4. Your first bet

First of all, you need to select the events from the line. Some “lovers to bet” often bet on everything in sight, of which they have at least some idea (and sometimes, worse, on everything at all). It is wrong. You always have to carefully select the events for the bets, as a rule, by the degree of confidence in the outcome of an event. Coefficients here do not necessarily have to play a significant role, after all, if for some chosen events there will be no outcomes with the coefficients that suit you, you can (and should) not to bet on them. But on the other hand, some events can attract you by the coefficient for a particular outcome, and this is also normal: in particular, the strategy called Value Betting is based on this.

After choosing events (matches), you have to choose the outcomes in each event, on which you are going to bet.

Let’s consider a few simple examples of bets:

Let’s say you are interested in the Champions League matches:

Football. Champions League

Ordinary:
Bet on a particular outcome of an event. The gain at a single bet is equal to the product of the bet amount on the coefficient set for this outcome.

Example.
Suppose you made a bet $100 on the win of Deportivo. The gain coefficient for the bet on the win of Deportivo is 2.3. If Deportivo wins, payment will make $100 х 2.3 = $230.

Express:
Bet on several independent outcomes of the events. To win on the express, it is necessary that none of the outcomes that are included in the express, will lose. The gain on the express is equal to the product of the bet amount and the coefficients of all outcomes included in the express.
Example.
Deportivo - Juventus: win 1 2.3
Porto - Manchester Utd: draw 3.05
Stuttgart - Chelsea: win 2 2.45
(coef. 2.3 х 3.05 х 2.45 = 17.19) 100$
means a bet $100 on the win of Deportivo, draw of Porto vs. Manchester Utd, and the win of Chelsea. If at least one of these events is not guessed, then the bet loses. If everything is guessed, then the bet wins, and the amount to be paid is $100 x 17.19 = $ 1719.

System:
The complex of expresses, which is a complete bust of variants of expresses of the same size from a fixed set of outcomes. In fact, three separate bets are made – three double expresses. The bet amount for each express is 1/3 of the total bet amount and each express in the system is calculated as a separate bet. The advantage of this type of betting compared to regular expresses is that in the case of one mistake the entire express is considered lost, and in the system only those variants, that include this false bet, lose. When you bet on the system, you need to specify the total number of outcomes and the dimension of the express (system option). The gain on the system is equal to the sum of the gains on the expresses included in the system.

Example: a system of three teams, combining expresses two teams each ("two of three"), the bet is $90:

Deportivo - Juventus: win 1 2.3
Porto – Manchester Utd: draw 3.05
Stuttgart - Chelsea: win 2 2.45 $90

We get a full set of expresses (total 3):
Deportivo - Juventus: win 1 2.3
Porto – Manchester Utd: draw 3.05
(coef. 7.02 $30)

Porto – Manchester Utd: draw 3.05
Stuttgart - Chelsea: win 2 2.45
(coef. 7.47 $30)

Deportivo - Juventus: win 1 2.3
Stuttgart - Chelsea: win 2 2.45
(coef. 5.64 $30)

The gain is formed as the sum of gains from the played express. In this example, if all three matches are guessed, the gain will be $30x7.02 + $30x7.47 + $30x5.64 = $603.9. If one of the matches is not guessed, then only one express will win (the one that does not include this match). For example, the match Deportivo - Juventus ended in a draw, then only the second express played and the win will be equal to $224.1. If two or all three matches will not play in this example, then there will be no winning expresses.

Bets on outcomes:

• w1 – win of the first team;
• Х - draw;
• w2 – win of the second team;
• 1Х – win of the first team or draw;

• Х2 – win of the second team or draw;

  Bets with handicap:

• H1 – handicap on bets on the first team;

• C1 – coefficient on bet on the first team with handicap;
• H2 – handicap on bets on the second team;
• C2 – coefficient on bet on the second team with handicap;

If you bet with a handicap, the handicap is added to the number of goals of the chosen team, or subtracted if the handicap is negative. If after the addition/subtraction the selected team won, the bet played, if the result is a draw, it is a return (a payout with a coefficient 1), if it lost, the bet did not play.

Example. You bet on Deportivo with a handicap of "-1" $100. If Deportivo wins 2 goals or more (2: 0, 3:0, 3: 1, etc.), the bet will play, the gain will make $1002.3=$230. If Deportivo wins 1 goal win (1:0, 2:1, 3:2, etc.), then the bet is to be returned. If Deportivo plays a draw or loses, the bet will not play.*

Handicap with the purchase:
Addition of 0.5 goals (or a multiple value) to the negative or substraction from the positive handicap, with respective decrease of a coefficient.

Example: the line has the handicap on Porto (0) with coef. 1.9. We purchase half of a goal by lowering the coefficient and we have a handicap (+0.5), and coef. Becomes equal to 1.50.

Bets on total:

Total is the number of goals (points, scores) scored in the match in total by both teams, or by one of the teams (team total Team1, Team2); *M, L – the coefficient for the outcome in the form of More/Less relative to the Total proposed by the bookmaker;

*Example. Deportivo - Juventus Total More than 2.5 100$.
The match ended with a score 2:1 (2+1=3>2.5), the gain is 100$ *2.0=$200. The match ended with a score 0:1 (0+1=1<2.5), the bet lost. *

Bets on the HALF-MATCH:

• W1W1 (W1D, DD, etc.) – the outcome of the first half time (W1w1) and the match as a whole (w1W1);

Example. Deportivo - Juventus W1W2 (Deportivo wins the first half-time, Juventus wins the whole match) coef. 7.7 $100
First half ended with a score 1:0, Match ended with a score 1:2, the gain is 100$7.7=770$*

And finally, helpful advice: never change your opinion, the outcome, on which you are going to bet, “at the last minute “at the last gasp” at the cash box in the offline office or by keeping the mouse cursor on the button “Make a bet” online. It is especially difficult to resist this in the first case, especially when you share your thoughts aloud, and your “colleagues” can convince you to change your mind. In this case it is better to refuse to bet altogether, or to step back and think again than, having yielded to your own impulsiveness, to change your decision at a countdown.