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Articles: Bill Burton on Sports betting

Why Sports Betting is Profitable
by Bill Burton

Sports betting appeals to the smart bettor because it is not a game with a fixed house edge where the casinos are raking off a fixed percentage. Sports betting takes more skill than luck and that makes it similar to live poker. It is a game of opinion rather than luck.

You won't win every time you wager but the skilled handicapper has a huge advantage over the recreational bettor. Before going into more detail you need to understand how sports betting works. We will take a look at football where a point spread is involved. (Basketball also uses a point spread.)

The casino sports books make their money on sports bets by collecting a commission on losing bets. This is called the vigorish or vig for short. The most common odds are 11 to 10. This means that if you want to win $100 you are risking $110. For example, you place a bet on the Giants at the casino sports book and pay $110. If the Giants win you collect $210 (your $100 win + your $110 wager) when you cash your winning ticket. If you lose your bet you lose the $110 wager.

Ideally the sports book would like to have the same amount of money wagered on the two teams playing. If the Giants are playing the Colts and they have one player betting on the Giants and one player betting on the Colts they would pay the winner $100 but collect $110 for the loser. This gives them a $10 profit so they really don't care who wins as long as they have an equal amount bet on each team. To accomplish this they assign a line or spread to make the contest equally attractive for both sides.

The Point Spread

Many people believe that the point spread is the predicted margin of victory by which one team will beat another team. This is not true. The line is the handicapper's prediction of what number will be required to split the wagering evenly on both teams. For this reason the line may change from the opening line to the line at game time. The sports books goal is to have the betting as even as possible.

If the public is swayed by sentiment to bet on a certain team then the odds makers need to adjust the line to get some action on the other team. Otherwise the betting would be heavily lopsided. The general betting public reacts from the opinions of others. This is why you see so many people "jumping on the band wagon" of a winning team.

For the sports books the line is flawed if it does not attract the same amount of action on both sides. However from a smart handicapper's point of view, the line is flawed when it does not compute to his predicted outcome of the game. A weaker team can actually become the favorite if public sentiment is with that team. When this happens the underdog presents a huge overlay for the seasoned handicapper meaning that the odds are in his favor. For example: Team A should be a 3 point underdog to Team B, however the public loves Team A and are betting on them and the line moves to make Team A the one point favorite, then Team B becomes an excellent bet. This is the contrarian principle and why many smart handicappers go against the general betting public.

The Handicapper

A winning handicapper formulates his own opinions about the game and ignores most of the public sentiment. A handicapper takes information for numerous sources, assigns weights and values to it. They will make their own power ranking and predict what the point spread should be without looking at the official line first, and then compare their predictions to the line to look at discrepancies.

The large amount of data available via the internet and other sources means that the handicapper has more information but it means there is more to sift through to find the gems. The use of computer programs can help when searching through the data. At Dominator's Golden Touch Sports Service we have the most powerful, sophisticated programs to look at every game every minute of every day to give us an analysis of who will win and why. These then are passed through Dominator's brilliant sports betting acumen to give us our picks.

Why don't more people win at sports betting? Like any other endeavor it takes time, patience and practice to become successful. A person of average intelligence can become a winning handicapper if he has the desire. Based on the odds of -110 for a straight football or basketball bet a handicapper only needs to be right 52.38 percent of the time to break even. However many sports bettors cannot achieve that percentage of winning over the long run.

Articles: Scoblete Explains Dominator's Sports

UNIQUE! You will get an email from Dominator's Golden Touch Sports Service with your picks on your computer or PDA. Last minute picks will also be sent to you. During football you might even get wagers during the actual games! Our goal is to give you the best customer service anywhere and give you the best possible wagers!

Overview: We believe we have the most powerful, sophisticated and creative winning sports service on earth! Before I tell you about the great Dominator, let me tell you what component #1 is in our attack on sports books in Vegas and on the Internet.

Best-selling gaming author Bill "Ace-Ten" Burton is a computer genius when it comes to sports programming. Over the past decade Bill has been working on a series of supremely powerful, sophisticated, original, and unique sports betting programs. His programs perform at lightning speeds and can analyze staggering amounts of sports information. Every second or every minute of every day, the Burton programming arsenal is collating, organizing, analyzing, and predicting what will or will not happen in all the games coming up. Thousands of games - today's games; tomorrow's games; next week's games; next month's games...and a legion of information concerning those games right up until the games are being played and even as the games are being played.

Once the programming comes up with its recommendations for bets where players have an edge, then we go to component number two - our human nuclear weapon, Dominator, who has a 20-year record of winning sports bets. Dom is analytical, rational, and intuitive with a wealth of experience in over two decades of winning sports betting.

Dominator sifts the information on the top picks of Bill Burton's computer programs - eliminating almost all of them - except for the ones he thinks show the most winning promise. These he divides into two categories: 1. Lock Picks, 2. VIP/Whole Enchilada Picks.

Dominator, Bill Burton and I are not just running Dominator's Golden Touch Sports Service, we make all the bets we recommend each and every day to our players. We win when you win; we lose when you lose. Indeed, we bet the Whole Enchilada. Come join us.

Money-back guarantee! You don't win; we give you your payment back!

Lock picks are the best bets we have to offer, sometimes over a three-game series, and are made with this three-bet series in mind. You might get several of these bets in a week but there are days when you might get none. As you will read, our "Lock" picks have the best winning percentage of all our bets. If we do not think there will be many or any lock picks for a given sport, we will not sell "locks" for that particular season.

You will notice that the recent seasons have had 100 percent win records. We can't guarantee that; but as we said, if you do not have a winning season on our "Lock" bets, we will return your payment to us. We will keep track of the units based on Dominator's unit-betting recommendation to see what the season results are. We lose the "locks," we give your payment back.

34-0 Major League Baseball season/playoffs/World Series 2008

57-0 NBA season/playoffs/championship 2007-08

No "locks" on football 2008-09.

No "locks" on hockey 2008-09.

Bet the way The Triad of Dominator, Bill "Ace-Ten" Burton and Frank Scoblete bet! Once Dominator and Bill make the picks, including any parleys, propositions and even non-baseball picks, we give those picks to you with the VIP/Whole Enchilada service.

With the "VIP/Whole Enchilada" picks you also get the "Lock" picks. These bets are the exact bets The Triad will make too!

UNIQUE! You will get an email from Dominator's Golden Touch Sports Service with your picks on your computer or PDA. Last minute picks will also be sent to you. During football you might even get wagers during the actual games! Our goal is to give you the best customer service anywhere and give you the best possible wagers!

We are not running Dominator's Golden Touch Sports Service for you to just make bets to make bets. So if you are an action junkie, this service is not for you! For example, you might never get a wagering recommendation from Dominator for your favorite team or we will pick against it if that team does come up in our analysis. If this is a "Lock" pick for your team to lose and you can't bet against your favorite team, please, come on, you are betting to win money.

So just split your mind in two. One part is a fan, "Hooray, my team is winning!" Great, it wins; you lose money. It loses, you feel bad but you win money. So for games where your favorite teams are involved, you have to bet intelligently in the "Lock" pick category - which means bet as Dominator recommends.

If your teams are not "Lock" picks, then do what you want in terms of betting; but "Lock" picks are the strongest betting opportunity, so play them straight up as Dom recommends and don't worry about that fan part of yourself.

You will also notice that we don't promise recommendations every day, although most days we do have recommendations in the "VIP/Whole Enchilada" categories. Neither Dominator, Bill Burton nor I want to lose our money so if we aren't betting any games; we sure as heck aren't going to recommend that you bet the games. We value our money and we value your money.

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