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Odds Calculator

March 15, 2024 | Categories: guide to sportsbetting

A betting odds calculator and converter multiplies the stake by the odds to determine the potential profit on your sports betting wagers. You usually just enter your stakes and odds, and the tools will tell you how much profit you should expect to receive using American, fractional or decimal odds. Here are some popular online calculators: <ul><li><a href="https://www.covers.com/tools/odds-c...

Legal States for Sports Betting

March 15, 2024 | Categories: guide to sportsbetting NBA odds

Hey there, sports betting is picking up quite the pack across America! Florida and Maine recently jumped on the bandwagon, landing the golden ticket for folks to start checking out NBA odds and prop betting. This stems from a landmark moment in 2018 when the Supreme Court gave a thumbs down to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). Now it's like a choose-your-own-adventure spo...

LowVig - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.lowvig.ag/">lowvig.ag</a> LowVig is a sister site of Betonline. There are some very important differences, however, the first being that they do not offer bonuses and the second that they offer a reduced margin on the odds of many of their sports/leagues/matches. They cater more to the professional gambler who is chasing superior odds, very much in the same vein as...

MyBookie - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.mybookie.ag/">mybookie.ag</a> This is on the MyBookie website: "MyBookie’s top priorities have always been the easiest deposits, the fastest payouts, and the absolute best customer service. Since launching, MyBookie has delivered on its promise of excellent service as well as easy, fast deposits and payouts. That’s not to mention providing an always-expanding se...

SuperBook - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.superbook.com/">superbook.com</a> SuperBook started out as a bookmaker in Las Vegas, NV. They now offer online sports betting. Their motto is "Good teams win, great teams cover". FYI this is <a href="https://betterthanguessing.substack.com/p/can-a-team-consistently-beat-the", target="_blank">not mathematically true.</a> SuperBook offers a variety of sports to...

PointsBet (US) - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://pointsbet.com/">pointsbet.com</a> PointsBet (US) is an Australian bookmaker. PointsBet (US) agreed to be purchased by Fanatics for <a href="https://www.fanaticsinc.com/press-releases/fanatics-betting-and-gaming-closes-first-wave-of-states-inits-acquisition-of-the-us-businesses-of-pointsbet" target="_blank">$225 million</a> in 2023. At some point soon after the ac...

Unibet - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://unibet.com/">unibet.com</a> Unibet is a European sportsbook with over 1,500 employees and offices in Malta, London, New York, and Gibraltar. They are headquartered in Malta. Unibet is part of the Kindred Group, one of the largest online gambling companies in the world. Unibet seems to have started US operations in 2019....

WynnBet - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.wynnbet.com/">wynnbet.com</a> Wynn Interactive is the online gaming division of Wynn Resorts, Ltd. (Nasdaq: WYNN). WynnBet recently announced they would cease operations in Massachusetts - as of this publication they still take bets there. In August of 2023, Wynn said it thought there were “higher and better uses of capital deployment” than “the continued requir...

BetRivers - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://betrivers.com/">betrivers.com</a> BetRivers Sportsbook is a fairly new US sportsbook. Their parent company, Rush Street Interactive, launched in 2012. BetRivers Sportsbook is offered by the Rivers Casino. Rush Street operates five physical casinos under the Rivers name in downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Portsmouth, the Capital Region of New York, and in the Ch...

BetOnline - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.betonline.ag/">betonline.ag</a> BetOnline is a privately held online gambling company offering sports betting, online casinos, poker and wagering on horse racing. The company's CEO is Eddie Robbins III.[1] In 2006, according to Casino City Press, BetOnline.com was among the top 60 online sportsbook, racebook, and betting exchanges, by overall traffic received. The ...

BetUS - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.betus.com.pa/">betus.com.pa</a> BetUS is a privately held online gambling company offering sports betting, esports betting, casino games, and horse racing. BetUS Sportsbook & Casino is run by Milvus Ltd and is licensed in Mwali, Comoros Union. It was founded in 1994. Despite the name, this is not a US sportsbook but is open fro US-based players. You can bet w...

Bovada - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.bovada.lv">bovada.lv</a> Bovada Casino and Sportsbook is a Costa Rica-based online poker, sports betting and casino website launched in 2011. Their online sportsbook lets you gamble online on most US sports leagues and markets. Bovada lets you place bets with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. They also accept credit cards and bank trans...

Caesars - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.caesars.com/sportsbook-and-casino">caesars.com</a> Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) is the largest casino-entertainment company in the US and one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Caesars acquired William Hill in 2020. The company owns and operates casinos, hotels, and golf courses under several brands, including Caesars...

BetMGM - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://betmgm.com/en/sports">betmgm.com</a> BetMGM is a partnership between MGM Resorts International and Entain Holdings. It is a US sports betting company. BetMGM is the exclusive sports betting division of MGM, both online and in MGM casinos nationwide. BetMGM is also the headline brand for online casino gaming along side sister brands Borgata Online (New Jersey), Part...

DraftKings - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.draftkings.com/">draftkings.com</a> DraftKings is a US daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting company. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports (the MLB, the NHL, the NFL, the NBA and the PGA), Premier League and UEFA Champions Leag...

FanDuel - About

March 7, 2024 | Categories: covered sportsbooks us sportsbooks

website: <a href="https://www.fanduel.com/">fanduel.com</a> FanDuel Group is a US gambling company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino. They got started as a fantasy football company and later expanded to sportsbetting. FanDuel was founded in 2009 as a daily fantasy sports provider, and mainly competed with DraftKings. In May 2018, in the middle of w...

Betting Term Glossary

March 7, 2024 | Categories: betting terminology

Accumulator Where more than one bet is combined, and success is dependent on all selections winning. Added game A game not part of the Las Vegas regular rotation. A bookmaker may offer odds after a request from a bettor. Aet Soccer abbreviation for ‘After Extra Time’, the additional time played if the game ends in a tie. Alternate lines Derivatives of standard betting markets. Example...