The excitement around sports continues to be on the rise including around the growth of sports betting. While sports betting continues to grow in popularity, everyone who decides to play tells themselves the same thing before they start “I am going to win a lot of money”. While the mindset is great and the positivity is needed, you must remember to pump your breaks and remind yourself that sports betting is a difficult task. Yes you read that correct, sports betting is a difficult task even for the best sports handicappers and bettors around the world. That is why it is important to know how to bet on sports successfully and to take the time to learn everything that goes with sports betting.
Now you are probably asking yourself, thought they said it was difficult to bet on sports betting but then just a few sentence later that you must know how to bet on sports successfully. That’s right, there are ways you can bet on sports successfully and you must follow them to be successful over the long haul. Just remember, you will lose along the way but you must stay to the course and stay to a method that works for you.
That said, here is how to be on sports successfully:
- Research & Learn About Sports Betting
The first thing anyone must do when they begin and even when you are experienced is to take the time to research sports betting and take the time to learn about it. For example if you are just starting out, take the time to learn about sports betting for one sport and limit yourself to one type of sports bet. For example you decided to learn how to bet on the NFL. So learn how to bet the point spread first before moving onto betting the money line or the over/under. Once you find success move on to another bet within the same sport. This will allow you the time to research sports betting for that sport while also learning how to research the sport you are betting.
- Research and Learn About the Sport You Are Betting
While learning the concept of sports betting is key, learning how to research the sport you are going to bet on might be just as important or even more important. When starting, limit yourself to one sport and limit yourself to maybe researching a few teams you like or who have had success. Learn what type of reports you have to look at, what type of statistics are needed for that sports, learn to read the injury report and also learn how to read the betting trends for that sport. Once you are successful betting on one sport, you can move on to another just remember to manage your bank roll and bet smart.
- Bank Roll Management
We won’t look deep here as we have touched bank roll management many times here at CentSports but you must learn to manage your bank roll and be smart with your money. As fast as you win it you can lose it and as fast as you deposit it, in a blink of an eye it can be gone. Take the time to learn how to manage your bank roll.
- Forget and Move On
The hardest thing for most sports bettor is forgetting that big loss that cost them some big time winnings but they also have a hard time forgetting they just won big. What we mean is when you lose, you have to forget about it and move on to your next bet. Now that doesn’t mean you double up with your next bet or just bet on any game to get a bet in. It also means when you win big you don’t get greedy and place an even larger bet because you want to win more money. You must forget when you win or lose to be successful betting on sports.
- Line Shop
Now this is a technique or a practice you should become really comfortable with not only to be successful but to also allow you to avoid losing money you might have saved. Now line shopping takes place when you look across a wide range of sports betting sites to get the bets odds available then going with that site. For example you find a website that is paying $120 for a Los Angeles Dodgers win on a $100 bet compared to another site that might be offering just $110 for a $100 bet. The same can be said for sites making you pay more to win just $100. For example website site A requires you to place a $110 bet to win $100 where another site makes you bet $130 to win $100. While winning comes out the same, if you lose you will have saved yourself $20.
