The best way to read sports betting lines and commence winning


While betting on sports isn’t legal practically in most states in America, you can still bet when you go online. You can practically bet on any sports such as football, basketball, baseball as well as on car races and horse racing, be it college sports or even professional sports including those hosted by pros such as the NFL, NBA, and NHL. While sports betting lines differ according to the sports, most have common features that mention names of the teams including the favored and the underdog, the odds, the over, under and also on points and the spread, if any on the outcome of the match. While it seems complicated, an example can help in simplifying the matter easily. For instance, a Dallas against Pittsburgh football match could display the subsequent sports betting lines.

Dallas -11.5-130 -180
Pittsburgh +11.5-130 +220
38.5 ov-130


The last numbers on both the lines indicate the money line. If you’d like to bet on any team winning the match outright, then you’ll need to bet on the money line. If you bet on the underdog then your risk is higher and you simply win extra money at a lower stake whereas when you bet for the favored team you’ll win a lesser prize even as you’ll need to put in a higher stake. Hence should you bet on Pittsburg, i.e. the underdogs then your $100 stake will give you an additional $220 if they win the match but if Dallas win and you’ve betted with them then this stake of $180 will get you an additional $100.


You can start by gambling only on outright outcomes of each game or match before venturing on to gambling on spreads and over-under. The aforementioned sample is only one example that could make your entry into sports betting faster and easier. Once you learn on how to read sports betting lines then you can fine-tune your tactic to win huge amounts of money.