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Betting on the sub markets for football matches, can bring great rewards, but they often get overlooked, with focus falling mainly on the fixed odds outright betting selections. This is where some careful planning of betting strategies, whether it is at an online bookmaker like Boylesports or a betting exchange like Betfair, can really help with your sports betting. It is hard to overstate the importance of casting a meticulous eye over football statistics to help your betting. While it may not apply quite so much in making a selection on an outright winner, online betting enables you to take your time and dig a little deeper into individual match markets. He we take a look over some of those sub-market bets which offer a little more expansive choice. The Premier League isn’t the be-all and end-all of football betting of course, but the same principles can apply to all leagues, so that is where we shall look.

SCORE AND GOALSCORING PREDICTIONS
After the Outright betting markets, one of the most popular selections is the Scorecast market. This is where you predict the correct score, along with the first goalscorer. This is a real tempter, simply because the prices look mightily attractive on them. One thing to remember here, for goalscorer bets, is that any one of 20 players can score (ok, 22 if you count the possibility of a freak goalie goal), and 1/20 odds aren’t great. Another factor to add in here, is the fact, the longer the game stays at 0-0, substitutions will come into effect, so that extends the odds, as a sub can come off the bench in the last fifteen minutes and score a winner. Not to mention injuries. Looking at the goalscoring category, you can try and narrow the field a little bit, by naturally leaning towards the strikers, who will be at the shortest odds. Most teams will have a prominent midfielder who finds the back of the net, along with a centre half with a big presence at corners, so pay attention to them. If it’s looking like it is going to be a tight game, hone in on penalty takers. If you are a one man team like Manchester United or Liverpool, then jumping all over star strikers Rooney or Torres should help with your Scorecast betting at places like Stan James.
Check the stats of teams for high goalscorers, but one important stat to also look at for the Scorecast bet, is the penchant your team has for scoring in the early periods of a game. If you fancy Drogba as first goalscorer, for example, but Chelsea have a high percentage of goals in the second half, then check their opponent’s scoring times. If they lean towards early goals, then this could be a tool to help your betting strategies with this. Picking a scoreline itself is tough enough, but when doubling up with a first goalscorer, you are narrowing you odds of landing a winner. The average goal count in Premier League matches is around 2.5 per match, so 1-0, 1-1 and 2-1 and are most common scorelines. An Anytime Scorer bet, is an all round much safer statistical bet, in terms of cutting odds to get rewards. You’ll increase your chances of returns if you select Wayne Rooney as an anytime scorer, as opposed to first or last.

TIMING IS EVERYTHING
Timing has more to do with football betting than one may think. Search the submarkets of any online bookmaker, and you will see time related goal markets. One of the leading markets in this is the Time of First Goal. Bet365 offer two different approaches to this scenario. The first option along these lines is a simple three way choice between: Up to and including 29th minute, After the 29th minute, or No Goals. Again you’re not going to be looking at huge profit, so anything around evens could be a nice little pick up. The No Goals option odds will be a bit longer, naturally, as goals are expected more than none being scored. The second approach to this, and this is where homework can pay off, is selecting smaller time brackets. Naturally on this, the shorter prices will be in the earlier brackets. So, again you can look at stats for the time periods when teams score most of their goals. You can look at 1-10 minutes, 11-20 minutes and so and so forth. If you think the two teams are going to hold out for a long period, then you will fall into the realms of the better odds. Again, this can be helped from studying form and statistics for your sports betting.

FIFTY/FIFTY CHANCE?
There are some interesting fields which can be delved into, which essentially offer a 50/50 chance on the market. The kind of markets which you can be looking at here, is the First or Last Team to Score, Total Goals odd/even. For most of these fields the odds are going to be relatively close, but there will be small variances on the level of opposition playing against each other. Manchester United v Portsmouth, for example, would give slightly shorter odds on United scoring first. Chelsea have scored first in 19 of their 28 matches, with Manchester United having done so 18 times, Arsenal and Liverpool both 17, so they can be backed with relative confidence.
Remember that while there may appear to be a 50/50 chance on say either Man Utd or Portsmouth scoring, there is the third factor to take into consideration which will reduce the odds to 33.3%, and that is the event of neither team scoring. There are not a high percentage of 0-0 draws, out of nearly 250 games this season in the Premier League, there has been just twenty 0-0 draws, which makes up 7.3% of results. If this is still a worry, then look up the high scoring teams and you should be able to effectively reduce the risk of a 0-0 result happening. Ask yourself, how often are Manchester United going to roll out to a 0-0 draw?
Further stats to back up bets like this, is the one that reads that 2.77 average goals per match this season in the Premier League. That leans towards there being goals in the match. If you do want a genuine 50/50 shot at an outcome, then go seek a Goal/No Goal market. Anything around Evens on there being a goal is a fair shout, again bearing in mind the low count of 0-0 draws. Small profit it may be, but at least there is profit to be gained from online bookmakers.

DOUBLE OR NOTHING
Another option, is the Double Chance, which increases your chance of winning a bet, but decreases the odds. This narrows the field of results, by letting you win should two of three match outcomes occur. In a match, there is obviously only a home win, away win or a draw which can happen. For example, if Bwin are offering a Double Chance on Arsenal v Burnley, then you could select “Arsenal or Match Drawn” as one bet. Odds on that aren’t going to be great naturally, but at least it covers your bet a little more, and will offer better odds on evenly matched teams. Alternatively, looking at doubles for football betting, you can split your options a little bit further, by going for a Half Time/Full Time result, or often called a Double Result. This is when you go to your online bookmaker like Bet365, and select the half time result and full time result in the same match, all in one bet. So, for example, you could select “Draw – Liverpool” bet if the Reds are slow starters, but usually come through in the end. You should be able to pick up some pretty fair odds on these types of markets. You can always take the single option on this as well, by just plumping for the halftime result alone (ie. Home, Draw or Away).

HANDICAPS
These are great options for picking up some extra rewards. Asian Handicap betting has become increasingly popular, as you back or bet against a result happening with a handicap in place at the start of the game. These allow for extra chances on a match result, so, for example, if you backed Chelsea to beat Stoke at Victor Chandler with +1 goal Asian Handicap on Stoke, then your winning potential is increased when compared to a straight outright bet. In this instance, if Stoke Win or Draw, your bet will win. If they lose by 1 goal, you will get a stake refund. Asian Handicap betting is well worth exploring and is a little from straight Handicap betting. Similarly if you want straight Handicap betting, then it could be worth investing some time in.

PROMOTIONS
Always keep a keen eye out for promotions from your online bookmaker, which are specifically geared towards these sub-market categories. For example, some bookmakers may offer refunds on lost Score Prediction stakes if a certain player scores the last goal of the match. Paddy Power and SportingBet are great exponents of promotions such as these, but you should be able to pick up plenty of specials and promotions with your online bookmaker.

OTHERS
As football betting is so vast, there are many more submarkets to get into on specific games. Based on the average goals per match statistic in the Premier League, betting on Total Goals has a lot of potential, and that also leads you into the Over/Under markets for matches as well. Take a dip into the Winning Margin market as well on a match, if predicting an actual score does not take your fancy. The point of all this is to explore a little deeper with your online bookmaker, because whether it is SkyBet, Coral or Ladbrokes, you will be able to find deep markets, with reduced risk. These are worth playing with in order to enhance your betting experience and pick up a little extra profit, outside of the regular Outright football bets. Good stats sections are available with most online bookmakers, to help you plan your betting strategies, and spreading your bets can have advantages.

Carling Cup Betting often leans towards the underdog having their day in the sun at Wembley. Aston Villa start Sunday’s Carling Cup final as underdogs to Manchester United, and SportingBet are covering the event with a couple of great cash back promotions. Have a little extra coverage to back up your bets is great, and online Bookmaker SportingBet are stepping to the fore once against with two stake refund offers, one for lost First Goalscorer bets, and one for Correct Score bets.

The First Goalscorer refund will apply if Man Utd goal machine Wayne Rooney finds the back as last goalscorer, then all losing first goalscorer bets will be refunded. With the form Rooney is in, and pretty much being United’s sole source of goals, and with their penchant for popping up for late winners, this is a great promotion to jump on.

The Correct Score market refund will apply if Villa’s James Milner scores the last goal of the match. If the England World Cup hopeful buries the final goal and it messes up your correct score prediction, then SportingBet have you covered, as they will refund all lost stakes on the correct score market.

Will favourites United hang on the Carling Cup they won against Spurs last season? Can Villa top a great season for them, by creating an upset at Wembley. There is plenty of coverage on Sunday’s big match at SportingBet, and new account holders can get a £25 welcome bonus. Head on over to this excellent online bookmaker for your sports betting and check out the submarkets for the Wembley final, along with these fixed odds outright winner odds (for 90 minutes):

Manchester United to win: 3/4
Draw: 12/5
Aston Villa to win: 16/5

The new look 888Sport is worth popping across and taking a look at. The familiar orange and black theme is still in place, but the site looks streamlined and immediately practical. First thing you can’t miss on the home page, is the listing of the most prominent, Live In-Play action, and while you are on there home page, announcements will pop up when a goal has been scored in the football for example. If you want to get into more detail over the live betting, then clicking through will present you with an excellent screen for your selection, listing the in-play opportunities, as well as having a menu to switch to other live sports.

In celebration of their new look, 888Sport are offering everyone free bets! Yes, it’s true! Up until the end of February, the online bookmaker is giving away unlimited free bets, ranging from £8 to £88 (in keeping with their name!) One lucky winner will get £888 worth of free bets from this promotion. The best thing is that you don’t even have to do anything other than place bets to be eligible for these rewards. When you place a minimum of 8 bets during February 2010, 888Sport will reward you with a free £8 bet. If you are a heavier better, then by making 88 bets in February, 888Sport will reward you a free £88. Everyone who has then qualified for their free bets, will be thrown into a hat, and one lucky winner will bag the big prize package of £888 worth of free bets. This promotion is limited to February 2010, so you need to get in quick and register on the site before February 28th.

One of the most notable things about the new look 888Sport is the clarity in its layout. The betting options are extremely clear, and the punter isn’t going to get lost or confused navigating around and adding selections to their betting slip. Their sports book is just as easy to navigate, driven by a simple expandable menu, which is really quick to operate. But along with all this, there are some great betting prices to be found around the site. Dropping by the Formula One season, there is a nice 10/3 price on Lewis Hamilton to the win the Driver’s Championship in 2010. Coming out of retirement, Michael Schumacher is listed as a decent 9/2 bet.

One of 888Sports great football promotions, is their “Choose Your Team option” on eligible matches. If a late goal during a match, late being described as from the 88th minute onwards, stops your bet on the match from winning, then 888Sport will give you up to £20 free in refunded stake. The minimum bet if £5 and needs to be on the “To Win” market, or Last Goalscorer or Correct Score markets. So if your selection gets ruined by one of those heart breaking late goals, at least you will have some compensation to ease the pain. Check out 888Sport’s promotion page to see the list of eligible games this promotion is applied to.

888Sport provide a great online sports betting service, which is concise, fast and looks good. The make over the site has received looks to have done wonders for an already professional service supplied. There is the usual casino, poker, bingo and games to entertain the punter was well while they are awaiting their sports betting. 888Sports enhance their online betting experience, by giving the punter a truly wonderful stats service. Just click on through the betting stats, and you will see results, standings, form and everything else you will need. This service is extended across all sports in their sports book, which can help you with your betting strategy.

Sports betting news, betting statistics and free bets, combine for a great service from this online bookmaker. There is good quality sports betting to be taken advantage of on the site, and take some time to explore their promotions for some extra bonuses. If there’s one more thing worth mentioning, then it is their generous sign up bonus. When you open an account and place a bet of at least £15, 888Sport will return the favour by crediting your new account with a free matched bet. When you make 10 bets of at least $15, the online bookmaker will give you another £15 credit. Do five more bets in the same way, and you will be in line for their final reward of a free £20 bet token to use. There are the four simple steps to earning up to £50 worth of free bets when opening a new account with 888Sport.

There are some immediate rewards for opening a new account with Boylesports. The initial rewards is up to £20 free when you make you first bet. Just open an account with the online bookmaker, make an initial bet on that account, and Boylesports will match it, up to a value of £20. That is just the welcome handshake to welcome you over the threshold, and once you are inside you will be greeted with more opportunities for bonuses, most notably through Boylesports’ generous cash back specials. It is worth keeping an eye on Boylesports, so that you can take full advantage of their daily and weekly cash back specials.

There are some great cash back specials to jump on ahead of the new sporting week. Firstly, if you get in quickly, there are Even Handicap Odds on England’s Six Nations game against Italy. The price can be taken for Italy (+16) or England (-16), which equates to the same thing. This applies to Match Handicap only and not alternatives. Over in the world of Premier League Darts, if any player checks out on a maximum 170 finish but loses the match, then Boylesports will refund all losing bets on that player. In the Bobsleigh of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, if Ireland finish in the top 10 of the two women event, all losing outright bets on the market will be refunded.

As well as offering guaranteed best prices on their horse racing markets, Boylesports often run cash back races, which generally means that if you horse comes in second, you will get your losing win single stake back. Keep an eye on this excellent bookmaker’s site to capture all of the promotions that pop up on a running basis. Boylesports is an excellent place to stop by for your online sports betting. Their sports book is awash with opportunities, from American Football, all the way down the alphabetical list of sports to the Winter Olympics. A nice solid bet in that field, is Canada Women to win the Ice Hockey at 1/2. This is the Canadian Ice Hockey team which just beat Slovakia 18-0 in their first group game.

The Boylesports site looks great, with a blue theme, and the sports book is organised into three parts. First of all there is great racing section, which brings you everything you will ever need to make a bet on the horses. Their clear listing of races is backed up with easily clickable form guides. The racing section has a Racing Radio, an excellent Racing Form and Racing Results guide, with clearly presented information to cast your eye over when making your selection. There is also virtual horse and greyhound racing to enjoy if you are waiting for the next big race to start.

Live In play betting is one of the important features of an online bookmaking site, and Boylesports certainly doesn’t fall over in that department. It is everything you would need, clear, concise and quick to load and update on prices. Boylesports provide great coverage on their Live In Play betting. All of the major football markets are covered very well too, with plenty of action coming from across the domestic European league. There are plenty of different coupons to chose from, and it is easy enough to get to any country from football market menu down the left hand side, which dominates the sports book when it is expanded. There are usually weekend bonus accumulators to take advantage of, and an interesting Mythical Match Betting selection, in which you decide which of two teams will score the most goals in their respective weekend fixtures (these are teams not playing against each other). There’s also a great soccer stats section as well.

Overall, Boylesports provide a generous welcome bonus, and a pretty good online sports betting experience once inside. It is a full and rewarding online experience, without being over the top or confusing to navigate. There are options of poker, casino, lotteries and skill games to enjoy as well, there different sections running their own special bonuses. But even if its just sports betting that you stick to, it’ll be worth it to take advantage of their welcome offer and enjoy betting with Boylesports over the busy week ahead, which sees the return of the Champions League.

One of the main featured promotions on Coral, is the irrepressible Jeff Stelling, who contributes to the online bookmaker, by making suggested selections for the weekend’s football action. The specials from the Coral contributors are automatically set up, so you just have to click on their special bet to add it to your slip. This is a great way to get set up for the weekend, usually running in the form accumulators, or three games selections. As with anything it’s a risk, but it feels good backing selections made from someone as prominent as Stelling, who is close to the game.

Coral’s on going reward for customers, is one of the more unique ones online. Coral offer a 10% cash back each month, on the monthly aggregate losses of your bets with them. This is applicable to all sports and gaming, and represents some great value for the account holders. Having used Coral for years, from personal experience, this is a nice little bonus at the end of the month if things haven’t quite panned out. The offer is extended to all new customers, as well as existing ones, and they are the only online bookmakers to extend this generous 10% offer.

Coral run a great online bookmaking service, with plenty of promotions happening over a busy site. There’s a great column of all the sporting headlines which are happening around the world, down the left hand side of the screen, so you are unlikely to miss anything. Their sports book is great, with submarkets on spots like football, reaching as far as the eye can see, or so it seems on some occasions. They are very good with getting their ante post markets up, and they also offer Guaranteed Prices on their horse racing. Making selections and adding to your betting slip is easy, as everything is laid out clearly, and prices can be seen in either decimal or fractional odds.

For quick navigating, there is tabbed menu bar which can take you to All Events, Today’s Events, Live Betting or Football, Horse Racing or Greyhounds. This really makes finding the right selection in a market easy, and most importantly quick. A punter will easily be led into a flash-driven Live Betting section, which covers all of the major sports, as to be expected. Coral’s Live In-Play service is neatly laid out with all the options for betting, right to hand. Even if you click on a cricket match for example for Live Betting, there is a ticker bar running across the screen keeping you updated with scores from other sports. This way you won’t miss any other of the live action.

The Coral website is loaded with other gambling opportunities, from Casino, Poker, Lotto, Bingo and an awesome Virtual Sports section. If you are looking for something to place a wager on while waiting for real life action to start, then you can find virtual football, virtual horse racing and virtual dogs to play with. Along with their 10% Cashback, Coral really have the online sports betting and gambling world, all packaged up in a very neat bundle. Check out the Coral homepage and you will be lead easily into the world of an excellent online bookmaker.

SportingBet are back with their pretty awesome monthly stake race. After successfully running all last year, the competition, which rewards punters with free bets amongst other things, is back to enjoy! Not only are there free bets up for grabs from this great online bookmaker, there are also some great prizes to get your hands on. The best in technology gadgets from TV’s to laptops and handy-cams can be won with SportingBet, along with tickets to go and see Premier League matches. This is a wonderful way to get extra rewards from hopefully your successful betting with SportingBet.

Entry into the draws could not be any simpler. Whenever you put a pound on a selection from SportingBet’s great sports book, you would normally earn a point towards the draw. However, the ante has been upped by the bookmaker, and punters can earn extra bonus points for every single pound which is put on a multiple bet which is a double or above! It all works on a sliding scale, so, for a single £1 bet, you earn yourself one point. For a double, you’ll earn yourself two points, for a treble three points and so on. The top 150 people who have accumulated the most points, will be rewarded at the end of the month.

So, even if you have missed out on the first couple of days of February, you can easily catch up and make up some ground on the leaders, by playing multiples. SportingBet are one of the leaders when it comes to offering bonuses on their sports book markets and in other areas of their excellent online bookmaking service. It will also be a great time to take full advantage of their most generous welcome offer of a free £50 matched deposit. Yes, just sign up for a new account, and make at least a minimum of a £10 deposit, and SportingBet will match that total up to a value of £50.

Explore the SportingBet website for yourself and you will find plenty of ways to be rewarded, and ways to add a little extra incentive of some of your bets. There are good Live In-Play services to enjoy, as well an extensive sports book. With plenty of horse racing to look forward to, with the Cheltenham Gold Cup in the not too distant future, as well as the kick off of the 2010 Six Nations on the weekend, getting on board with SportingBet as early as you can during the month of February, will help your chances of getting on the winner’s board in their February Stakes Race. Free bets and potentially tickets to the Premier League await you!

Check out online bookmakers SportingBet for some great bonuses on the weekend’s football action. With the big game of the weekend taking place on Sunday at the Emirates between Arsenal v Manchester United, this is a great chance to back up your bets with some great offers from one of the leading online bookmakers. Games between Arsenal and Manchester United are usually feisty affairs, with a long history of rivalry between the two teams, and there’s usually a war of words between the two managers Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson. This is the added spice which can lead to strong tackling and desperate challenges.

Fortunately SportingBet offer “Red Card Refunds”, which means that if there is a red card flashed by the Ref, then all losing bets on any 90 minute market will be refunded. SportingBet’s Red Card Refund applies to all Premier League matches over the weekend. This is a wonderful bit of added security for those big rivalry matches.

If you are a fan of the Accumulator Bet, then SportingBet’s Accumulator Refund could be your best friend. This offers some consolation for those Accumulators of yours which fall agonisingly short. If your accumulator on the weekend’s football (the accumulator must have a minimum of 5 legs) loses by just one leg of the bet, then SportingBet will soften the blow by refunding your stake. This is a great deal to take advantage of, as sometimes the unexpected does happen to ruin what looks like a dead cert Accumulator.

Visit SportingBet’s excellent online sports betting service, and you will find plenty of bonuses and promotions to keep you happy in your betting. All of this is made all the much better by the fact that SportingBet offer a superbly generous free £50 welcome offer. Just deposit a minimum of £10 in your new account, and SportingBet will match that initial deposit, up to the value of £50.

What can one expect from Expekt? A great online bookmaker service for starts, with a great layout and plenty of bonuses and extras to keep you coming back for more. The sports book delivers to the user, a list of all the main sports on the home page. The layout is a little different from what is usually expected, as the sports book is not driven from a left hand menu. Instead the narrower columned layout means that there is more information coming the punter’s way, in terms of site navigation and offers. Clicking on the Soccer Market, the punter will see a long list of markets, as well as how many offers are within that market. Selecting the African Cup of Nations (with 130 offers being presented), you are taken to a main page for that event, listing the outright markets for forthcoming matches.

There are clear instructions on how to make your bet at the top of the market pages, and so, all you need to do is click the desired odds and the selection will be added to your betting slip. Finding Egypt to beat Cameroon at 2.55 was not a bad shout at all, especially as they ran out 3-1 winners. The rest of the other offers are presented above the main betting events, sub markets such as goals, correct score, over/under, substitutions and that kind of thing. There is actually quite extensive coverage on these alternative markets, along with some pretty good prices. Definitely some interesting options to check out.

Expekt also deliver some live streams, for registered, funded accounts. The ongoing Tennis at the Austrlian Open is one sport in particular which is being covered at the moment, and when you apply a very good live in-play betting service to it, there is plenty to be enjoyed through quality of service. For a limited time the streams are free, so it is worth jumping on board now with Expekt to see what they have on offer for your preferences. Even for sports that are not being streamed, you can still enjoy betting on the live event, from American Football to handball. The sports book, which is separated out into tabs of its own, also offers a good results service from sports around the world, and interestingly lists the winning odds by the side of the result. A pop out window will also deliver live scores right to your desktop.

Similarly, a pop out window will bring up wealth of statistical information, for those punters who like to immerse themselves in facts and figures. The statistics can be sorted by sports, and for the football statistics for example, you bring up head to head information. So if you wanted to see the head to head comparison stats for the forthcoming Premier League fixture of Wolves v Liverpool, you can do so, and see that Liverpool had the better of the last meeting between the two sides in December. Along with the league standings, there is also stats for each team’s last five league matches. Good, quick and concise statistical information is delivered, to help you make your decisions about the bets. If you want to plan ahead a bit, there is also a useful sporting calendar, again covering all sports.

Along with the sports book, you can find casino action, games, poker and bingo on the Expekt website. They do run two ongoing promotions, the Supertoto and SuperScore. The Supertoto asks you to predict the outcome of 14 pre-determined matches on a coupon. Get eleven or more of those predictions right and you will be in for a sliding scale percentage of the pot money, with 25% going to a full house of 14 correct predictions. There is also the possibility than money will be carried over in the pot from previous weeks. The Superscore option, is a similar thing, but you have to predict the correct scores of 2-4 exciting football matches. Again the matches will be presented to the punter on a coupon, you just have to make your predictions. With a small minimum stake needed, this is a chance to win big returns.

Check out Expekt today for your online sports betting needs. Remember Roger Milla from Cameroon World Cup fame? Well, if you want tips on the African Cup of Nations, then he is your man, as he writes his picks for Expekt.

Interwetten certainly has the looks. The design of their online bookmaking service, is a personal favourite. The theme is black, white and yellow predominantly, and everything looks so polished as it so easy on the eye. But what are looks without service to back it up? Well, fortunately for the lucky punters who are already account holders, they will know that Interwetten really do bring the best of online sports betting to the home user. First of all they offer a “Choose Your Own Registration Bonus”. You can either chose an immediate 100% matched deposit bonus, with a maximum of £18, or you can build you bonus over time up to a value of £90. This will need checking out on their site in the terms and conditions, but basically you get three levels of 50% deposit bonus. Each time you fulfil the level’s requirements, you can enter the next level and build up the level of your bonus money to a total of £90. That is pretty generous, and if you are unsure, there is a super handy bonus calculator on the second page of registration.

When you register with Interwetten, you don’t just get an account, you get a cockpit! That’s the fancy name for the very good area from where you can manage all of your account business. There are levels on which you can browse the site as well, so if you switch up to “Expert” then you can get to customise how you view the sports book. This will help you to make your experience even more personalised. You can drag and drop features onto a welcome page of your own design, and customise menus as well, so you can see exactly what you want. The Intewetten help section to get you going is extremely good, with fantastic interactive tutorials, but the interface on the site is simple enough to navigate without problems anyway.

The main area on the sports book is filled with the latest live betting events, which are hard to miss. Of course, it’s pretty much all Australian Open Tennis at the moment, so just click on a live betting game to take you into the options, with scores that update themselves live. Other quick and easy tools on the home page, are the listing of Bestseller Markets, and Last Minute ones as well. These are great if you are just popping online to make a quick bet, and you see where all of the money is going on the most popular markets, such as the African Cup of Nations matches. The arrangement of bets is nice and clear, and at the side of every bet is an extremely useful stats button to hit. That little extra knowledge can make all the difference you know.

The Interwetten sports book itself looks short compared to other sites, but that is because it has been compacted for efficiency by the looks of it. Interwetten’s major markets are the ones automatically showing, such as Football, Tennis, Ice Hockey and Formula One on the list. Then you simply click on the further links tab to expand the full list of sports book markets down the left hand column. Why this works, is because underneath the sports book, there are the quick links to betting tools, the search tool and the help and tutorials. When the full sports book isn’t expanded, you can access them more quickly without having to scroll a long way down the page. I dipped into the Ice Hockey for the Winter Games 2010 and found a nice 9.00 price on Sweden win outright, which is good for an each way bet.

The betting slip is a nice clear yellow, sitting over on the right hand side, and while adding bets to it, you can also configure your accumulator betting and multiple-way bets from a separate tab within the same slip. Interwetten do also suggest their own Accumulator Bets, which are worth looking at. They can be found at the bottom of the main sports page area. There you can chose from a favourites combination, a risk combination, and a special combination, which will immediately be added to your slip. The odds are laid out for you, a stake suggestions, and of course, the attractive looking profit totals which can be made. So, whatever level of gambling you are comfortable with, there should be a ready made combination for you!

All in all, Interwetten looks great and performs with excellence. There is also a casino and games to entertain the punter as well, so there is plenty to do on the site. They are worth taking a look at for your sports betting needs, so why not jump into your own cockpit and fly on over there. Check out which registration bonus will suit you the best, and enjoy browsing around the site. The punter is given plenty of clear information about betting options if you are looking to expand your betting knowledge. For example, if you’ve seen the banker option before, but never checked it as part of your accumulator, Interwetten’s brilliant explanatory help guides will clearly lay everything out for you. This level of service counts for a lot when you are looking to bet with confidence.

Following the link to Centrebet from our pages, you can earn yourself an exclusive £35 free bet when you open a new account with the online bookmakers. As with most welcome bets, this could not be simpler to pick up. Simply go to their website following this exclusive link, and open yourself a new account. When you register, enter the promo code you are given on the page and make your deposit. When you place a wager for the first time, Centrebet will match that bet up to the value of £35. The free bet will be placed on your account immediately, and you can go and use it to make a selection without risking anything of your own money. This is quite a generous offer from the bookie, and one well worth taking advantage of if you have not already. There’s nothing quite like gambling with free money!

Centrebet looks good, based on a black and grey coloured theme. The first thing that you are presented with on the main screen are some of the big current sporting market headlines that you can grab a hold off. Presently dominating things is the tennis going on at the Australian Open Grand Slam, and Centrebet are offering a daily Cash Back Offer on the Men’s Tournament. This is Centrebet’s Advantage You promotion. They select a game each day, and if you bet a player to break serve who then fails to win after getting a break point, your stake will be refunded. For example, the first one they did was Peter Luczak vs. Rafael Nadal. You bet on either player to break the other’s first service game. Once you have signed up, it’s worth keeping an eye on what is on offer there. There is also plenty of choice to get it on with World Cup 2010 betting. Follow the link on the home page of the sports book and you will be taken to the open matches for the first round of the group stages.

If you are looking for quick bets, then the current live action is listed down the right hand side of the page, so it is then simply a click on the event to make the bet that you want. To further ensure that you don’t miss out on a valuable market, Centrebet have a pretty useful Live Sports Scheduler to help you plan. The sports book is pretty good, with coverage on all of the usual suspects when it comes to sporting markets. The Vancouver Winter Olympics are up there, along with forthcoming events in the big markets, plus there is a Special Events section (like Australian of the Year), Entertainment and Elections if you like venturing wagers outside of sport as well.

The Racing section of the online bookmakers, is almost treated as a separate entity. Clicking on the Racing tab at the top of the main screen will take you to what looks like another home page, just full of everything racing. The coverage is pretty extensive to be honest, and they offer a brilliant range of ways to win, with their special bets. They also offer guaranteed best prices, to ensure that you don’t get short changed if your horse starts at a greater price than when you took it on an early market board. The coverage of the horse racing is from around the world, from Australia (where Centrebet are based, and were the first licensed bookmaker to offer online sports betting in the southern hemisphere), to South Africa. So there is plenty of variety there.

Check out their promotions page to further your betting experience with Centrebet. One interesting one found when browsing around, was their Double Doughnut offer, and while that may make Homer Simpson drool, it’s not what is implied. The Double Doughnut represents a 0-0 draw, and if you place a first goalscorer bet on a selected match for this promotion and the game ends up as a goalless bore draw, then you will get your money back. This applies to Australian A League games only.

Everything you would expect from a good solid bookmaker is there. Live In Play betting, a good sports book and some good coverage on the horse racing. While based down under, there is ample coverage on European soccer markets, as well as the North American sports like the NBA and NFL. You can find some decent prices looking around too. Why not go and place an nice friendly antipodean bet and back England at 3.50 to win the Ashes Series in 2010/11. Don’t forget to use the exclusive link from here to entitle you to up to £35 as a free bet