Friday, January 1, 2010

About Money Management In Sports Betting

One of the keys of the sports betting world that many people seem to miss is that money management is just as important as learning to pick the games themselves. Without successful money management, all of the solid handicapping in the world won't mean a hill of beans. With that in mind, what is the proper way to manage how much money you place on each bet? The simplest way is to stick to a fixed bet amount, which will give you a chance to have a profit at the end of the month.

One of the dirtiest little secrets of the sports handicapping industry is one that the sites try to keep hidden as much as they possibly can. They want, more than anything else, for people to be in the dark about what they do. For 9 out of every 10 sites, money is made by using affiliate advertising. How this works is fairly simple, and it should raise major red flags in your head. They allow bookies to advertise their online book at the tipping website, hopefully enticing you to sign up with that sports book. When you do sign up, the bookie will give a certain percentage of your losses back to the tipping site.

When we give out our picks, we expect them to hit at a rate of at least 66%. That is a number that we have successfully passed each and every year, so there is a reasonable expectation that our picks will do that well. Given the odds of the picks that we give out, if you are to make bets of the same amount each time, you will come out with a profit at the end of the month. Since we are confident that we will hit 2 out of every 3 picks, you should go with this type of money management system in order to ensure the most profitability. The problem comes when people start varying their bet amounts. When that happens, the one miss out of three can be more devastating than it should be.

Creating a Sports Theater in Your Home

If you're like me, I can't seem to do anything just one thing at a time. I have to be able to do multiple things all the time and that includes watching sports events. Watching one sports event at a time just doesn't work for me, I want to watch multiple sports events and Satellite Sports TV with the right TV makes it easy.

Using either a split screen picture, picture-in-picture (PIP), or multiple televisions you can watch several sports events at the same time. In the world of sports, this is really great because you can watch different sports events at the same time and then be able to switch between the sports events to watch the one with the action at the moment.

Today watching several sports events at the same time is a very simple process. To setup your own sports theater, you need a satellite TV receiver with multiple sports channels and a TV setup to display multiple sports channels. Satellite TV Sports allow you to have multiple sports programs on the same TV or separate TV's at the same time.

If you want more than two sports programs at once, Sports Satellite TV also has packages where you can add additional TV's, up to four per dish, onto one satellite system. This means you can be watching four different sports programs at once. Being able to watch four sports events continuously can really make you a sports authority. Being a sports authority means you can talk sports with anybody and having seen the sports event you will know what is actually happening.

Without a huge amount of money, you can watch up to four sports programs at the same time and do it within a reasonable budget. There are several different ways you can watch multiple sports programs.

One is using several TV's and the correct satellite TV receiver to watch two to four sports channels at the same time. Satellite TV providers have receivers that will do either two TV's or split screen of two channels on the same TV. Using this kind of satellite receiver, you can use a big screen TV to do side-by-side split screen or use multiple smaller TV's to watch different receiver channels at the same time.

So, if you really want to be "The Sports Authority" and get all the sports events that you can handle, then going with satellite and multiple TV images is really the way to go. The two main things to look at are the TV's and satellite TV receiver being used. Dish network provides several options including a high-definition DVR system that allows you to do split-screen automatically from the unit itself. This means using your existing TV, you can watch different sports events right on the screen at the same time.

If you want to have more sports, you can use separate receivers and multiple TV's to get up to four sports events from one satellite dish. TV's like the Mitsubishi 65 inch big-screen allow you to have split screen right on the television in a native mode. This means you can have multiple satellite inputs viewed on two screens and switch between sports events on the two sides. By setting up favorites on your satellite remote, you can then quickly flip between different sports events on each one of the split-screen sides.

To get even more events you can either add additional TV's or get a different kind of TV that handles what is known as picture-in-picture. This will allow you to have multiple sports events on the screen at the same time. These TV's tend to cost a bit more money and some models are a little problematic. So be careful with which TV's you select for this particular methodology, but it can be great for watching multiple sports events.

The lesser expensive method is to simply pick up some low-end TV's to use as side monitors and have your main television showing the sports program you want to watch at the moment. Use the side TV's to monitor other sports programs on different receivers and switch to the sports event with action on the main TV when you see it happening on one of the monitors.

Using satellite TV receivers and a few TV's, you can have a home Sports Theater that will make you "The Sports Authority". So put your Sports Theater together now and start having those sports parties with all your friends.