Molly's Online Poker and Sportsbook Guide

There’s no disputing the tremendous appeal of football, but with a new NBA season stretched out in front of you, your entire week just got that much more interesting.

From a betting perspective, football and basketball are very similar. Both are bet primarily using pointspreads. But with more games played over the course of a season, basketball gives you more betting opportunities.

Let’s say you’re primarily a trend bettor, someone who likes to bet home dogs. Well, you’re going to get five times the number of home dogs to bet on in the NBA. Whatever your style of betting, you’re going to get more of those sorts of opportunities betting on basketball. more about betting on football and basketball...

I’ve been asked this question before...a lot. Handicappers that use a star system typically suggest playing one unit per star. A one-star play should be bet for one unit, two-stars for two units, etc. with a unit being 2-3% of your bankroll. Thus, if you have $5000 to bet, you would bet $100 per unit, $100 on a 1-star play, and $500 on a 5-star play. Ignore those who advocate 10-star or 50-star games or sell ‘locks’ – locks are for doors, not sports betting.

That means your biggest bets are five times your smallest and would be as much as 15% of your bankroll, so be careful there. I suggest you monitor the different success rates for the one, two, three, four and five star plays. If the small unit plays are not good enough to get a big bet, maybe they aren’t good enough to be bet at all. more about parlays...

When you are betting football and basketball spreads and totals and laying 110 to win 100 on every bet, you need to win 52.38% of your bets just to break even and cover the juice you pay to sportsbooks. It could be argued that anybody could win 50% of games by flipping a coin or by having your dog pick teams (which I find annoying as I struggle to hit that mark some weeks) so the tough part is finding enough overlays to boost your win percentage above the 52.4% mark. However, there are other ways to boost your win percentage, one of which is shopping for the best available line you can find. more about line shopping...

There has always been spirited discussion in relationship to investing in the stock market versus the merits of being a professional gambler. For years the folks who head on over to Wall Street to make a living have been looked upon as individuals with a strong analytical business mind, that have had years of college education. This background has persuaded many individuals with excess capital to trust their finances with these speculators.

On the other side of the fence sits the sports handicapper, who for many years, has been watching and reading about various sports teams and individuals. They analyze the draft every year, study the injury report, pour over statistics that reveal how their team plays at home, on the road, indoors or outdoors, cold or warm weather and then decide with at least a 50% chance of winning, what team or individual they should wager on.more about sports wagering...