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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.

Blackjack Side Bets Explained

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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Poisson Distribution: Predict the score in soccer betting

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.

How to Calculate Expected Value

Find out the meaning of soccer handicap betting, how it works and the different types of soccer handicap betting markets available at Pinnacle. Continue reading to become a handicap betting expert.

What is handicap soccer betting?

Bettors should always look for a mathematical edge rather than rely on their impulses. Learning how to use the Kelly Criterion, for example, is a great way for bettors to determine how much they should stake. Read on to find out.

How to Use Kelly Criterion for Betting

Soccer bettors are increasingly looking for more profitable markets than 1X2, for which a lack of goals or a late equaliser can deny even the best judgments a winning bet. A straightforward way to try and beat the bookies on the soccer front is with the Over/Under goals markets. This article offers a simple step-by-step guide on how to calculate probabilities for the expected number of goals in a match and convert them into odds, so that you know what to bet on and what to avoid.

How to beat the bookies in the Over/Under market

An introduction to probability theory how it relates to the sports betting market, plus the role of Bayesian inference in gambling. Betting data expert Bryan Nicholson explains how it works and how you can be successful in your betting.

Introduction to probability theory and Bayesian inference in gambling

What is a sports betting market? The most basic definition is that a betting market is where money is exchanged between bettors and bookmakers on the outcome of a particular event, with prices set and moved according to a variety of factors.

Vigorish betting - Beating the vigorish with conditional probability in sports betting

True skill in sports betting can be best measured by how closely your theoretical Expected Value correlates to your Return on Investment over a sufficient sample size. Your record over smaller samples or small data can be an indicator of strength of performance depending on how quantifiable the uncertainty of the bets in your portfolio were, but in general, the bigger the sample the better.

How do we measure performance and true skill in sports betting?

In my first Pinnacle Sports article, I analysed the performance of men’s tennis underdogs by comparing Grand Slam performance against other ATP tournaments.


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The conclusion was that, overall, it was a disaster to bet on the underdogs. We saw that the favourite-longshot bias was much more prevalent in Grand Slam matches than non-Grand Slam matches.
Some of the reasons we adduced were: a lower demand elasticity for underdogs in Grand Slams than in non-Grand Slams by bettors, bettors not fully evaluating the impact of the “best-of-five sets factor”, and/or bookmakers being more risk averse on longshots due to an increased risk.
In this article I have conducted the same exercise for the ATP Masters 1000 events.

Underdog Betting: Why bet on the underdog in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament?

The expected goal statistic is a popular prediction tool. Can bettors use expected goals to determine an accurate outcome? Betting analyst Joseph Buchdahl crunches the data and determines whether expected goals can predict soccer outcomes.

Can xG be used to predict soccer matches for a betting profit?

Goalimpact (or its predecessor) was born in the year 2004. Jörg Seidel, the founder, was invited by his investment banker colleagues at a former company to bet on the 2004 European Championships. Jörg was not really interested in soccer (at the time, that is - now he supports Werder Bremen), but he was good at building models, mainly due to his academic background in finance and physics, plus his ability to code. Thus, he ended up creating an algorithm for the tournament that calculated probable game outcomes to fill out his betting sheet.