• A History of Sports Betting – Betting per se has been known for centuries. Man has long been speculating on the outcome of future events, and as such spawned branches of mathematics and forms of settling arguments over these outcomes…
  • Arbitrage Betting – Arbitrage is a term borrowed from economics, which refers to it as the practice of taking advantage of a state of two, or possibly more, markets…
  • Betting Exchanges – Betting exchanges, for a variety of reasons, offer much better value than your average bookmaker, and thus they pose a large threat to the bookmaking industry…
  • Choosing an online Betting Site – The online betting industry has ballooned into what is estimated to be between US$80-350bn. per year. As such, online sports and spread betting is a very competitive industry with literally hundreds of sites to choose from…
  • Credit Card Safety – Credit card safety was an important issue when transactions started becoming widespread through the Internet, and it is a credit – no pun intended – to those responsible for ensuring a secure environment for these transactions to occur that it has been handled with such aplomb…
  • Gambling Online: Overview – The legality of betting online is generally dependent on the legislation provided in your country of residence…
  • How does Spread Betting Work? – Spread betting in sport can take three main forms, namely Total Number Bets, Supremacy and Match Bets, and Performance Index Bets…
  • How to incorporate P2P in your spread betting formula – P2P (sometimes player to player, person to person or peer to peer) betting is a very modern form of betting made much more viable and easier to conduct through online sports betting sites…
  • How to place a successful Spread Bet – Unless the bookmaker does something horribly wrong, there is no way of placing a sure-fire spread bet. That is not to say, however, that it is impossible to place a spread bet with a greater likelihood of success…
  • How to place a successful Spread Bet: Horses – Spread betting on horses, although initially deemed unviable, has become much more popular via the use of meet indexes…
  • Legal Issues – The online betting industry has grown remarkably over the past few years, and it can be argued that it still has not quite reached its full potential…
  • Money Management: Betting Pitfalls – A rule of thumb: never increase your bets or bet on more games in order to make up losses. Sports betting as an investment is a risky proposition at the best of times, and without a proper sports betting money management system in place it is easy to lose money quickly – and, more worryingly, exponentially…
  • Placing a Bet Online – Sports betting online today is more accessible than ever, particularly with the boom of P2P betting and spread betting for the professional…
  • Spread Betting for other sports – Spread betting on races seems an unlikely proposition when you consider one cannot come first by a bigger clear-cut margin…
  • Spread Betting for team Events – The most important point in placing a successful spread bet in team events is to be fastidious in your research…
  • Value Betting: Getting the Edge over the bookie – Many people claim that bookmakers’ odds, being configured to exceed 100%, are unfair; to an extent, this is true…
  • Which Events and Odds to Pick – It is impossible to say which specific events and odds should be picked at any given time in the future; that said, there are ways of minimising your potential losses that are applicable at any period in time…