Basketball Wagering Guides

Good basketball wagering guides are important for those people who are unfamiliar with the basics of sports betting. Luckily, once you learn the basic basketball wagering guides, the information can be applied to many different types of sports wagering. Basketball wagering guides offered by various online and brick and mortar casinos help you learn the mechanics of basketball betting so that you can more easily apply your research and make better decisions on which team to place money on and which games to stay away from. They should also tell you about specific house rules, which may vary from sportsbook to sportsbook.

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Basketball wagering guides include information on the betting line, more commonly known as the money line. Basically, when you look at a match-up, you will notice that each team has a fairly large number next to it. This number could be -150 or +120. Online and brick and mortar casinos spend a good deal of money on statisticians and other experts to come up with these numbers through a series of complex formulas with lots of variables. Basically, the negative number denotes the team that is favored to win and the positive number denotes the team that the odds makers believe will lose. If team A has a money line of number of -150, that means you will need to bet $150 on that team to win $100. Conversely, if you bet on team B which has a money line of +120, if you bet $100 and that team wins, or at least beats the spread, you will win $120.

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Speaking of the spread, that is another important part of basketball wagering guides offered by the house. It might be a number like -4 or -10. It is almost always listed in the line with the favored team. For example, say team A has a -5 spread to win. That means that team A must win the game or not lose by more than 5 points to win the game. If team B loses by less than 5 points, you lose if you bet on team A. If team B loses by exactly 5 points, it is a push and no money changes hands. Basketball wagering guides offered by online or brick and mortar casinos should also offer information on side bets. Although they vary from entity to entity, side bets can usually be placed on a certain player to get a number of points, or pit two players against each other for who will get the most points and rebounds.

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by Bobby Latrel at 1800-sports.com on February 12, 2007


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