A guide for beginners to the most common sports bets
Category : Sports
You can have fun with every pitch or feel the pain with every turn of sports betting. However, a novice gambler may find it difficult to grasp some of the terms. The basics of new880co are simple. There are basically four types: sides, totals futures, props and futures. We will go over each one and more.
Side Wages
Side bets may be the most commonly placed sports bet. Side bets, also known straight wagers or just wagers, involve placing a wager on the outcome of a game. Side wagers are based on two variables: the point spread and the moneyline. The pointspread measures the amount of points added or subtracted from a favorite to determine if the bet is successful or not. The moneyline tells you how much a winning wager pays the victor.
Most sports, such as baseball, are played exclusively on the moneyline. The pointspread is also assumed to be zero. Many sportsbooks offer runlines, which means that the point spread is 1.5 runs. The favorite must win at least twice, and not by one run. Hockey and soccer also heavily rely on the moneyline.
The pointspread is used in basketball and football to great effect. The moneyline is fixed, or it changes very little, in basketball.
Total Wages
In addition to betting on a winning team or covering the spread, you also have the option of placing a wager on the total score/runs/points at a sporting event. The sportsbook may set totals. This is simply a number that they feel will result in bets exceeding or below the total. If you wager over, you’re betting that the sum the scores of all the competitors will exceed the total. In contrast, betting under will result in fewer points being scored than the total.
Futures
For most sports events where Team A is against Team B, there are both sides and totals. But what about golf tournaments, nascar racing? Bets can be placed on tennis matches. But how about betting to predict the winner of the tournament? Bet on the future champion of the super bowl. Futures are available for bets on any combination of more than two rivals. Each option has a moneyline attached to it that determines the payout. The underdog is the one with the longest odds of winning. You can win many times over if you pick the right longshot.
However, betting on futures has its disadvantages. First, long-term futures can make your stake (the money you bet) unavailable for months. The futures you are interested in betting on tend to be either longshots that do not pay out often or favorites that provide little reward. This makes it difficult to place large wagers. You can have wishful thinking about betting on your favorite team/players.
Props
Prop bets are usually available for major sporting events. Prop wagers can be any type of wager that does not fall under the previous categories. Props can be fun, but the odds are usually low and the stakes require little skill. Every year, there are hundreds of prop betting opportunities at the Superbowl. They can range from the coin flip to whether it ends in overtime. The teams as well as the individual players can be bet. The number of interceptions for a quarterback, or the number running yards for a running back.
Live Betting
Some sportsbooks offer live betting in-game. These bets are actually prop bets. However they last very little (e.g. You will need a separate category for these bets.
It covers all the most common bets in a sportsbook and should suffice for all your bet types!