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How to Bet the NFL Preseason

By Steve Rieder @AvoidtheVig Want to bet NFL Preseason Football? You most certainly can, unless, of course, you want to bet more than a...

How to Bet the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the most heavily bet game of the year, but there are many bad bets. We identify the best way to make money during the SB!

How to Bet the NFL Playoffs

What is the difference between the NFL Regular Season and Postseason? We identify how to handicap the NFL Playoffs and make money.

How to Bet the NBA

Win Percentage With the traditional NBA vig being -110, a bettor needs to win 52.38% of the time just to break even. Anything more, is...

A Bad Bet vs. A Lost Bet

In sports betting, most bettors view a bet being good if it wins and bad if it loses. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. ...

How to Bet NFL London

Since 2007, the NFL started traveling over to London, England to play in Wembly Stadium. The reasons the NFL started to send teams over...

How to Bet Thursday Night Football

On November 23, 2006, the NFL hosted Thursday Night Football for the first time in a game that featured a Denver Broncos loss to the...

Everything Sports Betting

What is a Point Spread? The point spread is the perceived difference between two teams in a given game. In the example below, the...

7 Mistakes Novice Bettors Make

Even the sharpest sports handicappers once broke into the profession as a square. They made the same mistakes as every novice bettor...

How to Bet - NFL Week 3

With the summer slide finally worn off, teams on both side of the ball are beginning to hit their stride in NFL Week 3. Devastating...

How to Bet - NFL Week 2

Once the Super Bowl and the ticker tape parades draw to a close, football enthusiasts and bettors alike endure the NFL Draft, training...

How to Bet Injuries

An NFL injury can take the fragile hopes of a championship contender and destroy it faster than a middle linebacker can snap an anterior...

The Weather and Sports Betting

There are an infinite amount of factors to consider when handicapping a game. The world's best sports bettors are those that are able to...

What is Chasing Steam?

There are sports betting syndicates that pool their resources, most importantly cash, and bet simultaneously to get down as much as they...

Contrarian Sports Betting

Regardless of season, sport, or location, sportsbooks generally average between a 5-7% hold on all bets. Approximately 90% of all sports...

NFL Key Numbers

The most common NFL bet type is the point spread. The point spread is the difference between two teams at the end of the game. Because...

Bet Early or Late

When the lines are posted, the sharps analyze the lines and pounce on any perceived value. With such a limited handle, the books usually...

Shopping the Line

Being a consistent winner at sports betting is extremely difficult. The difference between winning and losing, sharps and squares, can...

What are Future Bets?

Think you know which team will win the Super Bowl, who will hit the most home runs, or who will win the Heisman Trophy? You can can put...

What are Power Rankings?

One of the major difference between sharps and squares is that sharps bet numbers and squares bet teams. The most successful sports...