With the season back in full swing, another international break is upon us and trying to find a result can be trying to find a needle in a haystack, we thought we’d provide you a general betting guide as to what makes a good bet and what makes a bad bet, to maximise your chances of profit.
Of course any winning bet is a good bet, but if it were that easy we’d never have to work again, aside from just general picks, there are a few tips to follow to make sure your not giving the bookies easy pickings.
AVOID MANIC MULTI BETS
As tempting as it can be to chuck down a pound on a massive ten fold, in the dreams of winning back 1000s is simply a gamblers fallacy. It is damn near impossible to predict ten correct results, and even half of this would be quite the feat. It often makes the news when someone wins one of these bets so it is very rare, and pretty much a lottery. As Wolves proved at the weekend, there are no guarantess in football as they beat Man City 2-0 away at a huge price of 20/1, the correct score was 150/1. I bet many coupons had man city in, and at the price its simply not worth betting. Sometimes a larger stake on a logical bet, is the best way to make profit. For example if you took our Forest to beat Stoke tip a few weeks ago, a £10 stake on them to win would have returned £32, at this point you can take back your original stake and you are playing with pure profit. Another £10 bet on Charlton to beat leads at 11/2 would then return you £65, meaning for a total bet of £10, you can take away £77 profit from just two games. This prevents a dilemma as to whether to cash out if you were to do a double and if forest had lost, you could still try and reclaim the loss by staking a single on the Charlton game, meaning you would still be up.
DONT BET FOR THE SAKE OF IT
If you aren’t really feeling confident about the fixtures, avoid betting and just keep an eye out for any surprising results based on the value before hand. Just picking teams at random while looking down a coupon is senseless as it is pretty much a lottery. Have a look at the other markets available and don’t just follow the odds. Without sounding cliche, anything can happen in football and the top teams are often no value whatsoever. So dont just pick 5 of the lowest odds teams from around europe in the hope they all win, it is actually very rare for all of the league leaders from the top 5 leagues to win simultaneously and how much do you really know about the current state of Serie A? Certainly not enough to wager your hard earned money on.
BET BUILDERS
Bet Builders and Request a Bets have really increased in popularity over the last few years, once again, avoid cramming lots of unlikely occurrences in the same bet and try to keep it to a maximum of 3, there is nothing worse than having 3/4 right and realising your 3 selections would have been more than an ample return, avoid corners and the correct score, but do look at bookings as sometimes the way teams play increase the chances of certain positions getting booked. For example if Ashley Young is the starting fullback against Liverpool, at some point Mo Salah will probably get past him and he is experienced enough to know when to take the yellow card for a professional foul. So he would be worth a bet in this instance, but the odds might be quite short, so once again look for value. In play bookings can be profitable too, if you see a player getting frustrated or totting up the fouls, it might be worth a small stake as you can see your chance becoming more likely in front of you.
AVOID REPEAT BETS
Sometimes you can look at a bet and feel dodgy about one selection, so it can be tempting to re stake without that selection and add something else, avoid this as it can lead to multiple bets losing on the same selection and there is really no worse feeling, don’t try be over clever and bet every result in a certain game, as inevitably it will be another game that lets you down.
