The Murky World of Sports Betting Systems

After many years of researching ways to make money you invariably stumble across a website that asks you to sign up to receive information regarding a “simple and easy” way to make £1000+ per day betting on sports. Temptation, cynicism and hope have led me to request this information many times and lead me to writing this article. Betting on sports looks easy as surely we can pick out winners? After all, we watch enough sport and we are all armchair experts, or so we believe.

I admit I watch more sport than the average viewer. I have an astonishingly high frequency of correct answers across a myriad of sports when I watch the UK TV show “Eggheads”. Unfortunately History, Geography and Arts and Books expose my gaps in other areas of quizzing. But we do not bet on History, we bet on sports! In terms of making money from Sports betting, my knowledge of Sports (apart from Rugby League and Cricket which I know little about), is more than adequate and surely I am all set to make a fortune from using that knowledge to make amazing sports bets.

Sports betting systems aim to take advantage of betting on a Sport or sports in such a way where statistically a certain outcome can be expected a certain amount of the time. By using a staking plan that allows you to profit providing these stats remain constant in the future you then have a “winning system”. The first problem is that “past performance is not a guarantee, nor should it be used as a predication of, future results” and staking plans demand good bankroll management which is something that cannot be taught through a system and many gamblers, by nature, either ignore or struggle with the concept of financial and risk management. This is a reason to tread carefully.

You also must be careful of the sales pages as they are full of subliminal trigger words. For example, the following hypothetical promotional sentence is filled with marketing buzz words. “Explode your income and watch the cash flow into your account with this killer Sports betting system so fast it your bank account will almost burst”. Have you ever read a sentence like this? Many sports betting systems use exciting phrases like this to entice the buyer. These types of phrases are proven to grab the interest and make the chances of an impulse buy higher.

These buzz words play on the fact the reader would love an account bursting with money, they hope the system is a killer system (killer being an Internet buzz word for great) they desire accounts full of money, we all want these things. The sentence reminds us of what we desire and implies the system can deliver this huge wealth. All this for $47! Did you know that a price ending in seven is proven to be the best price for a product to sell? This is why you see more products online selling for $19.97 than $20 or $19.99. It is only three cents difference, but it is psychologically proven to have more pulling power for those impulse buys. Unfortunately all systems must push for the sale, so all sales pages employ the same language and sales techniques making it even harder for the buyer to separate the good sports betting systems from the bad ones. You must remember that Sports betting system may work, but first and foremost they have a sale to grab.

Before you part with your money, check out the bwin.com user interface and you will see there are plenty of bets to make and odds on offer for different events. There is a massive amount of information online to make up your own mind and test your own systems. You can increase your chances of picking a winner and have fun doing it.

Rather than throw mud against the wall and hope it sticks by risking your money buying a Sports betting system from a slick sales page learn to work things out for yourself! The very best system you have may turn out to be one you develop yourself through diligent study and your own expertise.

By Malcolm Clarke