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Lots of individuals literally bust their asses searching for angles on sports picks. They waste time looking at a lot of meaningless stats (shots on goal for, shots on goal against). They crawl through useless trends (the Miami Heat are 6-0 on Sunday afternoons). They invent weird systems (fade any team coming off a loss if their opponent is coming off a win by which they had 4 or less hits or in which their opponent's opponent hit 3 or less home runs sometime last week).
But few if any ever focus their attention on the particular sportsbooks at which they wager. Some betting angles may be picked up simply by browsing your sportsbook's website with a sharp eye and a clear head. By way of example, we found an article on the site of among the most prominent online books worldwide that gave a kind of overview of soccer betting. It was a simple enough article, a sort of "Soccer Betting For Dummies" sort of thing. Harmless.
But one sentence did catch our eye: "Generally it's wiser to pass on the draw bet in soccer unless you've got a very strong angle." At first glance it seems like an innocuous enough statement. Of course, Precision Plays believes it really is generally wiser to pass ANY bet unless you've got a very strong angle (and that angle will be and only value).
What stood out concerning this sentence was that it was advice. All the other sentences within the article were devoted to simply explaining the a number of different ways one could bet a soccer game. But with this sentence, the book was actually giving advice on betting.
As true gambler advocates, we may only pray that no poor sap actually takes betting advice from the man who stands to earn money if he loses. Translating this sentence from Crap-ese, it reads in English: "We do not really want you to bet the draw in soccer."
Remember, Precision Plays does not recommend you go nuts tomorrow and bet all of the draws in soccer, though the simple idea that a sportsbook took enough time in a soccer betting how-to article to discourage a particular sort of bet should give one food for thought.
Another clue to explore is a sportsbook's wager limits. Few ever think of the reasoning behind them. By way of example, at a book we love and use daily, the limit upon an NBA spread bet is $10,000, but on a university basketball spread it's twenty five thousand dollars. Why do you suppose that is? At the same book, the limit on an NFL spread is simply $5,000. Perhaps these differences can be explained through the owners of the book being huge college basketball fans, but we doubt it.
If you check around at a whole lot of different sportsbooks, you'll find that wager limits vary. In the above example, My Source we used the wager limits of a sportsbook we use personally. This book can be considered a "sharp" book, one that caters to more sophisticated players with larger bankrolls. A "square" book is just one geared more toward the recreational bettor. You may spot a square book quickly enough through the large sign-up bonuses and numerous advertisements with skimpily dressed women in them.
