Barely a week after rumours of a Rafa exit Liverpool’s title hopes have been reignited. A deserved victory over incumbent champions Manchester United not only brought joy to the ardent support in the Kop, but sending-offs for Nemanja Vidic and Javier Mascherano did extremely well for buyers of Sporting Index’s football bet bookings spread (final make-up 100pts) and the popular Fat Lady spread which awards points for events in the closing ten minutes.

The confidence the players must have taken from that game at Anfield is sure to make the Reds a tricky proposition for Fulham in their Halloween meeting in West London. Although buyers of Liverpool’s win index spread will be confident in light of the team’s four wins from six away to Fulham, spread sellers will know that the Cottagers are unbeaten in their five games in October. Buyers of the Reds’ supremacy spread will, however, point out that Roy Hodgson’s side have lost two of this campaign’s four Premier League games at Craven Cottage, to Chelsea and Arsenal, two of Liverpool’s ‘Big Four’ colleagues. Goal machine Fernando Torres has scored nine league goals already this season, and looked superb last weekend, reportedly at only 80% fitness. Should he be any closer to peak condition, he is sure to scare the wits out of Fulham’s centre-back pairing – buyers of his player performance spread will certainly hope he is.

Top-of-the-league Chelsea have made a largely formidable start to the season and in beating Blackburn 5-0 last weekend looked nothing short of majestic. Even though spread buyers of the Blues’ supremacy were chuffed with a sizeable income, they might also have been disappointed the winning margin wasn’t greater. Buyers of Chelsea’s win index spread will be hoping that Carlo Ancelotti’s side can continue their hot streak against Bolton Wanderers this weekend. Spread bettors looking to buy the Blues’ supremacy spread would be encouraged by Chelsea’s impressive head-to-head record against the Trotters, where they have proven to be unbeatable in their past 11 meetings (W8-D3-L0). On-form striker Didier Drogba has found the back of the net in five out of six in the league, bringing his total up to eight for the season – sure to excite buyers of his player performance spread.

Two challengers to the Big Four’s monopoly of the top league places in recent years also go toe-to-toe on Saturday. Spread punters will be aware that Everton, who host Aston Villa, have had a poor start to the season and have not been helped by injuries to key players. Villa on the other hand reacted positively to an opening day defeat to Wigan and have since beaten Liverpool and Chelsea. While spread buyers and sellers will be fairly evenly split on these teams’ win index spreads, the total goals and goal minutes spreads should be more popular with buyers. Not one of the three meetings between the sides last year produced less than four goals, while spread buyers of goal minutes in this fixture last year will fondly remember Joleon Lescott’s injury-time equalizer for Toffees, before Ashley Young broke Goodison hearts to take the spread market make-up to 265, and the score to 3-2, seconds later.

Understanding online sports betting can be difficult at first. There are so many variable that you can work with which is why it may seem confusing from the start. Yet as you begin to put all the pieces of it in place you can see how it can be a fun way to make some money. What you need to understand with online sports betting is that there are many different ways you bet for a given sport.

For example with a football game you may want to just bet on who the winner or the loser will be. If you wager on it you may get a small return on that investment based on the odds for that game. If the winning team was highly favored then your return is going to be significantly small. However, if you bet on the underdog and they win then you may have more to be happy about with your winnings.

You can also bet on who will win but what the point difference will be. This is called the spread. This is more difficult because if your team winds but that spread isn’t covered then you won’t win anything from it. You should only decide how to wager once you understand what the different variations for it can be. Then you won’t be in the dark wondering if you won or not.

Many people see sports betting as a form of gambling and in some ways it is. There’s a risk involved that you won’t get your money back from the investment that you make with it. However, understanding online sports betting also means you have a good idea of the rules of the games and what the history of the various teams have been. When you do so research before you wager you help to tip the scales in your favor.

You won’t place your money out there in the stock market without doing some research first so don’t do it when you get involved with online sports betting. This is a really simple process too because everything can be done from your computer. This is how you set up your account, check winnings, and find out what you can bet on for upcoming events.

Give yourself some time to learn the basics so your understanding of online sports betting grows. From there you can start to wager more or to have plenty of bets out there at once. Make sure you understand the rules on any given website as well. All of that information should be explained there for you to read over.

Sports Betting Spread

If you are tired of placing the same old wagers time after time with your local sports book, why not think about a sports betting spread that can increase the excitement related with sports betting. If you are asking your self what this entails – Then continue reading to find out what is involved with a placing sports betting spread.

The big variation between this sort of betting is that as an alternative of just wagering on the result of the game, you can bet on more detailed actions throughout the match. For Example, let’s just say that you decided to place a bet on the total number of field goals that will be scored between the 2 NFL teams Vikings and the Packers. It’s the sportsbooks job to issue the odds relating to the total number of field goals that they think will happen. Let’s just say that they set the line at 6. Then your main role as the sports investor is to decide whether you feel that the end result will be more or less than 6 field goals.

Buy and Sell are the 2 main terms when talking about sports betting spread. You should sell if you really feel that the chances that the end result will be under 6 field goals , but if you feel it will be more than 6 you ought to probably buy. You place your wagers per point, so you if you bought at $10 and there were 8 field goals, you would win $20, or if you sold at $10 and there were only five FG’s, then your winnings would be $10.
If you are looking for an alternative to the way you gamble on sports, a sports betting spread might just be the alternative that you are looking for.

They say that humans don’t like change and will often go well out of their way to avoid it. Take a look at your own life and see if that shoe fits you as well. If it does, you are most certainly not alone (there are about 30 billion others). But, just because we have loads of company (misery loves company, remember) is not a good enough reason to keep avoiding good change.

Positive Difference

The fact is that change is often good (and even more often very, very good). Think about that for just a minute. We have incorporated a lot of truly great changes in our lives just in the recent past. Of course, the most obvious example is the internet. We might not all have embraced the whole idea of it in the beginning (innocent paranoia?) but once we tried it out, found our own favourite things and activities there (or soon appearing near you) we got to liking this new way of doing things.

Raise your hand if you were one of the people who were hesitant to get online. Keep your hand in the air if you are also one of the people who now has a meltdown when you can’t get online to do your stuff (banking, shopping, sending birthday cards on THE day because you didn’t mail a ‘real’ card last week, or even doing your job). Uh huh, that is a lot of hands still up in the air (for the super paranoid – YES, we CAN see you through your computer screen!).

Simple Ways to Incorporate Change

Okay, so the point is made. Change can be good. Now, here is a really great idea to get some change into your online life.

Try out some betting sites! If you already bet online, try out some new betting sites. If you regularly try new betting sites, then change things up by betting on a different venue than you usually do. You might be surprised to find that there are lots of activities for you on the betting sites that you haven’t thought of doing before.

Maybe you should try some financial betting if you think you might have a knack for that. Give the reality show betting a try if you are up to date on what’s going on there (we know you have an opinion).

Researchers have determined (and published the data) that people stay mentally sharp for years longer in their lives if they routinely shift their brains to a new activity or topic. Apparently, this shift can actually engage brain cells that we have allowed to go a little mushy and firm them up a bit.

So, the moral of this story is that we should buck the urge to resist change. At least to the degree of doing something a little bit different now and again. If you are an online betting person, then do something really easy to change things up and just engage in a little betting on a different topic. You can also take a few minutes to read some of the betting articles just to stir up a little brain activity.

As the news spread, punters made a dash for their computers to get their bets in with their online sports books. Word was out that the financially troubled Weymouth Football Club was going to field their youth team against Rushden & Diamonds.

It’s being reported that more than £1 million was paid out after heavy betting action came in on Weymouth losing this match…and lose it they did. The rumour was in fact true and the home side cashed big tickets in one of the largest non-league football betting coups.

It all started when the entire team made the decision to go on strike due to not being paid so far this season and that there wouldn’t be any medical insurance for the match. That resulted in the club being forced to start the Weymouth teenage team.

Bookmakers didn’t know what to make of the sudden spike in volume for what would normally be a relatively obscure betting event. They immediately were forced to cut the odds as the money poured in and some even suspended the betting entirely.

Punters were said to be racing from one bookmaker to another and getting all they could down at their online bookmakers as word of the strike leaked out.

The obvious thought was that a team of 17 year olds would have no chance. And that proved to be right as they were drubbed 9-0 and all those who wagered against Weymouth cashed their tickets.

One bookmaker said “Normally £30,000 to £40,000 would be paid out on a match like this across the whole industry. But we paid out in the region of £100,000 and we are 20 per cent of the industry.”

Steve Palmer, deputy sports editor at the Racing Post, said that the match had become “the centre of the betting universe” before the game.

“Nonleague football is one of the few sports where punters can get an edge on the bookmakers,” he said. “They can have superior knowledge and the bookmakers can get caught with their trousers down.”

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The bookmakers you’ll find on the High Street (or whatever back alley you’ve gotten used to) will all have their specialities; football, foreign games, tournaments and all kinds of sports betting. It is unlikely that you will be able to locate absolutely everything worth betting on in any one bookmaker’s, so if you are the sort of adventurous person looking to spend a little cash on gambles of an odd sort, say reality TV programs or poker tournaments, or even the likelihood of one music album release beating another on the top charts, then you’re really out of luck just wandering around the bookmakers in your city.

So what’s someone looking for an odd gamble to do? The best place to look for strange sorts of bets is definitely online. While avoiding the ‘Vegas Vacation’ scenario that finds Chevy Chase spending the last of his cash in a suspicious casino with games like ‘what number am I thinking of’ is always a good idea, online gaming can be very secure and easy to set yourself up with.

The New ‘Old’ Game

Online betting has exploded over the last few years as not only do more and more households have access to the internet, but the medium has become a way for any sort of person to access virtually any service and even move money around without visiting the bank or swiping their credit card. All things financial are available to be done online now and wagering your hard earned pounds on a wee wager or two is right up there on that list. Online betting offers some great deals and opportunities to expand the usual betting pool outside of sports or finance and that is a huge draw.

Aside from finding the unusual betting pools online, you can also cash in on sign up bonuses from different online betting sites. Often simply by signing up and registering your details to a betting website, you will be rewarded with a certain amount of money to bet as you please as a trial of the site. You may be able to use a free bet on a specific event or sport. Some online betting websites will even offer the option of signing up for something of a weekly draw, such as a free weekly bingo card that could win you some unexpected cash regardless of your gambling record with the site. The offers are numerous and checking some of the free online betting deals listed in this directory can get you going quickly and easily.

New and Unusual Themes

Anything is out there now when it comes to betting – you could bet on the time of birth for a new giraffe at the zoo, which players will get yellow-carded at the game, or even just the usual which team will beat the other. It’s all up to you to be creative with your online betting, and to take advantage of all the perks of gambling via the internet instead of making the usual trip to the bookmaker’s. And for the agoraphobics gamblers, this is the only way to go!

Las Vegas Sports Consultants opened Philadelphia (5-5-1 straight up, 6-5 against the spread) as a 2 ½-point favorite with a total of 47 ½. As of Wednesday afternoon, most books had the Eagles at three (even money) with the total adjusted to 46 ½. The Cardinals are plus-120 on the money line (risk $100 to win $120).

“When we opened Philadelphia at -3 this week, it sent our players’ heads spinning,” said Eddie Franks, the Head Oddsmaker at Brobury Sports. “Already 90% of the action is on the Cardinals, who bring one of the most dynamic offenses week in and week out. But we’re not budging yet. Despite two weeks of shockingly bad performances by McNabb and Co., they have more going for them than players recognize.”

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That would be Arizona at Philadelphia, where the Andy Reid-Donovan McNabb Era could be on its last legs.

Las Vegas Sports Consultants opened Philadelphia (5-5-1 straight up, 6-5 against the spread) as a 2 ½-point favorite with a total of 47 ½. As of Wednesday afternoon, most books had the Eagles at three (even money) with the total adjusted to 46 ½. The Cardinals are plus-120 on the money line (risk $100 to win $120).

“When we opened Philadelphia at -3 this week, it sent our players’ heads spinning,” said Eddie Franks, the Head Oddsmaker at Brobury Sports. “Already 90% of the action is on the Cardinals, who bring one of the most dynamic offenses week in and week out. But we’re not budging yet. Despite two weeks of shockingly bad performances by McNabb and Co., they have more going for them than players recognize.”

Philadelphia is coming off an embarrassing 36-7 loss at Baltimore as a one-point road underdog. Trailing 10-7 at intermission, Reid did what he’d never done before during McNabb’s 10-year career – bench him.

McNabb had completed only 8-of-18 passes for 59 yards in the first half against the Ravens. Most importantly, he had coughed up a fumble and thrown two interceptions.

Arizona (7-4 SU, 7-4 ATS) is accustomed to the type of turmoil hovering over the City of Brotherly Love, but not during this 2008 campaign in which the Cardinals are running away with the NFC West. Despite last week’s 37-29 loss to the Giants, they maintain a four-game lead in the division.

The decision by second-year head coach Ken Whisenhunt to go with veteran Kurt Warner ahead of Matt Leinart as the starting quarterback has turned into a stroke of genius. Warner is enjoying a banner season, completing 69.4 percent of his passes for 3,506 yards with a 21/8 touchdown-interception ratio.

Reid ended speculation that McNabb could be done playing for the Eagles by announcing that he would get the starting nod Monday morning. However, it’s crystal clear that barring an improbable run by the Eagles to make – and then advance in – the playoffs, McNabb’s days in Philadelphia are numbered at the end of this season.

And the same could be the case for Reid as well.

Philadelphia RB Brian Westbrook has been dealing with several different injuries for much of the season. He has missed a pair of games and was downgraded to “questionable” this week when he missed Tuesday’s practice. Westbrook has 760 yards (rushing and receiving) on 171 “touches” for eight TDs.

He has the NFL’s best 1-2 tandem of wide receivers in Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. Fitzgerald has 72 receptions for 1,010 yards and six touchdowns. Boldin, who missed two games with a broken jaw, has 73 catches for 879 yards and 11 TDs.

In fairness to McNabb, he has dealt with injuries to several of his top weapons. At various points in the season, WRs Kevin Curtis and Reggie Brown, in addition to TE L.J. Smith, have missed games.

McNabb has a 14/10 TD-INT ratio this year compared to a 185/89 ratio for his career.

“While we don’t expect McNabb to come out firing and light up the field, we do expect a much improved version who will hold onto the ball and manage his offense properly,” Franks told VI. “Much has been said about Reid benching McNabb, but not enough has been said about how this will affect his supporting cast. Reid’s move no doubt was meant to break down the complacency that has plagued this team recently, and we expect that it will be a successful move. McNabb is too seasoned and has rebounded from too many setbacks to not bounce back again.”

Arizona is 3-3 SU and 4-2 ATS on the road. Meanwhile, Philadelphia is 3-2 both SU and ATS at home.

The ‘over’ is 7-4 overall for Arizona, but the ‘under’ is 4-2 in its road games. The ‘over’ is on a 6-2 run for the Cardinals (regardless of venue). The Eagles have watched the ‘under’ go 6-5 overall, 4-1 in their road assignments.

Sports Betting Software

Betting has moved on a lot in the last 15 or 20 years. With advances in technology and the relaxation of betting laws the way people bet has changed dramatically.
Gone are the days of the smoky betting office to be replaced by a modern betting office with fruit machines and drink dispensers. They also now have windows you can see in which is makes a pleasant change.

The internet has proved very popular way to place bets. There are hundreds of bookmaker’s websites that you can have a bet with. Added to the fact there has been an explosion of betting exchanges where people now bet against other people. Well that is what the betting exchanges will tell you. Sports Betting Software

But in reality you are probably betting against a betting bot most of the time. These are programs that automate betting and allow people to place bets quickly.
There are hundreds of companies that offer betting software as an off the shelf solution. Or if there is not a program that meets your needs, you can have one written for you at websites like Rentacoder and Elance.

You can often have one written for you for a very reasonable price as many of the programmers come from countries that the cost of living is lower (they can offer their services at a low price). You will need to know what you want the program to do though. However, if you have a winning strategy this can be a great way to win consistently. Sports Betting Software

Horse Racing Betting Tips

Horse race betting is indeed a great sports betting to enjoy, have fun, and make money. With the convenience of the internet, it is now also possible to participate in this sports betting in the convenience of your own home. If you are interested in doubling or tripling your money, read on for some horse race betting tips that you might find useful in this sports betting.

- Learn everything you can about horse racing. Being informed is one of your keys in a successful betting. Learn about the rules of the game and learn its terminologies. This way, you won’t have to assume on the rules while you are betting your money on its results.

- You may be tempted to bet on as many tracks as you can because that may sound like getting more chances of winning but in horse racing and in any other sports betting, there is always the risk of losing everything you bet. So take time to think about having multiple bets as this can also mean multiple losses, so be selective and wise in placing your bets.

- Only bet money you are willing to lose. Betting in horse racing is a gamble, so before you get yourself involved in this risky venture, try to ponder if you are indeed willing to part with the amount you want to bet. You may be too overwhelmed on how much you can win but always have a reality check that if you will not succeed in doubling or tripling your money, you’ll end up losing them all. One of the important horse race betting tips to keep in mind is to bet only what you can afford to lose. Horse Racing Betting Tips

- Don’t just follow other people’s bet. Most often, there are popular horses in the field and although you might think that you just have to go with the flow, it won’t however give you much history. Explore other betting. Combination betting is one way to make the most out of your money.

- In choosing your horse to bet on, always check its background. Of course, it is wise to bet on a horse that has won in the same races before but avoid hyped horses. Instead, look at those value bets.

- Choose horses that have been into races recently. Other things you need to consider in choosing your horse are class, fitness, running style, the jockey, present form, consistency and of course, speed figures the horse has in his past races. Indeed, one of the important horse race betting tips to remember is to know the horse well before putting your bet on it.

In any sports betting, you need to have discipline. If you think everything is not going your way, do not be carried away by a surge of emotions that you want to get all your money back that you’ll end up betting on everything to win it back.

Of course, the more disciplined you are, the higher your chances of getting good bets and wins. Sometimes you have to learn to accept some losses and avoid defeating it. You have to have acceptance that you will have a your time to win some and lose some. Horse Racing Betting Tips

The F1 betting starts at the qualifying stage. The teams participating in the Formula 1 Grand Prix compete one day earlier to decide the starting position on the grid. You could speculate on the pole position and other standings. You could bet on the qualifying timings. For this Formula One betting even before the event had commenced, you could approach either traditional bookmakers or special spread betting companies.

The next step is for the main Grand Prix event itself. Normally, there are two options of F1 betting here. You could bet to win. In this F1 betting, the driver designated by you should win the race for you to win your bet. On the other hand, you could bet each way. If the driver selected by you finishes in the first 3 places, then you would receive 1/5th of the winning odds.

Another Formula One betting available is the ‘Top Scoring Constructor’. In this, you nominate your choice among the participating constructors like Renault, McLaren, Williams, BMW, etc. If your selected constructor obtains the highest number of championship points, then you have succeeded in your bet. This bet is a very popular one, because each constructor receives some points even in the case of finishing in the first eight places in that particular event.

There are bets related to the Overall Championship event and a few other highly interesting bets. The tips to F1 betting itself are so enormous as to confound you, if you are a first timer. Anyhow, it would be interesting to enter the Formula One betting for the exciting season ahead, the Grand Prix events of 2009. Get to know more about this thrilling pastime and you would not be disappointed.