Snooker Betting Online

Snooker is one of the quintessentially English sports, and snooker betting is a way for a punter to take the love of the game to another level. Snooker is growing in popularity as more and more people learn to play. The exposure that the World Snooker Championships have been getting during the televised matches hasn’t hurt either.

While playing snooker well can be a right challenge, betting snooker doesn’t require nearly the same level of skill, thankfully. In fact, betting on snooker has become so popular precisely because it isn’t as complex as some of the other sports betting possibilities. Scoring for snooker is limited, as are the number of players. Therefore, some of the variations that can befuddle a punter in large team sports are absent in snooker betting.

The most popular wager to lay on snooker is simply match betting. In match betting, you simply choose who will be the winner or loser of a given match. You take the given sportsbook odds and place your bet. Obviously, picking the favourite gives you a better chance of winning the wager, but backing the underdog offers more opportunity for profit.

The second most popular wager in snooker is event winner betting. For this, you can’t be impulsive, as event winner bets must be placed long before the event takes place. The odds offered reflect the challenge, especially in this era where there isn’t a clear dominator of the sport. There is quite a bit of profit potential here if you pick correctly.

Snooker betting volumes naturally pick up around the World Championship matches. However, there are a number of lesser tournaments that happen throughout the year, allowing you to have an excellent choice of betting opportunities. The matches that offer world rank points attract a better crowd that those that do note.

Betting snooker is on the rise, and the number of online bookmakers that support snooker betting is also increasing. This increase has been helped in no small part by 888.com’s sponsorship of the World Championships. This partnership will continue until 2010, so look for a lot of matching offers and competition for snooker fan bets from the other online agencies.

The online presence also means that there are lay and spread betting opportunities available. You can take long odds on a maximum break, or simply try and predict the total number of fouls.

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