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What Are Blackjack Side Bets?Side bets are bonus bets placed on a round of Blackjack on outcomes beyond whether the player or dealer will win. The majority are staked at the start of the round before the cards have been dealt alongside regular bets and many have fixed odds that usually offer greater payouts than the simple 2:1 rewarded for beating the dealer.Play Blackjack at Pinnacle Casino

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Side bets provide an exciting way to make Blackjack games more interesting whilst offering you a greater number of ways to win. So what are side bets, what side bets are available and are they worth it? Read on to find out.

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Finding a niche market in betting can often lead to value. This can be anything from specialist knowledge of handball betting to extensive experience in betting on Japanese baseball. Providing you know more than the bookmaker, there is money to be made.  &lt;Bet on soccer at Pinnacle&gt; They also make for interesting and potentially profitable bets, as they can be a little more reliable

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A corner is one of the most inexplicably exciting events in soccer. Only around three per cent of them lead to a goal, but you can guarantee that the attacking team’s fans will roar their approval and encouragement if their team are awarded one. Read on to find out how you can benefit from betting on corners.

Corners betting in soccer: Value in a lesser-known market

Poisson Distribution is a mathematical concept for translating mean averages into a probability for variable outcomes across a distribution. For example, if we know Manchester City average 1.7 goals per game, so by putting the Poisson Distribution formula tells us that this average equates to Manchester City&nbsp;scoring 0 goals 18.3% of the time, 1 goal 31% of the time, 2 goals 26.4% of the time and 3 goals 15% of the time.

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What is Expected Value?The amount a player can expect to win or lose if they were to place a bet on the same odds many times over, calculated through a simple equation multiplying your probability of winning with the amount you could win per bet, and subtracting the probability of losing multiplied by the amount lost per bet.A simple example of Expected Value (EV) put into practice -&nbsp;if you were

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The Expected Value of a bet shows us how much we can expect to win (on average) per bet, and as such is the most valuable calculation a bettor can make when comparing bookmakers' odds. How can you calculate Expected Value in sports betting in order to predict your winnings? Read on to find out.

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We have a team of editors and writers at Pinnacle, as well as a collection of external contributors, ranging from university lecturers and renowned authors, to ex-traders and esteemed sports experts. Collectively, the Pinnacle team and external contributors produce the educational content within Betting Resources.

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Pinnacle’s business model is built on three pillars.
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The more bettors that understand the concept of ‘value’, and how bookmakers work, the more will appreciate these core principles. This is why we take a proactive approach to educating our customers through Betting Resources. We want smarter customers and Betting Resources - with&nbsp;a Live Feed full of expert content and unique betting updates&nbsp;- will help us achieve this.

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Betting Resources is one of the largest collections of betting related educational content online. There are over 800 articles in our archive that cover both a wide range of subjects, as well as learning levels.&nbsp;
Listening to our customers we realised that there are many hungry to be challenged with complex betting concepts. If that sounds like you our advanced level articles should satisfy your thirst for knowledge like <a href="https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-strategy/how-to-build-a-betting-model">how to build a betting model</a> or <a href="https://www.pinnacle.com/en/basketball/nba-preseason-betting-framing-prices">apply Pythagorean expectation and the Log 5 method to NBA prices</a>.
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We have a team of authors who not only have a great understanding of betting concepts and strategies, but also have expert knowledge of the sports they can be applied to. From soccer, football and baseball, to basketball, tennis and many more, our in-depth preview articles can help bettors implement strategies in the right way.

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