Posts tagged ‘sportsbook’
Know your customer aka KYC is a rule that has been in place for some time now at many online sportsbooks. In an effort to crack down on fraud, sportsbooks implemented this rule. Essentially, they ask to see two types of identifying documents in order to verify you are who you say you are. These […]
A football game must have a certain number of minutes played in order for a bet on it to count as official. This is a sportsbook rule which rarely comes up. In fact, in my experience in the sports betting industry (23 years) I can only remember it coming into play once. The year was […]
College basketball kind of snuck up on everybody because of the uncertainty of any sporting event during Covid. But tip off day was yesterday and there was plenty of action on the board. There were also a lot of cancellations because of the virus. The season will move forward, much like football has, with the […]
Some teams don’t do so well against the point spread. This goes for bad teams as well as good teams. The spread, as you may know, is set by Vegas and offshore oddsmakers in order to handicap the game so that it attracts equal action on both sides of the bet. But several factors weigh […]
In this article we will show you the lopsided betting action that is currently taking place on NFL Week 11. The report comes from William Hill US, an online and brick & mortar sportsbook which was bought recently for $3.7B. Lopsided betting reports can be useful to see which way the wind is blowing on […]
The oddsbooster is feature offered by several online sportsbooks. They team together plays in a parlay fashion then add boosted odds to the offering. You may get up to an extra 20% payout on the bet vs if you had built the parlay yourself. There are no tricks and no angles. Sportsbooks simply do this […]
Of course, there is a difference between sports betting, casino, and card games. On the other hand, there is some form of similarity between the trios. One of the significant similarities among the three is that they are all forms of gambling. Furthermore, they are also a form of casinos. Players of the three games […]
If you know anything about bookmaking, you understand that running an online sportsbook is much more than just providing a place for your customers to wager on sports. Even though you know this, it’s often difficult to figure out how to make your sportsbook more than just a sportsbook. Before going into detail on how […]
If you haven’t checked out the Odds Booster section at BetOnline you are missing out. They pick several games every week and team them up and actually add a bonus to the odds. For instance, they take Team A + Team B to win straight up and combine them. The normal payout might be something […]
There will come a time in your sports betting career where you may second guess a bet that you placed. Maybe you placed that bet on an impulse, had too many margaritas, whatever the case. Now you want it erased. Can you do anything about it? Anyone who has ever tried to contact a sportsbook […]
