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GENERAL BETTING STRATEGIES & SYSTEMS

Sports Betting Strategies © online-betting.me.uk

Punters do like to take their own approach to sports betting. There are many different ways to approaching betting as well and betting systems and strategies are a part of that.

Depending on personal preferences, bettors create their own ways of betting, for example looking at a high percentage of favourites, or looking only to spot the opportunities in which an underdog may strike.

Sports betting is varied and in this guide we look at some of the different ways that bettors go about their practice.

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General betting strategies & systems posted so far:

sports betting strategy author
Value-Strategy + Stakes acc. to Kelly Value-Strategy + Stakes acc. to Kelly
2 Favourites and a Draw Out of 10 2 Favourites and a Draw Out of 10
Take Advantage of Bonus Offers Gerry
Betting on Draws Dean
How to Bet in Soccer How to Bet in Soccer
The Most Important Things in Betting George
Distance in Kilometers Between Teams Distance in Kilometers Between Teams
Estimating and Comparing Probabilities Theo
Hedge Bookmakers Bonus-Offers Hedge Bookmakers Bonus Offers
Draw System with Progression Draw System with Progression
Betfair cash out option Dusan
Selection Based on Results and Statistics Selection Based on Results and Statistics
Betting against Favourite Teams Betting against Favourite Teams
Single Bets with high Stake Single Bets with high Stake
Betting with an Over/Under System Betting with an Over/Under System
Select the Matches that You have the best Knowledge of Franklin
Bet on Teams with a better Performance at Home Bet on Teams with a better Performance at Home
Matches with Odds of 1.01 Matches with Odds of 1.01
Using a favourite as insurance Using a favourite as insurance
Using a favourite as insurance General betting strategies

You can find an overview of the best betting strategies at our betting strategies main page.

Betting is all about mathematics and this is where paying attention in school may have paid off. The basic thing to understand is that you are playing not only against the bookmaker but also against the bookmakers edge.

This is the extra margins that they put on their bets to make sure that they collect. So you can do things like work out the probabilities of an outcome in a match based on the bookmakers odds placed on it and then you can make a judgement from that as to the relative value.

But you also have many factors going on in general betting, such as studying form, head to head, injured players, surfaces and trends of a certain team at a certain ground. There is so much around to absorb in terms of statistics, that you can lean towards general betting strategies & systems to help you along.

These are a type of betting blueprint to follow.

The importance of bankroll

Bankroll management is key to all of this. Never bet with more than you can afford to lose and always stay on budget. Maybe you like to keep all of your returns and never touch it, only using up what is in your initial bankroll to start with, or maybe you like to re-invest 50% of it

Managing your bankroll is the most important tool that you will ever need to be successful in general betting strategies & systems. It all starts with your cash and you have to stay in control of it.

Systems are not guaranteed

Even general betting strategies & systems are not 100% guaranteed to win. They offer a good guideline, such as the right time to back a top ten finish in a major golf tournament, when to back and lay on an NFL match and how to make the most out of 0-0 score draws in soccer.

There are systems all over the place and there are plenty of them to discover here at Online Betting. Look at them of course, but don’t put all of your faith in them. Test them out first by playing them on paper only (no cash) for a few weeks and see how it goes. See if you need to make your own adjustments to them.

The bookmakers always have an edge in betting markets but there are ways around it to try and get the most out of your general sports betting. There are some markets, such as F1 racing where perhaps you have just one or two drivers who are ever likely to win a race and that doesn’t offer much value for a bettor. But a general betting system can show you how to play the system to get the best value out of low-priced markets, even if it means backing and laying at a betting exchange.

As with any type of betting, the risks are obviously there. You always hear about punters winning a huge windfall, say from a large accumulator, but those are rare and don’t get lured in by throwing a lot of money at weaker bets.

The slow and steady approach

Betting systems are generally going to push you in the direction of slow and steady. Probably the most recognisable term in betting is Value Betting which is where you can use your own knowledge of having watched teams and in having studied statistics to find options which the bookmaker has undervalued (meaning they have a larger price on them that the statistics suggest it should be).

This is valuable because there is rarely great value in backing favourites all the time and the most simple example of this is checking early odds, particularly in cup matches where one team is set to rest their key players for a bigger game coming up. That raises the stock on the other team pulling out a win and if you get in early enough, you can cash in on value before the prices in the market start changing.

So use general betting strategies & systems to guide you along in your sports betting.

They can help tremendously because they give you good ideas of where and how to find value in all types of sports betting scenarios. Use them to your advantage and take on the bookmaker by being a little better informed.

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