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We'd like to present a piece here about one of our Everygame Casino partners: Everygame Sportsbook. It seems that wherever we turn, sports are getting more and more exciting! Players are placing bets in record numbers at our Everygame Sportsbook.
The NHL season has gotten underway; the NBA is already giving sports bettors interesting storylines; the NFL (American football) is already in its 16th week; and European football (the game Americans call soccer) is deep into the new season.
These are not the only sports that sports bettors like to bet on. There are many classic sports the most popular of which are cricket and rugby. Some people think that cricket is the poor man’s baseball and that rugby is the poor man’s American football but both games require great skill to excel at them.
Speaking of baseball, the World Series is awaiting game 3 in the best-of-seven climax to the long baseball season.
There are Odd Sports to Bet on, Too
How about darts? Volleyball, anyone! Esports make some bettors’ day! Politics may not be a sport in the pure sense of the word but a lot of sports bettors come to Everygame Sportsbook to place a bet given the news of the day. Then there is the stock market!
Everygame Sportsbook Offers Tips to New and Experienced Sports Bettors
We feel that it is our duty to our present and future loyal sports bettors to explain a few things about sports betting that they may have overlooked in their enthusiasm to place a bet. So, here are our top tips for both new and not new sports bettors.
Be Ready to Do a Lot of Research
Sports betting is a world apart from online casino betting. In slots, we tell gamers at Everygame Casino to maintain a sound budget, to know the difference between a slot with high volatility and one with low volatility, to play all of our slots, to play for the enjoyment of the game, and so on.
In Blackjack and Video Poker, we urge gamers to learn the best strategy for every hand because with best strategy, the return to player rate in both of these games is about 99.5%.
In sports, there are infinitely more variables than in casino games. In order to do well in sports betting, a bettor should, as a minimum, do a lot of research for the upcoming games he or she wants to bet on.
Learn the Games You Want to Bet on in Depth
As we said, the variability of sports is astounding when it is compared to casino gaming. Statistical analysis has become extremely important in baseball. In hockey, teams analyze ice position of every player in a game. The wealth of information a team can afford to accumulate is naturally greater than the amount of information a fan or sports bettor can gather but that simply means that sports bettors should gather as much information as they can!
There has also been some statistical analysis in casino games. Here are a few examples:
- With correct play on every hand, the return to player rate in blackjack and video poker is about 99.5%.
- Bet the maximum in video poker so you can go for a Royal Flush if the opportunity arises.
- Always bet on the dealer in baccarat!
- Never bet on a tie in baccarat.
- The return to player rate in slots is skewed. This means that two slots with the same return to player rate might share the winnings with more players (low volatility) or fewer players (high volatility).
- Side bets are generally poor bets.
When you compare the depth and breadth of statistical analysis in sports to the same in casino games, the amount of analysis in sports is like an Everest to casino games’ anthill!
That makes sports betting highly complex.
That indicates the need to study at length and to specialize in one or two sports and at one or two bets in those sports.
Which Sports Should a New Sports Bettor Specialize In?
This largely depends on two simple factors:
- Which sport does the bettor know best?
- Which sport does the bettor enjoy the most?
A sports bettor might know a lot about baseball, as an example. But if he or she likes other sports more than baseball, they will likely be more willing to do the hard study in those other sports rather than in baseball. Keep in mind that young people in many countries grow up with baseball and know a lot about it from early childhood.
But if they like soccer or tennis more, they will study those sports more than they will study baseball.
Try, with all Your Might, to Bet on Your Favorite Team Unemotionally
A lot of sports bets are made on a bettor’s favorite team but statistical analysis does not bear out any justification for those bets. As a good example, if a football team is unlikely to win a game against a top opponent, the team might still win a bet against the spread. You might win an over/under bet even if your team has no chance to win the game.
That means that there is a world of betting options aside from the most obvious bet: who will win the game? The winner of the game means next to nothing if you have a much better chance to win an alternative bet!
Always Walk Humbly
This is great advice for life and it is no less important in something as mundane as sports betting. Being too sure of oneself is often a proscription for failure. Many sports bettors will analyze a game up to the point that they feel absolutely certain that they know how to bet. This is the epitome of overconfidence.
Things develop as close to the start of a game as minutes before. You might have placed your bet the day before but you might be able to hedge the bet if you are paying attention and something untoward happens after you have placed the bet. The kind of overconfidence we are talking about here happens when a sports bettor places a bet and then stops paying attention to that game or match.
Sports Betting is More Suited to Some Bettors
There are people who like to place a bet but slots don’t speak to them. Blackjack and video poker have a great return to player rate of 99.5% approximately. Sports bettors, however, revel in the complexity of sports.
The bottom line is that it is easy to revel; it is a lot less easy to immerse oneself in the complexity of sports betting. For those bettors who can immerse themselves in the complexity of sports betting, that form of betting is often the most satisfying to them.
Everygame Sportsbook Gives Sports Bettors a Great Platform for Sports Betting.
