Comparing Sports Betting To Other Gambling Types

There are many types of gambling available to the avid gambler on the internet. Some have a better probability of a winning outcome than others. I reckon that sports betting offers a better chance of winning than most other forms of gambling. Let’s have a look at some of those others before we compare it to sports betting.

  • Lotteries: The probability of winning any given lottery all depends on how many numbers are in the draw and how many winning numbers you need to to win the lottery. Take our Saturday XLotto as an example. You need to get 6 numbers right out of 45 numbers. Your chances of winning that lottery is 1 in 8,145,060! You can work out the chanced of winning any given lottery at WebMath. Yet millions of people buy lottery tickets every day. Why? Because the initial investment is minimal and because you never know if the next ticket you buy will be the winning one.
  • Slot Machines: The odds in winning the jackpot in slot machines, or pokies as they’re known over here, is even worse. According to this article it’s one in 17 million! There’s also this rumour where the payout is just around the corner. So if you can get on one that hasn’t had a win in a while you have more chance in winning. Well, according to this site that is utter bullshit. I don’t know what it is, perhaps its the lights and sounds, but some players get quite addicted to playing the pokies losing all their money on them.  :no-no:
  • Poker (Texas Hold’Em): Not as bad as the lotteries or the pokies but poker doesn’t offer the best odds for the casual punter.

Sports Betting And The Probability Of Winning

Sports Betting Probability

When talking about sports betting I’m referring to those sports where there are only two teams playing. Like soccer, AFL, NFL, hockey, tennis and the like. Even if you know absolutely nothing about any particular sport you have a 50/50 chance of winning. I have found in soccer though that there are times when you think you’ve won but you actually lost. I wrote about it in the post When A Win Is Not A Win. Soccer is weird that way. In soccer you can even increase your chances of winning by taking advantage of the double chance bet.

Usually though in sports betting either one team wins or the other one does. That is unless of course they draw in which case everyone loses except for the bookies. Kind of like flipping a coin and it lands on its edge.

The good thing about sports betting is that knowing the all the ins and outs of the game, the teams and the venues etc give the smart punter even more of a winning chance. So that 50/50 probability can be tipped in the punters favour. Unfortunately in gambling nothing is 100%. That is why there’s always a chance of an upset when sports betting. This is why you need to be a responsible gambler and never bet more than you can lose.

Betting On The AFL Finals

Before I get onto betting on the AFL finals I would like to quickly go over last weeks bet of the week. You’ll notice that both of the bets I placed that week were actually losing bets.I didn’t really think that Fremantle would beat Sydney but I felt they had a slim chance and the odds offered by bet365 was a lot better than placing a bet on Sydney. In hindsight though a small win is better than none at all. There’s a betting lesson to learn. Don’t place you bet on a particular team just because the odds are better. Only do so if you think they have a good chance of winning.

That comes to my second bet. My main bet was on the Richmond vs Port Power game. I honestly thought that Richmond had a good chance of winning. Man, what a farce that game was. It was all Port Power. It was like Richmond wasn’t even there. They certainly did not seem to be trying to win that game at all. Out of all the bets I’ve placed online that one was the only one that I consider to be a total waste. The whole game for me was an utter disappointment. One that not even the online wager could make better. Still, that’s life and you have to expect disappointment every now and again.

Best Online Sports Betting On The AFL Finals

Betting On The AFL FinalsAs you know I have now joined three of what I believe to be the best online sports betting sites.

All three offer great sports betting apps that allow you to place a bet online on your favourite sport with ease. The image above shows the odds available from each of the online sports betting sites. The first screenshot is from Sportingbet, the middle one is bet365 and the last one on the right Sportsbet!

Which one is the best online sports betting site for betting on the AFL Finals? Honestly, you could ask 10 different people and they would all give you different opinions on which is their favourite for betting on the AFL finals. I’ve mentioned before how I think it’s smart to join more than one online sports betting site. The most important reason for doing this is if one of the online sports betting site is down, which happened to me the other week, you’re not left hanging. I simply used one of the other online betting site that I’m a member of.

The other reason for having multiple online betting sites membership is so that you can get the best odds that are on offer.

Which is my favourite one? That changes week to week. I’m all for getting the best odds available so whoever is offering the best odds, that’s my favourite for betting on the AFL finals, or for any sport for that matter.

This week my best online sports betting site for betting on the AFL Finals is Sportsbet because they’re offering the best odds on Sydney to win the flag. I’m getting in early because those odds may be a lot lower next week.

 

Curling Hot Sports Babes

va Have you ever watched the sport of curling? It’s certainly not the most exciting sport. Some would say watching paint dry on the wall is more exciting. I was thinking to myself today that what curling needed was some Curling Hot Sports Babes! That being the case I hopped onto the Internet to see what, if any, curling hot sports babes I could find. Man, was I surprised, and I think you will be too.

Curling Hot Sports Babe Anna Sidorova

Anna Sidorova is a true curling hot sports babe who has been curling ever since she was 13. She would have been a really hot anna-sidorova hot urling sports babefigure skater but an accident at age 13 put an end to that. Luckily for curling fans she chose her current career. You wouldn’t know by looking at her that she was also a model would you? 😉

Check out the concentration as she slides the ‘stone’ down it’s slow icy path. A slow spin of the stone will adjust the direction somewhat and then the sweepers come into play causing its direction to change even more. Boring for some it may be but they say it’s a game that takes a lot of skill to master.

Even though Anna Sidorova is concentrating on where she is sending that stone I reckon most curling fans have eyes only for her. I know I would be.

I’ve put a little Anna Sidorova Curling Hot Sports Babe collage together for you guys.

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Curling Hot Sports Babe Eve Muirhead

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You have to admit too that Eve Muirhead is another sexy curling hot sports babe. Eve is a Scottish Curler Born in 1990 she is a year older than Ana Sidorova. She has had a pretty successful curling career too winning gold several gold medals. Her father and brothers are also curlers so one could say it runs in the family.

Apparently she’s also a pretty good bagpipe player piping at four World Championships! I don’t know about you but I reckon she looks pretty hot in a kilt too!

If that’s not enough she’s also pretty good at golf. I suppose you could say that Eve Muirhead is an all round sexy hot sports babe.

curling hot sports babe eva muirhead

 

Curling Hot Sport Babe Carmen Schaefer

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For our last curling hot sports babe I’m going to take you to a country that is well known for it’s sexy ladies, Switzerland. Carmen Schaefer is a Swiss curler. Born in 1981 she is a little older than the previous hot sports babes but if you ask me the extra years have only improved her hotness!

I’m not just saying that because she’s posing naked in the bottom collage either. She just has this incredible, sultry and very sexy look about her.

Something all these curling hot sport babes have about them is the seriousness they apply to the sport of curling. No-one can deny the look of concentration as they send their stone hurtling down the ice. OK, OK, perhaps the word ‘hurtling’ is stretching the truth a little. 😀

 

 

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Yep, that’s it for this weeks Hot Sports Babes post. Last weeks Hot Sports Babes post went viral getting over 7000 shares. That makes it the most popular post to date! In case you missed it it was the one about Hot Sport Netball Babes. It would be great if this post could beat it. You can help it do that by sharing it with your favourite social media.

For a special treat I managed to find this really cool video called….

Women Curlers Rock

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