Does anyone know why so many people lose at sports betting? Most think it is because of poor handicapping. While this can be true, it is not why most people lose. We know hundreds and hundreds of folks that are excellent....
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The concept is universal: buy low, sell high. Stock traders, investors, business owners, E-bay junkies - really anyone who participates in market activities lives by the same motto. Sports bettors are no different. We look for situations where teams are under or overvalued and try to use that in our handicapping....
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We have received a very positive response to our Money Management Series. As suspected, most recreational gamblers know very little about proper money management. Today....
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If I’m watching a game with a group of friends, I won’t have a pen and paper, or my laptop in front of me, taking notes. Otherwise, every game that I watch is an exercise in gaining information. Try not to concentrate on the games that you are betting, as....
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Most casual bettors don’t make a profit from their sportsbetting hobby. This includes bettors who are relatively sharp as well as those who couldn’t pick a winner if their lives depended on it. That’s not a horrible thing....
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The NBA has long been known as one of the hardest sports for bettors to win money at. Since rosters are small and there are a manageable number of teams in the league, bookmakers have been releasing....
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“Winning isn’t everything it’s the only thing” famous words spoken by the great Vince Lombardi. A statement that we here Sharp Money Sports not only fully agree with but strive to attain this on a daily basis. With that....
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The early part of the NFL betting season can be very dangerous to gamblers if they are not careful. We want to remember some basic NFL betting tips for the early part of the season....
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As a baseball flies through the air, the air pushes back against it, resisting its motion and decreasing the distance the ball travels. If you don't believe air can provide much resistance, stick your arm out of a car window at 60 mph....
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Winning becomes a habit whether it's on the field or off the field. I've read about numbers such as 90% is attitude and 10% is putting your thought in motion....
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There was a time when the only way for a gambler in the United States to make a bet was through his local bookie or by flying to Las Vegas. This was true for both the seasoned sports bettor—one who wages on all types of games....
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In this day and age of NBA basketball, players can’t shoot. During the 1980’s, teams regularly played 124-114 type games and NBA totals were set much higher. In the 1986 NBA Finals, the totals for the six games....
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Our approach to regular season NFL handicapping is of the contrarian or value seeking variety. After all, our opinion has long been that most information is priced into NFL lines already. As such, we place....
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In college basketball, we know that there is often a big difference when teams play at home and on the road. Many teams look like world-beaters at home, and then go on the road the next game and look like a bunch of pre-schoolers. Last year....
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A word to the wise sports bettor, SHOP YOUR LINES BOY'S! Tony George here and I can assure you that the vast majority of you are losing 5 to 10 units a MONTH by not having more than one....
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This is a boring topic, but it addresses an issue that every single sports bettor MUST be concerned with. If you consider sports betting an investment - and I do - there has to be a method of gauging how successful your investment is. The only method....
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Lines open where they do for a reason, not by chance. Sportsbooks are designed to make a profit, not to provide a service. The reason so many new offshore books have opened over the past few years (several hundred, at least) is because they...
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There are a number of strategies for betting preseason football that have proven to be profitable over the course of the last decade or so, since the league switched to their current four game exhibition schedule. Betting on the NFL in August is ...
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Most sports bettors are well versed in the intricacies of betting on sides and totals before the game starts. But any bettor looking to maximize his or her profits needs to have the...
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Several millennia ago, according to theological scholars, an event took place that has shaped mankind up to this very day. It seems one of the leaders of the people in that long ago time was summoned...
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Gregory Emmett Paloian has been known to eat paper in public.
Once, he was spotted shoving paper into his mouth at a Super Bowl party at a banquet hall in Lombard,...
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Early Sunday morning, as gamblers flood the sports books, a group of Las Vegas-based "sports junkies" are cooking up the lines for the following week's ....
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Want a free betting tip? Consider betting baseball totals! Hardly anything has been written on the subject. When one handicaps baseball totals there is more to review than just the total runs that might....
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Soccer gambling proved a popular past time within the United States when the World Cup came around two years ago and online sportsbooks catering to this market did not witness the sharp decline in business they normally see immediately following March Madness....
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There are currently no laws prohibiting you from making a wager over the internet. Through all the years of online gambling, I have never heard of anyone getting into trouble because they places a bet over the internet....
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