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Lots of people literally bust their asses looking for angles on sports picks. They waste time looking at a great deal 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 actual 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. For example, we found an article on the web page of one of the most prominent best online football gambling site books in the world that gave a sort 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 is wiser to pass on the draw bet in soccer unless you've got an extremely strong angle." At first glance it appears like an innocuous enough statement. Of course, Precision Plays believes it is generally wiser to pass ANY bet unless you have a very strong angle (and that angle is definitely and only value).
What stood out about this sentence was that it was advice. All of the other sentences within the article were dedicated to simply explaining the numerous ways one could bet a soccer game. But with this sentence, the book was actually giving advice on betting.
As true gambler advocates, we can only pray that no poor sap actually takes betting advice from the guy who stands to earn money if he loses. Translating this sentence from Crap-ese, it reads in English: "We don't really want you to bet the draw in soccer."
Keep in mind, Precision Plays doesn't recommend you go nuts tomorrow and bet all the draws in soccer, although the simple proven fact that a sportsbook took enough time in a soccer betting how-to article to discourage a specific 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. For instance, at a book we love and use daily, the limit upon an NBA spread bet is $10,000, but on a college basketball spread it's $25,000. Why do you suppose that's? At the same book, the limit on an NFL spread is just $5,000. Perhaps these differences can be explained by the owners of the book being huge college basketball fans, but we doubt it.
If you look around at a great deal of distinct sportsbooks, you'll find that wager limits vary. Within the above example, we used the wager limits of a sportsbook we use personally. This book may 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 ads with skimpily dressed women in them.
