How to bet on baseball at a Sportsbook with baseball picks:.

It is easy to sign up for a handicapping service and branch out $50-$5000 a month for their picks, and it is easy to accuse that same handicapper after if those picks alter out to be losers. The Lazy, easy and cozy way is to accuse someone else.

Here is a little secret: people who make money gambling on a sportsbook don’t use handicapping services. They elect their picks themselves at the sportsbook. And if you mean to spend five minutes looking at the morning newspaper to do that - this article is not for you. There is no such thing as free meal amigo and winning pointers spend a good quantity of time blending and calculating whatever variables they take into account to make their picks at a sportsbook. No effort - no bread.

Most people don't comprehend baseball wagering at sportsbooks and many don't get implicated as they don't have time to analyze teams, data, pitchers and all the information needed to be prosperous in baseball wagering. But hold on, the task is not as scary as it seems. Most sportsbooks are happy to just break even through baseball season. I am amazed that more people are gambling on football rather than baseball - it is so much difficult to win.

Why would an online wagering sportsbook site give you such estimable inside information you ask? It is in our concern that you forfeit capital you would think... but not so. You see, if you turn a better educated player, you will bet longer and breed us more juice. For us, the more, and the more you play at a sportsbook the better - we take commission on every bet.

Now down to business. Gambling on baseball at a sportsbook is one of the easiest ways to make cash betting as it's one of the easiest sports to handicap - there is no point spread to beat at a sportsbook- your team wins, your bet wins.

I will exclude the basics of baseball here assuming that you know the sport, terms and statistics implicated.

In football and basketball, team vs. team handicapping is the key - but with baseball you have double the handicapping chance since both team and pitching match-ups can give a winning edge.

Rule #1
Never play heavy favorites. Never wager on a team that is over -150. Simple example at the grammar school arithmetic level would help here: player needs to win 40% of +150 dogs to break even vs. 60% of -150 favorites. If you anticipate that team has a 65% chance of winning and you wager it at -250 – forget about it. Wins and losses are so extraneous when wagering on MLB.

You got to love big dogs in baseball.

Consider bullpen depth of the team if it's line is close to -150. If a bullpen has over a 3.50 ERA, and the closer is struggling or giving up late runs, be extra careful.

Rule #2

Never bet action. Listed pitchers in your baseball picks only.

Rule #3
Never bet the run line, it is essentially a point spread for baseball.

Rule #4
Never wager a favorite when that team is going for a series sweep.

Rule #5
Starting pitcher is not worth as much as you might think.

Rule #6
Home dogs are stronger.

This Day in Sports

1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 car race was won by Ray Harroun.
1937 - Carl Hubbell won his 24th consecutive game, a streak that had begun the previous season.
1938 - A Yankee record crowd of 81,841 attend a doubleheader versus Boston.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. began consecutive games streak by starting at third base against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1985 - The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals 8-5 to win their second championship in as many years. Wayne Gretzky scored one goal and set up three more and in the process set one year playoff records for assists (30) and points (47). Jari Kurri tied Reggie Leach's record of 19 playoff goals.
2001 - San Francisco Giants outfielder, Barry Bonds hit two home runs to move into 11th place on the major league career list with 522. - Brett Miller won seven consecutive races at Northfield Park in Ohio.
2003 - The Washington Wizards fired head coach Doug Collins.
2004 - Pole winner Buddy Rice captured the 88th Indianapolis 500. The victory was Rice's first Indy 500 victory and in fact his first-ever in the series. He was the 18th driver to win his first race at Indy.
2005 - Johns Hopkins won its first NCAA Men's Lacrosse title since 1987 with a 9-8 victory over Duke in the Division I Championship.

Sports Betting - Costly Gas? Roll With It.

Some Gamble on Future Prices to Recoup Expenses

By Don Oldenburg

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, April 30, 2006; Page F05

Will gasoline prices continue to go up?

You can bet on it.

No, really, I mean it. If you're the gambling type, you can now bet on those skyrocketing pump prices that once again have consumers over a barrel. An online gambling site has posted odds on the short-term future of the price per gallon.

"Will gas prices hit $4 by June 15th? The odds are 3 to 1 they will. You wager $100 and win $300," says Freddy Harris, the general manager and top oddsmaker at YouWager.com, a First Fidelity sportsbook based in Costa Rica. "If you want a longer shot, you can bet gas prices will get to $5. If you're right, we will pay you 8 to 1. If not, we will cheerfully take your $100."

With interest rates and gasoline prices steadily rising and consumer confidence falling, some folks may be hoping to hedge the high cost of gasoline by wagering on it. Since the gas-price odds appeared on YouWager.com's board two weeks ago, about 60 people have put money on the $5-a-gallon bet, says Harris, and about 150 have bet that gas will break $4 a gallon.

"It's a fun thing. This is something you could debate at the barbershop. Put your money where your mouth is . . . if you have a strong opinion," says Harris.

But while the days of cheap gas seem to be over, at least you can still place a cheap bet. The minimum is $25, and the maximum is $100. But gas wagering goes off the board May 10, so bettors risk 34 days of market manipulation and things happening that can affect gas prices. And they'll have to wait until June 15 to find out whether they're winners.

Bettors may be the only ones other than the oil companies finding some comfort in the upward trend. The Energy Department figured the average retail price of gasoline nationwide this week at $2.914 a gallon -- but as consumers in the Washington area, Los Angeles and New York know, it wasn't hard to find gas topping $3. Gasbuddy.com, a volunteer-fueled Web site that scouts best pump prices by locality, had regular gas this week nationwide averaging $2.909, compared with $2.477 a month ago and $2.222 a year ago. "Just so everyone knows it is fair, we go by AAA's FuelGaugeReport.com," says Harris, referring to auto club AAA's online tracking of the national averages for regular, mid-level and premium gas prices. YouWager.com will combine those and divide by three for the gas price on June 15.

Typically, gamblers would log on at YouWager.com to put money on the Nationals-Cardinals ballgame today or the NBA playoffs instead of gas prices. A sportsbook, it makes odds and takes bets on just about every sport out there.

But oddsmakers like to dabble in a few "special," non-sporting events. YouWager.com on Tuesday closed its betting line on who will win "American Idol" (it's Chris Daughtry pays 1.25 to 1, Katharine McPhee pays 2.2 to 1 and Taylor Hicks pays 3 to 1). But you can still bet on Paula Abdul checking into rehab before the end of "American Idol" (5 to 1 she will), on the United States launching a preemptive attack on Iran before July 10 (10 to 1 it will), on the outcome of former Enron exec Kenneth L. Lay's trial (1 to 6 he's guilty), on Tom Cruise marrying Katie Holmes now that the baby's born (3 to 1 he won't), and on Democrats taking control of the U.S. Senate in this year's elections (2 to 1 they will).

Harris says compared with the $300,000 to $500,000 in wagers YouWager.com gets on a Monday NFL game, it sees "very little" action on the oddball lines. But customers who register, deposit a minimum amount and activate their account can bet on whatever's on the board. "Then you are literally off to the races," he says.

But a warning to novice gamblers who think they can feed their sport-utility vehicles by wagering on gas prices: Betting on online sportsbooks can itself be a gamble. Except in Nevada, accepting sports bets is illegal in the United States -- which is why YouWager.com is located in Costa Rica and some 2,500 other online sportsbooks and casinos are located beyond the three-mile U.S. offshore limit.

Football betting - Ex-heavyweight champ dies at 71. I Part

May 2, 2006, 15:06

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - Floyd Patterson, an undersized football betting champion who avenged an embarrassing loss to Ingemar Johansson by beating him a year later to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died recently. He was 71.

Patterson died at his home in New Paltz, N.Y. He had Alzheimer's disease for about eight years and prostate cancer, nephew Sherman Patterson said.

Patterson's football betting career was marked by historic highs and humiliating lows. He won the title twice, but took a beating from Muhammad Ali in a title fight and was knocked out twice in the first round by Sonny Liston.

Patterson, who weighed only 189 pounds for the first football betting fight, was a tenacious boxer who often fought bigger football betting opponents - and almost as often found himself on the football betting canvas. He was down a total of 19 times in his career, getting up 17 of them.

"They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most, but I also got up the most," Patterson once said.

Following the first football betting knockout to Liston, Patterson was so embarrassed he wore a disguise. The two fought a rematch only 10 months later in Las Vegas, in 1963, and Patterson fared even worse.

Liston dropped him to the canvas three times before the fight was halted at 2:09 of the first round.

Patterson emerged from a football betting troubled childhood in Brooklyn to win the Olympic middleweight championship in 1952.

In 1956, the undersized heavyweight became, at age 21, the youngest man to win the title with a fifth-round knockout of Archie Moore.

But three years later, Patterson was knocked down seven football betting times in the third round in losing the title to Johansson at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

Patterson returned with a vengeance at the same site in 1960, knocking out Johansson with a tremendous left hook to retake the title.

Despite his accomplishment, he was so humiliated when he lost the title football betting on a first-round knockout to Sonny Liston in 1962 that he left Comiskey Park in Chicago wearing dark glasses and a fake beard. Patterson again was knocked out in the first round by Liston in 1963.

Patterson got two more shots at winning the title a third football betting time. Battered and taunted for most of the fight by Muhammad Ali, Patterson was stopped in the 12th round in 1965. He lost a disputed 15-round decision to WBA champion Jimmy Ellis in 1968.

Overall, Patterson finished 55-8-1 with 40 knockouts. He was knocked out five times and knocked down a total of at least 15 times. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.

Sports Betting - Ed McMahon Vodka? You Are Correct Sir!

By Pop Candy at USATODAY.comMay 2, 2006, 17:32
Introducing Ed McMahon, The new Sports Betting Russian Vodka
There he is on the sports betting bottle, arms folded, looking for all the sports betting world like a Star Search logo. He seems to be saying, "Go ahead and get drunk on something better. I dare ya."
Indeed, the image of Ed McMahon is emblazoned on a Russian vodka container. We obviously aren't talking about just any ordinary Russkie firewater but McMahon Perfect sports betting Russian Vodka. It's the only vodka to be personally endorsed by the Man Who Launched a Thousand Laughs, sitting next to Johnny Carson for all of those years on "The Tonight Show." It's the only sports betting spirit with a Publisher's Clearinghouse kick. Now, you can get hammered with Ed without even being near him!
On the mcmahonvodka.com sports betting website, the message is clear: "Some things in life you can't control. The vodka you drink isn't one of those things." Not the clearest English, maybe, but you get the picture. McMahon Perfect is distilled "using a special four-time filtration process that allows for strict quality control" culled from "over 200 years of experience" (and you thought Ed wasn't even 100 yet). Best of all, once the cap is removed the bottle roars heartily at everything you say.
Alas, it's only available from a few distributors at present. Not that Ed asked, but we have a few suggestions for McMahon Perfect sports betting slogans:
"Johnny would drink it if he could."
"You may already have had too much to drink!"
"Remember, never drink and laugh."
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Vodky!"
Apparently, celebrity endorsed alcohol is very much in sports betting style these days. Donald Trump also has his own brand of vodka on the market. Here are some other adult beverages with celebrity tie-ins:
Sammy Hagar is the face of Cabo Wabo tequila.
Francis Ford Coppola's popular wines feature one named for his daugher, Sofia.
Willie Nelson promotes Old Whiskey River bourbon.
Olivia Newton-John's Koala Blue wines offer consumers a "taste of Australia."
Sam Neill owns a New Zealand winery that produces the Two Paddocks brand.