Soccer & Tennis strongest world sports, know these like the back of my hand.
Will probably get flamed for this but I'd say at least 60% of my bets are parlays (I know, on the surface it's an eye roller, as it is with most occasions anytime someone mentions 'parlay') but just a run down here, I use bet365 for these sports as the markets available are endless & if you know your shit parlays in these 2 sports ain't so bad & no matter what argument is put forth to counter that I'm looking at my bank roll right now & beg to differ (wow, another arrogant line, last one, had to include it).
Seriously though I "tease" a lot of soccer totals / goal lines / handicaps & the majority of the soccer ones are cushioned with asian lines (so I'll get more pushes than most) but not restricted to - with their being as much as 120 markets available to bet on any given game in the bigger euro leagues it's easy to find legs to add to bump up the payout if you know the sport, hell a game in Latvia will still yield 26 markets available to bet, hundreds of leagues as well, so many markets every day of the week.. put it this way - you don't need to know every player on every team to be able to cap the 2nd division in Japan, stats can be just as useful in soccer as US sports just as long as you look hard enough.
Regarding tennis been following it since well before I started betting, usually just play these as single bets unless I throw in a heavy fave that's a lock or add someone to roll in straights if I feel good enough about them doing so.
I'd try my hand more at US sports but even though I've been watching NBA for years now I still feel like I'm taking a stab in the dark on some plays & usually try to match up whatever little I play with decent cappers in the NBA forum, don't even bother with baseball & hockey as I don't have a clue there.
I'm from Ostrayyya & the sports here I make a killing off whether it be NRL, AFL, Rugby, I find that picking "margins" in these football codes are the easiest & most profitable out of all sports & the regularity of wins I have had exploiting these markets is a testament to that fact, at least from my point of view anyway, I guess it's all to do with how the points are tallied in these sports as opposed to others & at the risk of sounding arrogant again my local would absolutely hate me.
The best thing about all this up until a couple months ago (for Australia) bet365 has amazing live betting, truly doubt that any other book comes close in terms of available sports & markets (live at least), definitely unrivalled in my main ones in soccer & tennis, obviously with US sports you can bet more markets at books tailored more towards nba/nhl/mlb etc but that doesn't change the fact you'll still find every single game available to bet live at bet365, great software too.
What I'm getting at is, where the wheels slightly came off a bit for me is at the start of Feb bet365 opened an office in Australia & therefore OZ's now have to abide by the ''phone to live bet' rule here rather than live betting on the net & this killed me because when playing these parlays - if a leg looked shaky 10 minutes into a soccer match with someone scoring & my selection/leg was under 2.5 goals for the match but I knew for sure the under 2.5 was a lock regardless of the early goal - I could get a great line pretty much straight away and I'd sprinkle some more on the updated line (say under 3.5 in this instance) straight away & add anything that hadn't started yet or was also in progress that would usually be cushioned by an asian line & with that insurance me feeling like the others being almost certainties I'd play it again with that leg & sometimes I'd even play it again with more than 1 updated leg involved & you'd be surprised how often both parlays would hit. It's just the nature of soccer & the way it's played, just because someone scores an early goal doesn't mean it's going to end 4-4, quite often you'll find if it's the away team scoring the score may remain the same & end at 0-1 as they're happy with the goal & fine with just defending for the rest of the game & sit on their 1 goal advantage. Of course I'm explaining something that can be done in any sport in regards to getting a better live line but soccer is the easiest to exploit this way because of the scoring system & just the way the live lines update throughout different events in the game.
Until Feb this was possible & I could get it done in a minute with a few clicks but with this calling up bs now I have to deal with a pommy operator with hard hearing that asks me to spell out a 5 syllable soccer team from Czech Republic & you can imagine with the amount of clueless operators you get these days it's unbelievably frustrating trying to get all this across & get the bet/parlay placed quickly before a market gets suspended momentarily for whatever reason & with anywhere between 2-8 legs it get's more annoying the longer the parlays are & subsequently often has me giving up & just letting the parlay ride even if there's a chance that the offending leg may the play sole spoiler.
To top it off us oz's aren't even able to add the live selection if it's in-play & therefore I'd have to jot everything down myself & do my own calculations of payouts & once again this wastes precious time all the while the market(s) I want may not be available anymore.
Sure this post will come off like I think I know it all but that's far from the truth, I've just found success with my method in the right sports & it's paying off for me in a way I couldn't have imagined a couple of years ago.
Alright I've spoken enough just thought I'd share my thoughts on how getting an edge in soccer is much easier with my method of playing with asian lines & just a hot tip to Americans that throw the remote at the screen when for a 7 footer in the NBA with an IQ of sub 50 fouls down 12 with 5 seconds remaining to bust your under half a point just remember there are other sports out there that are much easier to get an edge in because as most know US sports generally have the sharpest lines in the world.
Of course it's frequented much less but you don't see guys in the soccer forum going all in with rent money on a play because they've got 0-10 & are desperate to get back to even money.
As expected my previous post has garnered a negative response which is fair I guess. Judging by your name I'm gonna take a stab in the dark & say you're probably pushing twice my age, been doing this for 10x as long & you see me as some young up start that's on a run & thinks he has the wonderful world of online betting all figured out.
Despite how I may have come across here - No, no I don't. Quite the opposite actually - if you'll go through this post & the last it's quite obvious I don't know much at all & haven't claimed to - maybe just as less as your average degen - but I've found an edge that works for me which clearly is as easy as knowing a particular sport or 2 & having the right book to exploit it.
I'm sure you spend more hours looking at line movement than sleeping, but hey - to each their own bud, that's your tried & tested way & I've got my own, obviously you can look down on me with a condescending smiley but that doesn't change the fact that I've been very successful my way & if you get a rush out of beating the closing line in NHL then more power to you.
You might be able to do this.
But I like to look at it not as slapping myself like I'm making a mistake but rather more like this.
(to the bank).
I'm just saying what's been working for me & has been for a minute & obviously it can't go on forever as I'll get limited I'm just enjoying it while it lasts.
You're looking at me as naive & that's fine I probably can't compete with your vast knowledge of sports betting 101 but I'm fairly certain there's one thing I can compete with & that would be your bank roll.
& if there was ever a lock it's - What I've been saying doesn't hold true to your beliefs & that's fine I put myself out there for criticisms with the first post here, just don't expect me to not somewhat defend myself.
I'm sure I'm still coming across as an E-bragging douche which was never the intention I was just simply adding weight to the topic & I've just rambled on but I just felt I had to justify my previous post & I hope after this fuk'n essay I've come a little way in doing so.
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Originally Posted by showtiime
Been doing fine for about 6 months as only source of income. Quit very easy big $$ side job for a minute as have been making bank & then some since the turn of the year.
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My sincerest apologies. 
