Betting tips & predictions

Bookies and Inplay Betting Tips

21st November 2019

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Inplay betting is everywhere these days, you’d be hard pressed to watch a televised football match without some D-list actor turning up on your screen hawking some ‘value’ odds. We’ll let you in on a wee secret here; if you hear a bookie or someone who works for a bookie telling you that a price is ‘value’ they’re lying.

Inplay Betting Tips

You can, of course, find value in the betting markets, but if a bookie is telling you something is value, once you factor in their overround and then look at their opening odds you’ll soon see they’re fibbing. Let’s not see the bookies as the enemy here though, they’re simply selling a service, you’re up against the market.

Think of it like a car race, you need to beat the other racers, the bookie just charges to use the race track. Some bookies charge less than others though and they’re the ones you should be using. You need to have a critical eye when it comes to bookie advertising, many of them have incredibly good PR and marketing professionals working for them so be wary, continue your own search for value and always, always use the bookies with the lowest overrounds.

Anyway, let’s get back to inplay betting. Let’s start with a factor not many will write about concerning inplay betting; temptation. Before the internet came along you had to go to a bookie’s shop, place your bet and hopefully you’d win, with inplay betting the temptation is there to double up on bets, even triple up on them and to chase losses as well. You should never, ever chase losses. If you’re on a losing run, stop and reexamine where your bets are going wrong, reevaluate why you made certain wagers and see if your methodology is going wrong somewhere and keep looking for value and keep tinkering with your strategies to ensure you’re getting the best bank for your buck.

Particularly on weekends it can be tempting to place loads of inplay bets, but really you need to keep a cool head and only bet with something you’re really confident of winning. Think of it this way; instead of placing five or 10 bets on a Saturday where you’re not really giving those 10 matches the concentration they deserve, wouldn’t it be better to just pick the one that stands out the most? There are 100s of football matches daily now, you don’t need to be in a rush, take your time and learn the markets and learn as much about the matches prior to kick off as you can. The more you know the further you’ll go.

Betting on Inplay Markets

Another thing to pay attention to is the ‘live stats’ that bookies provide you with. What your bookie calls a ‘dangerous attack’ might really just be a center back hoofing a long ball down the pitch as a clearance. There’s one large bookie in particular who is famous for lying about it’s Shot on Target (SOT) data. For example, if the attacking team takes a corner and the goalkeeper jumps and takes the ball out of the air this is deemed by them to be a shot on target. Why? Well, they know that if they can inflate the SOT numbers they’ll get more people betting. Watch matches, it’s as simple as that, if you’re betting inplay you need to be watching what you’re betting on.

When it comes to betting it’s better to err on the side of caution and to be sceptical of advertising and of the data a bookie gives you, like any business they want you to part with your money, but as a consumer you need to ensure you’re getting the best value for your money.

In an upcoming article we’ll write about where to look for value in the inplay betting markets.

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