Bettingtypes

Double Chance – Betting Explained

Occasionally, bookmakers may reduce the 3 outcomes for a football match to 2, by what is known as ‘Double Chance’ betting, where a single price is offered on a win or draw. If the backed team wins or draws, the bet wins; if the team loses, so does the bet. With double chance bets there is no possibility for the ...

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Betting On The Money Line

Sports fans who enjoy wagering on baseball and hockey can sometimes be confused by the numbers and symbols commonly used by oddsmakers on the betting board. The key concept to understand when betting on these particular sports is that they mostly use moneylines rather than point spreads and involve simply picking the winning team. So instead of seeing a team ...

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Parlay Betting Odds Explained

When we explain betting odds, how to make a parlay wager is always one of the things we talk about first because it is such a popular way to bet on a variety of games. For just a few dollars, someone could conceivably win as much as a million dollars or more. Of course, this is an extremely rare situation ...

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Over-Under betting

An over–under or over/under (O/U) bet is a wager in which a sportsbook will predict a number for a statistic in a given game(usually the combined score of the two teams), and bettors wager that the actual number in the game will be either higher or lower than that number. For example, in Super Bowl XXXIX, most Las Vegas casinos set ...

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Asian Handicap betting explained

Hang Cheng betting is known to Europeans as Asian Handicap betting. There are some very good reasons why Asian Handicap betting is so popular in Asia. Compared to traditional fixed odds betting Asian Handicap betting is slightly more complicated, but wins hands down when it comes to betting on soccer. Here’s why; There is no ‘draw’ with Asian Handicap betting, ...

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