Draw no bet

 

 

When you watch most sports, there are only two outcomes: one side wins, and another side loses. In betting, this is also true — when you make a both-teams-to-score bet, for example, you either win the bet or you don’t. However, in some sports, like football, the outcome can sometimes be a draw. This is also true in sports betting, in all bookies from WilliamHill to SBOBet to Pinnacle to Betfair. A draw, or push, occurs when neither side wins in a bet. For example, let’s say the line in a game of American Football is the Green Bay Packers +4 against the San Francisco 49ers −4, and you’ve bet on either side. The 49ers end up winning 21-17. When you’ve subtracted their handicap of 4 from the final score, the outcome is San Francisco 17-17 Green Bay. From the bettor’s perspective, and the casino’s perspective, the game is a draw, or a push. This is not the ideal situation for the casino, as they won’t be able to pocket the vig they charged you (and the rest of the bettors!) to place the bet. In a sense, while they’re paying out absolutely nobody, they’re paying out absolutely everybody. As the bettor, you’ll be returned the full amount of your bet. You’ll lose nothing — except for time — and the bookmaker will not charge you vig. That small amount of vig they charge you on bets that are not pushes or draws will add up to a lot over the long term, for you — and it’ll add up to even more for the casino! This is why it’s essential to shop around over the Internet for the best possible lines on any wager you make. They’ll often be at Pinnacle, though sometimes they’ll be on other sites. Line shopping is an essential skill to becoming a sharp punter, as the marginal gains will be enough to make or break your career as a bettor, just starting out here at betting-strategy.org! In the days when brick-and-mortar casinos dominated the markets, their sportsbooks would have a physical location, and have to deal with physical betting slips. Paying out bets for the entire betting public on a single match was very tedious and wasteful for them, especially when they weren’t even able to pocket the vig, so they started setting handicaps at fractional points. If the final score of the above game was still 21-17, except the line was moved from San Francisco 49ers −4 to 49ers −3.5, then not only would the 49ers’ bettors win the bet, there’d also be no way for the outcome to be a draw. NFL teams cannot score a half a point! This ingenious invention has made its way into the online sports betting world; even though online bookies automatically debit and credit the money to your account, the fractional point spread is still more exciting from a gambler’s perspective, and profitable from the bookie’s perspective. Over the last few years, bookies have also developed the idea of an Asian handicap, which teases the points down into even finer fractions — quarter points — and allows for more of a gray area as to the true outcome, which a sharp bettor can exploit with the tools we have at betting-strategy.org. A related but different concept to the draw or push is the no bet. No bet happens when a match or game is postponed or canceled. It can also happen when the bookie thinks something suspicious is going on — a match fix, for example. This will often happen in live betting. The end result for a draw or push and a no bet is exactly the same: you as the bettor are refunded the full amount of your bet, and the bookie will not get to collect its juice. At betting-strategy.org, we recognize that not losing is as important as winning, if you want to be a successful and long-term-profitable sports bettor, so take that refunded money and bet on the next game, using the skills you’ve acquired with all the resources we offer at this site!