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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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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

Over 1,600 of our customers played Guess the Number &ndash; the first Pinnacle Puzzle. All those entries have been summed, averaged and multiplied by two-thirds producing a winning number of 20. See if you were one of the three lucky first prize winners.

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The second Pinnacle Puzzle, the Wisdom of the Crowd, was designed to see whether collective knowledge would produce an increasingly accurate estimate of an unknown – in this case the numbers of chocolate balls in a bowl. Read below to find out the answer, to see if you were a winner and discover if the crowd were wise.

Wisdom of the crowd

The Pinnacle Premier League Puzzle was a resounding success. After 30 intense EPL games in August, one Pinnacle player won the $4k top prize. Read on to find out the winners and the winning totals.

Premier League Puzzle

Are you a fan of puzzles? In early 2014 over 1,600 of Pinnacle’s customers said yes and participated in a game theory puzzle that invited them to pick a whole number from 0 to 100 with the aim of getting as close as possible to two-thirds of the average of all guesses. The results revealed a lot about how people struggle with logic and accounting for other people's behaviour; a great analogy for betting markets.

The Guess The Number Puzzle

From the financial markets to sports betting, when it comes to making predictions, the idea that a group’s collective judgment tends to outperform that of an expert individual is well established. In an attempt to test the collective wisdom of Pinnacle’ players, we invited them to participate in a puzzle for the chance to win cash prizes. How well would you do?

Putting the ‘Wisdom of Crowds” to the test

The Pinnacle Puzzle will train you to think logically and develop skills that can be applied to betting. Some of these questions have been used in Pinnacle’s interview process when hiring a new Trader. Are you smart enough to be a Pinnacle Trader? Read on to see if you’ve got what it takes.

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