| nt source has grown exponentially over the past year, | | | | receiving a fair line. They’ll just keep raising it on |
| and that expansion has incorporated a lot of | | | | the admired teams (like the Los Angeles Lakers in |
| international clients. Some of these people are a little | | | | basketball, or the New Orleans Saints in football) and |
| unsure how to carry on with signing up with an | | | | that makes it even harder for you to win. If you have |
| offshore sportsbook and I’ve been getting a | | | | to continue laying an extra 1 or 1.5 points on games, |
| variety of questions dealing with this issue. I figured it | | | | ultimately that will catch up to you. |
| was a good time to make available a short guide for | | | | So if you have many betting accounts, you have the |
| folks who find themselves in the same predicament. | | | | flexibility to line shop. If you desire to bet on the |
| First of all, make certain you live in a jurisdiction where | | | | underdog, then the type of sportsbook described |
| it’s legal go bet with an offshore group. For | | | | above definitely works in your favor. If they’re |
| most Europeans this isn’t an concern, but they | | | | going to continue jacking the line on the favorite, this is |
| may feel more comfortable with their local betting | | | | a great place for underdog betting. Now let’s |
| shop or maybe Betfair. The difficulty with that is Betfair | | | | say you have set up an account at another offshore |
| or the local U.K.-style book might not offer the odds on | | | | outfit. This place takes a max bet of someplace |
| the games you need to get down on. So that’s | | | | between $10,000 and $50,000. That means they are |
| the first issue to get taken care of: make certain the | | | | taking sharp action and they can not afford to move |
| sportsbook takes odds on all American sports, not just | | | | their lines off of what the true number is. |
| pro football. You need MLB, college basketball, the | | | | Even if they are getting irregular action (and you can |
| works. | | | | forget about shops trying to balance action 50/50, |
| Next, you ought to, and I can’t emphasize this | | | | that’s a myth. I’m not definite if that ever |
| enough: you must have several outs. Why? Well there | | | | was likely but it sure as heck isn’t now) they |
| are a couple reasons for this. The first reason is so | | | | can’t drift off the real line or else they end up |
| you can line shop. Possibly you have an account at a | | | | taking a $50,000 bet on the other side in which they |
| sportsbook that takes a highest bet of $5,000 or | | | | were giving out a favorable number. That wipes out |
| under. That indicates to me they are a | | | | most of the likely profit on a game. But this is a great |
| ‘square’ book. This means they only want | | | | place for you to do your favorites betting. Even if they |
| square action. For those unfamiliar with the term, a | | | | take a big max bet, 99% of the shops still will have a |
| square is a favorites bettor. They bet on the well | | | | very low minimum bet, usually as low as $1. |
| known teams because they don’t stick to the | | | | Line shopping is one of the key reasons to have |
| sport that closely. If you’re betting at a square | | | | multiple outs, but there’s another factor involved. |
| shop, there’s a chance you aren’t | | | | In my judgment it’s even more important. |