** One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to think the more you pay for premium football picks or premium basketball picks, the better they are. We can tell you first hand after seeing performances from services charging as much as $300 per month to as low as $30 for a whole season that cost is not relative to the quality of picks. There a plenty of good handicappers out there charging under $50 a month that are consistently hitting in the 'plus units' month after month. By spending less you can afford to catch a bad apple now and then and still have enough to recover by choosing another handicapping service. Stay within your limits, don't spend more on picks than you plan to actually wager. If you want the most for your money use a consensus service. | |
** Don't pick a service by how flashy their website looks or the number of other sites have links back to them. With the exception of sports consensus services who provide you with other cappers picks, Most reputable sports handicappers use at least one monitor service, which either displays their actual records, or at least ranks them by win percentage. Some sports monitor services even rank by sport which is an advantage to you if you wager on one sport more than another, where others may only display a top 5 football pick cappers list or top 10 basketball pick cappers list, which is all you really need. Most good handicappers will also either post their premium paids picks for you to see after the games ended or give you a little taste daily or weekly by displaying free picks or posting plays on free pick monitor services. Although this is not always an accurate representation due to the fact cappers save their best plays for the paid members, it can still give you a little insight. | |
** Watch out for clone sites. Many handicapping sites are amateurs that are taking a free ride form a sports book looking to promote their own betting site or casino. This is a much larger problem than you may think. After searching for a service you begin to notice that it almost seems like you keep going to the same sites over and over, but the colors are a little different, and the graphics have changed, even the layout has been shuffled a bit, but the general format and all the links on the page are the same. Most importantly, they all have the same 1 or 2 exclusive sportsbooks advertisements only! If you spend any time surfing the net looking for handicappers then you know exactly what we mean and exactly who they are. These guys are just flooding the market for advertising purposes by buying you a domain name and setting you up with your own site. In most cases the person making the picks has little or no advantage over your own picks. We advise moving on to another service. | |
** How to read the betting odds If you are new to sports betting online, one of the most confusing things is how the betting odds (also known as betting lines) are displayed. The majority of bets are referred to in relation to $100. If there is a minus symbol in front of the number (eg -130) then the number refers to how much you must bet in order to win $100. So, for example, if the betting line is -170 you must bet $170 to make a $100 profit. If the betting line is -300 then you must bet $300 to make $100 profit. If the number is positive (eg +150) then it refers to how much you will win when you bet $100. So, if the betting line is +170 then you will make $170 profit for your $100 bet. Remember always that you also get your stake back. So, if you bet $100 at +170 and your team wins then you get $170 profit plus your $100 stake back, for a total return of $270. The fact that everything is expressed in terms of $100 does not mean you need to bet $100 every time. If you bet $10 at +170 then when you win you get $17 profit.
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