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Why Parlays Are the Worst Sports Bet That Exists

First, I will assume that if you make a bet or wager on a sporting event you do it in a legal place (e.g. Las Vegas or any other legal place to accept sports bets. It's the only place where I wager on sports. If you're making illegal sports bets, I would advise you to stop and ask that you adhere to the rules. That's enough said.

You know, if you're like me and you enjoy the occasional bet (college football and basketball are my two favorite sports), how difficult it can be to win money. It seems that the people who set the lines for sports can predict the future. They know how many points the team will win or lose. It's uncanny to see how often a 3-point favorite loses or wins by four points. However, I'd have to say that, if they weren’t so good, there wouldn't even be a market in sports betting. Everyone would win and those who take the bets would go out of business.

You will be surprised to learn that there are many different kinds of sports betting. The two most common bets are "money line" (also called "spread") and "spread." Money line bets are where you pick the team that will win. The odds are adjusted based on the probability of the team winning. A team that is expected win easily might pay out with odds of 1/10. This means you'd have to bet $10 to win $1. It is the easiest to win but the payouts are not very high (unless you choose the underdog, in which case you would get $10 for $1).

The most popular form of sports gambling is betting against the spread. In this instance, the odds makers try to determine the number of points needed to make the game more fair. It means that an extremely bad team may get many points "given" them in order to make the game fair. You are betting which team "beats" the spread. Let's take an example. A good team plays a bad one, and the oddsmakers believe that the good team will win by 15 points. The spread would be set at 15 points. This means that the winning team must lose by less than 14 points to be able to win. If the winning team wins by 15 points, it's a tie and you get your money.

This makes sports betting very difficult, as the oddsmakers are trying to make each game a coin-flip. The odds makers want to make sure that every team has the same chance of winning against the spread. This is done to ensure that the same amount of money is bet on each side of the game. The casino will then make money from the "vig" it charges on every losing bet, which is typically 10%. The casinos would love to have the exact same amount bet on each side 먹튀검증커뮤니티.

You can imagine that the casinos don't actually make much money when they only take the vig from sports bettors. They came up with a new type of wager called "parlay". Parlay is a bet in which you pick multiple teams that must all win or cover. You get better payouts if all the teams that you choose win. If you choose 5 teams to cover in a parlay, for example, the payout will be in the range of 25/1. If you bet $5 to win $125 on a parlay of 5 teams, this is what you get. It sounds great, doesn't it? Problem is that your odds of winning a straight-up bet are 50% compared to 3.125% for a parlay. The payout you get for a five-team parlay is not enough to compensate for the risk.

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