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Do you guys know of any good/must read books for sports betting? I was wondering if they had any good reads on the topic where i might be able to learn a thing or two!


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Smart Money and The Odds

Not great pieces of literature, but the best we have that I know of
 

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give it a few years and you can write your own

"My Life Sucks and I Got No Money"......then you can follow that up with

"My Life Sucks and I Got No Money Vol. 2"
 

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Smackin Suckas

A great source for books on all kinds of gambling is The Gamblers Books Shop in Las Vegas. They have a great website (click on red type face to visit) that breaks their entire inventory down by category and author etc.

They will ship to anywhere in the US almost immediately upon ordering via UPS or even Fed Ex..

Recommended Insights into Sports Betting.

The inventory is so huge you will run into some books that are dated a bit such as anything by the author of Insights into Sports Betting, the late Bob McCune. However despite being written in the 1980s and early 1990s his books (he has around half a dozen) are still relevent for the most part. For example sound advice on money management then is still pertinent today.


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For current up to date how to bet baseball - Betting Baseball 2010..

Mike Murray, an admirer of the legendary Sabermetrics genius Bill James, says about betting baseball, '... it can be the most profitable game out there.'

He understands the importance of analyzing statistics and explains it well. He looks at the money line; follows with the run line. The section on totals looks at two seasons and what the key numbers were and how often they were landed on. He answers questions such as: How does one measure offense?

How much weight do we give to pitching and what three categories does a pitcher have complete control over (strikeouts, walks and home runs allowed)? Can one measure consistency in starters and what about injuries? How does a bettor factor items like number of innings pitched? And he dissects and examines unique areas like wind, temperature, humidity and overall individual ballpark effects to help totals bettors be more disciplined.

Explains how to create your own baseball line. For those who believe umpires play a key role in determining number of runs scored in a game because of individual quirks or interpretation of the strike zone, Murray also explains Ques-Tec (a computerized technique to help 'standardize the strike zone').

A special section on umpires discusses Umpire Rotation; Adjusting Your Totals; Home Umpires; Rating Umpires by name and performance; and Over-Under Results for Each Umpire.

Betting Baseball 2010.


Revised to include the 2006 season's information. 104 pages, paperbound, 2009.

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Note by wilheim:


One thing a player must take into consideration when buying gambling "how to" books is there are no guarantees you will automatically end up a winner having read a book a week for 3 years. Handicapping sports or gambling in any form requires intelligence, patience, a bank roll and most of all discipline just for starters.

I highly recommend that players educate themselves as much as possible before they gamble but in the end even with a lot of knowledge stored in your head or in your PC winning consistently is hard work and very different than working to bring home a paycheck every Friday...

Sometime that hard work does not payoff because of a batted ball that just misses being fair by an inch, a turn of a card that makes an inside straight for your not so sharp opponent, or an animal simply not running it's best on a particular day can destroy all the hard work in the world on occasion but in the long run hard work and discipline will pay off more often than it doesn't.

Bottom line though I have always felt that "Gambling is very hard way to make an easy living". (originally said by so called Rounders about playing poker for a living but the same thing goes with betting on sports for a living).

BOL. wil.
 
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