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NFL football betting, it’s a beautiful thing. I’m a successful sports bettor in Vegas. I don’t know about you, but I love the sportsbook and I love the NFL. To help make this season the best, I want to give you three great football handicapping tips for the NFL.

NFL Handicapping Tip One

This should go without saying, but watch those lines. Every week there are lines that make no sense at all. Remember, the lines aren’t a prediction. They’re there to split the public’s bet in half. And the public is usually wrong.

If a line doesn’t make sense to you and you see the public all over a side, take a close look.

NFL Handicapping Tip Two

Football parlay bets are lotto tickets. Hey, I know. You love the parlay tickets. Who doesn’t? That’s why they’re there. There’s nothing I like more than walking up to the window and cashing in a 8-team ticket for big cash.

But remember this. Bet football parlay tickets in moderation. Don’t let them be your main source of sports betting. Throwing down a parlay or two each week of the NFL season is fine. Just make sure you’re betting enough sides action to take home cash weekly.

NFL Handicapping Tip Three

Always pay attention to the weather conditions if the game isn’t in a dome. The weather can play a big part in the outcome.

Remember the Seahawks vs. Packers playoff game in the 2007 NFL season? The Seahawks jumped out the a 14-0 lead and it looked like curtains for the Pack. However, the Packer came back and owned the game. Why? Did Brett Favre suddenly hit his stride? Were the Packers just a slow-starting team?

Nope. It was the weather. You see, the Seahawks had a good defense, but it was a speed-based defense and this type of defense needs one thing-good traction. Go watch the game again. As soon as the field started going, so did the defense. Next thing you know, they couldn’t stop me with the ball.

And that’s why understanding the weather and how it will affect the teams involved is such a big factor in football handicapping. It can make all the difference in the world.

If you are a newbie at online betting, then you will be after some direction and guidance? The best Horse Betting tip is only a few minutes away. Its simple with a little research.

1. Do your research
2. Find a good system and
3. Stay focused.

Who you take guidance from depends on your circle of friends and acquaintances, to the level of guidance they can offer you. Tips from your local cabbie or your aging window cleaner might seem generous at the time, but would you act upon them? Your friends on a boozy night in the local pub may have suggested excellent Horse betting systems, but would you actually trust them? And more importantly would you act on their suggestions? The answer to some of these questions at some point will probably be yes! And you will have backed horses and won and on other occasions lost based on the advice given to you.

As a newbie to online sports betting you may find calculating the odds quite tricky whether its fractions or decimal, what do the numbers actually mean? To what type of bets do you place, doubles, singles, Tri-cast or trebles, placed or to win. So many different permutations it can be daunting. However help is available. Most online bookmakers have pages within their websites explaining the rules of betting and how the odds are calculated. This for newbies is a good starting point. It will also guide you through your first bet.

There are hundreds of online bookmakers, many you will already be familiar with such as Ladbrokes, William hill, Bet Fred, Bet 365, Coral and betfair. Its not my position to discuss which of these bookmakers if any, offer the best value to you but to offer you these as examples. A quick Google search with the key phrase “online bookmakers” or more specifically “horseracing today” for example will return hundreds of different bookmakers web sites. This would be a good starting point to help you see what is on offer.

Another good point of reference is Wikipedia. Just type the search term online gambling in the search box within Wikipedia to reveal a whole host of valuable information regarding gambling and online sports betting, although slightly Americanized with its content and references the principles can still be applied anywhere. The Wikipedia information is quite hard going but does offer links to bite sized chunks of information that can be easily digested stage by stage, you may want to bookmark this in your web browser so you can easily recall the information at a later date.

Now that you are more familiar with the different bookmakers you will have noticed that most of them offer free bets and incentives to open accounts, some even offer free horse betting tips. All the free money offers from registered bookmakers are genuine and can range in value to new account holders, from £25 worth of free bets (no deposit required) to £200 matched deposit. Let me explain. A matched deposit of 100% up to the value of £200 means if you only deposited £10, then the bookmaker would only deposit £10 into your account for free. On the other hand if you were to deposit the full £200, then the bookmaker would match it and place £200 in your account. Sometimes conditions are attached to the “free money” so please read the terms and conditions for each site carefully, so you’re not disappointed.

All these types of offers make opening an online account more attractive and there is nothing stopping you from opening many different accounts with various different bookmakers thus taking advantage of the “free money” and “cash bonuses” available. You may even find that some of the bookmakers offer other types of gambling accounts which interest you, like Bingo, or slots or even online casinos, within the same bookmakers’ website, all offering cash incentives. If you are a newbie to online gambling this is one horse betting tip I can’t recommend enough.

Take advantage of what is available online. If possible try to organise all your betting transactions online to help maximise you profits from the bets you place. Once you are up to speed with the betting terminology and the online betting process after some careful background research on Wikipedia and Google and you’ve found maybe a few desperate bookmakers offering you very generous bonuses to open an account you are now in a position to start placing bets.

Find a good Horse betting system and staying focused are two other Horse Betting Tips I mentioned earlier and in further articles I will go into more detail but in brief its simple. Find a betting system that works for you and one you can understand, backed by the research you have conducted into horseracing gambling and online sports betting there are many available, some free.

What I would recommend is you take your time selecting the right one. Look for systems that offer testimonials and have a proven track record, or even a money back guarantee. If it sounds too good to be true it generally is. As an example Bob Rothman has published a book on his system called ‘The Racing Success System”‘ in which he completely explains the concept of value betting and money managements, and there are pages of formidable looking tables to help you decide what the right odds are. However, Rothman believes the true professional must be “as disciplined as a soldier with himself, he must be made of steel. “Gambling is the hardest game in the world to make a living at. The usual state of affairs is that you lose more often than you win, but when you win you get much more, so that overall you show a profit.” “The professional gambler has to learn to live with disappointment without allowing it to cloud his decision making ability”. Source: Horse racing pro, “how to beat the bookies and buy a gold Rolls Royce”- London Irish news May 10th 1990.

This is just one example of Horse betting systems, in this instance of “value betting”, a term you will have come across in your Wikipedia research highlights a profitable system for the long term professional gambler but not without its pitfalls, that’s why my third Horse betting tip falls here. Stay focused, as Bob confirms the professional gambler has to learn to live with disappointment but by staying focused to the task and the system you will overall profit. Remember, do your research, find a system and stay focused.