Get this through your head (categorical justification by experience) a few golden rules for the novice gambler. Don’t bet more than you’re willing to lose. How much you don’t feel sorry for is the right criterion. Don’t be tempted to win back: this idea has regrettable consequences nearly 100% of the time. Do not listen to the “experienced”, who whisper about sure things at the bookmakers’ booths, or whisper about supposedly winning information. Bet on the sport, in which you know well. Learn more about online gambling.

Immediately define the rules of your game – the game fund; the size of a single bet; the system by which you are going to bet – and do not change them under any circumstances. A general recommendation: don’t allow yourself to see betting as a way to make money. For beginners, they should be entertainment.

Practice. Being lucky is not enough. Let the risk – a noble thing, leave it to the naive simpletons. Start with the “papers”: make virtual bets. You can track event announcements on your own, draw your own bets and check the results. You can practice under more realistic conditions – sit on the “line” (a list of events with bonus odds at the bookmaker), but bet only on your “paper”. Don’t rush to carry real money after the first successes. Practice for a month, or better, two. Not the fact that you will be able to make a profit. But if you can, you can move on to the real league.

First bets

Determine your bank – the amount you’re willing to spend on bets. From this amount subtract a percentage of your single bet – for example, 5%. Determine the field you will play – the sport you know the most about. Determine how you want to bet.

Bets can be made:

• in a “booth” – in cash at the bookmaker’s office,
• Online – by electronic money. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The most balanced option, as usual, is in the middle:
• Hand over cash at the cashier’s office, open a gaming account, and then make bets online.
• Determine your favorite. Place a bet and keep your fists up.

Types of bets. Ordinary is a regular bet: one bet, one result, one odds. Express – a parlay bet: on a chain of results, the winning odds of which are multiplied.

Betting system

highest odds, lowest chance of winning. A single slip blows the whole thing out of proportion. A system is a bet on multiple events. A complicated scheme in which it is possible to win by guessing only half of the results. But in this case the amount of the bet is divided in equal parts for each option. Therefore, taking a small odds, it is possible to lose even with a winning system. A game that is difficult even to explain, and definitely not recommended for beginners. Live betting is betting in real time, in the course of the game, which determines the outcome. As additional information increases the chances of winning, winning odds decrease.

Requires skill: reacting faster and more accurately to the events of the match than the bookmaker does. Forks The “Golden Fleece” of the betting world: it seems to be a myth, but a select few punters exploit it successfully. A pitchfork is a difference in the odds of different bookmakers, which prevents the possibility of losing. It means one bookmaker puts higher odds on favourite A, but the other knows, for example, that the match is fixed, and therefore gives higher odds on Challenger B. It’s rare, but it happens. If you bet with both of them at once, the excitement disappears – you win regardless of the result. The trick is to spot a fork.

Advice from a professional

Our expert assures us that the key to success in betting is discipline, which can safeguard against gambling. If you know what you’re betting on well and follow your chosen gambling system clearly, it’s hard to lose. The winnings are proportional to the knowledge of the chosen sport. If the knowledge is poor, it is only possible to lose. It is more effective to bet on team sports – the notorious human factor is divided in them by the number of players. Baseball and curling are mentioned by experienced gamblers as particularly worthwhile, as there are no draws and therefore there is a higher chance of winning. Among individual tennis bets are very popular, but risky as well: injuries are common, it all depends on the mood of the player, match-fixing sometimes happens. Play single bets. The mistake many beginners make is the temptation to play at the highest odds, which is offered by the odds. Know this: small odds parlays are a major part of your betting profits.

Better still, you should use a personal betting method, choosing a number of odds according to a system. In this case a small failure will be compensated by other successful bets. If you are able to watch the match, a live bet is appropriate. This gives extra information and increases the chances of beating the bookie.

For instance, only before the match starts we find out that Cristiano Ronaldo will not play for A Seleção Nacional de Futebol de Portugal (or he gets injured during the game). It is clear that in such a case A Seleção Nacional de Futebol de Portugal chances increase. This information makes the bookmaker lower the odds on Dynamo’s win. But if you bet before that, your chances of success increase. There is a chance that the bookmaker will be naive and decide that it will be harder for A Seleção Nacional de Futebol de Portugal to win without Cristiano Ronaldo. Then he will raise the odds for the team’s victory – you need to keep him warm. Statistics and analytical methods are ineffective in life, they are dead figures. The livelier the information, the more valuable it is. What matters is what is now. It has more impact on the near future than information mothballs.