Sports betting is an interesting form of entertainment, which can also become a way to get extra money. However, effective betting is not that simple, and many issues are unclear for novice players.
That is why we have prepared here a mini guide in which we explain step by step how to bet on sports, what characterizes legal bookmakers, how to choose the best sports betting and many other issues that a good player should know about.
Sports betting – what is it?
Probably everyone in their life made bets with their friends: who will last longer under water, who will reach the finish line first, or whether FC Barcelona or Real Madrid will win the match.
Bookmaker bets are basically the same, but in this case we bet with a bookmaker, a specialist company which determines which sports (and other) events are worth taking bets on and what odds are offered (which is related to the bookmaker’s estimates determining the probability of a given event outcome).
Of course, that’s not all, the bookmakers’ offers are much more complicated – the multitude of types of bookmakers, possible sports disciplines (not only traditional sports bets, but also virtual sports betting or esports bets), types and subtypes of bets (e.g. on the winner, the number of goals, the number of cards or the exact result of the match).
Sports betting can be accepted in pre-match mode and live, in stationary and online, and the latter is accompanied by a variety of betting tools and various types of bookmaker promotions.
How to find out about it all and where to start playing sports betting? How to play online, how to use online bookmakers and what do you need to know before placing your first sports bets? We explain everything step by step in the article below.
Legal bookmakers – what can we find on the website?
Online sports betting has many advantages, including the unlimited availability at any time and almost anywhere (as long as we have access to the Internet there) and the associated great comfort of the game .
In addition, online sports betting offers you the opportunity to use many tools and options that make betting easier and make the game more attractive – and many of them are not available when placing bets in traditional bookmakers’ outlets. So what exactly can we find on online betting sites?
Much depends on the betting provider in question, however, the website always has a complete and up-to-date offer of pre-match and live betting, often including virtual sports betting (i.e. virtual sports) and electronic sports betting.
An indispensable section is also the e-coupon field , in which, after selecting a given event (or events) and type, our choice will be displayed as a bet to place. Specify the stake you want to bet here, and we’ll see what the possible win is for such a bet. After validating the e-coupon, the bet is placed.
On the website offering online sports betting, we can also check the results of matches for which bets were accepted and their statisticsHowever, in the case of live bets, i.e. those on which sports bets are placed during the duration of the match, this data is updated on a regular basis.
When it comes to live betting, a very useful functionality is the match-tracker , i.e. graphic visualizations of the course of matches, and some legal bookmakers offer free live broadcasts of matches .
Online bookmakers often post on their website various types of advanced betting search engines (e.g. by team, player or date of the match), odds search engines or “quick coupons” – i.e. random events selected in accordance with the parameters provided by the player, which can be immediately place a bet.
In addition, legal bookmakers allocate separate tabs in order to inform users about all current promotions, issues related to payments, legal aspects (including game rules) and many others (e.g. regarding the mobile application, on-site premises or interesting “Cash-out” functions).
To facilitate the use of such extensive websites containing sports betting, there are always tabs for subpages such as “Help” , where the most important issues related to the game on a given website are explained – sometimes we can even find entire guides on how to play sports betting.
Each bookmaker also lists the available methods of contacting the customer service department. Of course, the bookmaker service must also have a button directing to the registration form and a special button login window .
