When one thinks about visiting Kenya, they seldom wonder what kind of gambling opportunities exist in the region. Yet, there are a number of casinos in Kenya that can prove the perfect location to plan one’s next vacation. So, just how many Kenya casinos are there and where are to be found? There is a total of thirteen Kenya casinos, all scattered throughout the country. Kenya casinos can be found in Malindi, Mombasa, Nairobi, and Ukunda. Malindi is home to the Casino Malindi; Mombosa has five casinos and the remainder of the Kenya casinos can be found in Nairobi and Ukunda.

Kenya casinos offer an amazing array of gambling. The Casino Malindi located on Luma Road has sixteen different table games including Blackjack, Craps, Indian Ocean Stud, Punto Banco, Roulette and Texas Hold’em. The Casino Malindi also hosts slot machines, thereby appealing to every gambler’s preference.

Alternatively, those visiting Mombasa can visit one of five beautiful casinos, all with something to offer the gambling enthusiast. The Florida Casino in Mombasa is small but fun, offering 5 slots and 7 gaming tables; The Golden Keys offers Poontoon, Blackjack and Roulette; The Leisure Lodge has 4 American Roulette tables and 4 Blackjack tables; The Quarterdeck Casino has Blackjack, Pontoon, and Roulette as well as 28 slots; and finally, the Oceanic Hotel and International Casino of Mombasa, Kenya has 6 Roulette tables, 6 Blackjack tables and 30 slots for gambling entertainment.

Meanwhile, Nairobi, Kenya has no shortage of casinos. The Casino de Paradise is extensive, offering Blackjack, Baccarat, Chemin de Fer, Mini Baccarat, Pontoon, Roulette and an astounding 300 slots! A variety of restaurants easily appease any appetite at the Casino de Paradise: African, Asian, French, and Barbeque delights are all sold on site. Also, the Florida Casino in Nairobi is a smaller and therefore more intimate establishment, supplying guests with 55 slots and ten tables to choose from. Plus, visitors can choose from the International Casino in Nairobi, the Mayfair Hotel and Casino, or the Sixty-Eight Hotel and Casino, as well as the Resort Kenya: all located in the heart of Nairobi.

Finally, a nice diversion can be found in the city of Ukunda, Kenya: the Diani Reef Grand Hotel and Casino fixed along Diani Beach is perfect for both residents and travelers. Offering over 300 rooms, splendid accommodations, diverse menus and table games, gambling connoisseurs truly adore the offerings at the Diani Reef.

Most of us love to make money online, as we want to make our efforts online income-generating. Being stuck on the internet for long hours can be unproductive especially if you are just playing your favorite online game or you just keep on scanning for the top 10 ways to make money online.

When it comes to topics such as this, you can actually find a lot of suggestions online. In fact, you can choose from a lot of money making opportunities on the internet – from the small but constant money generating ventures, to the high risk but big-time moneymaking opportunities. If you have been wanting to make your time productive, online but you don’t know where to start, here are top 10 ways to make money online.

1. Post banners on your site. These banners will make you earn a few dollars by adding them to your site as ads. Banner advertising is popular these days and in fact, you can make big money out of them especially if you do have a good website and if you have lots of visitors to your site.

2. Become an affiliate. If you are good at selling, you can sell other people’s products online through affiliate marketing. You can sign up, begin promoting the product, and earn a commission for as high as 60% on your sales.

3. Sell old stuff on eBay and other online auction sites. If you have things sitting on your basement, you may still find treasures among them. eBay can accommodate those stuff, and who knows someone on the other side of the world still need those, so sell them online.

4. Find a freelance job online. If you have skills in web designing and programming, writing, research, architectural drafting, bookkeeping, data entry and even as virtual assistant, you can actually find a full-time or part-time job online and make good money at it.

5. Take online surveys for a fee. There are a lot of companies who treasure consumer’s opinion on their products, thus you may want to take advantage of this simple way to make money on the internet.

6. Write a blog. Online journals are not just a way of expressing your thoughts and writing down your life experiences, it is also a great way to advertise other people’s businesses and earn from it.

7. Write reviews. If you have a favorite product that you want to share to others, you can actually write reviews and make money out of it. Businesses and companies love to hear the opinion of consumers towards their products and would love to pay you for giving your honest assessment on their product as well.

8. Venture into foreign exchange. If you are a risk taker, you can venture into this large and round-the-clock financial market by buying and selling currencies. Although it involves high risks, you can also make good money from it at any time of day.

9. Online sports betting. If you are a gaming enthusiast, try online sports betting, but make sure it is allowed in your state or area.

10. Be a part-time game tester. If you love online gaming and console games, find jobs online as a game tester. Homebased game testers are needed to perfect your favorite online games and if you have the skills, then why not go for it.

These are just 10 ways to make money online. You can actually find a lot of them online.

They say once you leave home you can never look back, however, someone apparently forgot to tell that to this years crop of first year head coaches in the college ranks, for example, Dave Wannstedt, Charlie Weis and Mike Gundy have accepted positions at their alma maters while Frank Solich, Walt Harris, Terry Hoeppner and Ed Orgeron are moving closer to their home towns, Brent Guy and Bill Cubit have with the addition of big titles made a return appearance to former employers, and lets not forget that Steve Spurrier and Tyrone Willingham have returned to the SEC and Pac-10 which originally spawned them.

In the college ranks there exists a distinct advantage with regard to familiarity, many of this year’s new hires used that same familiarity to their advantage during the interview process, 2005 brings no less that 20 newly hired Division 1-A head coaches, following is a listing of the new HC’s and where the former HC ended up as well as a brief synopsis on what each newbie is walking into…..good luck!

BYU

Head Coach: Bronco Mendenhall

Former HC: Gary Crowton–now the Offensive coordinator at Oregon

Returning BYU to its glory days will be a tough task but new HC Bronco Mendenhall has an outstanding reputation as a near genius when it comes to coaching defense, Mendenhall is only 38 yrs old and this is his first head coaching gig so he has a lot to prove and of course a lot to change in this program when considering that the Cougars have gone a shoddy 14-23 since that stellar 2001 season when they posted a mark of 12-0.

EAST CAROLINA

Head Coach: Skip Holtz

Former HC: John Thompson–now co-defensive coordinator at South Carolina

If the new Pirate skipper has a last name that rings a bell in the back of your mind…it should…he is the 41yr old son of Lou Holtz who retired from South Carolina following last season, Skip Holtz served as his dad’s offensive coordinator with the Gamecocks since 1999 and hoped to succeed his father, however, the availability of Steve Spurrier nixed that notion.

FLORIDA

Head Coach: Urban Meyer

Former HC: Ron Zook–now Head coach at Illinois

Urban Meyer at only 40 years of age is another member of the up and coming crop of young HC’s to keep an eye on, Meyer made his mark at Bowling Green by completely turning around that program in 2001 and then the following year led those Falcons to a top 25 finish.

The past two years Meyer has been at Utah and capped off his short stay by leading the Utes on a 16 game win streak followed by a blow out win over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl which was the first ever BCS bowl appearance by a non-BCS school…in Meyer’s two years at Bowling Green and his two years at Utah he compiled a lofty four year mark of 39-8…look out SEC!

ILLINOIS

Head Coach: Ron Zook

Former HC: Ron Turner–now Offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears

After a disasterous (by Gator standards) three year stay at Florida which saw Ron Zook compile a mark of 23-14 following the departure of Steve Spurrier to the Washington Redskins, the Gator faithful had their fill and ousted Zook, however, somehow someway, Zook landed on his feet and is now heading up the Illini. Zook’s strength is teaching and running a strong defense which of course was former HC Turner’s weakness, only time will tell.

INDIANA

Head Coach: Terry Hoeppner

Former HC: Gerry DiNardo–Currently unemployed

Hoeppner had six winning seasons as the HC at Miami of Ohio and was instrumental in molding star QB Ben Roethlisberger into the prize catch that he turned out to be for the Pittsburgh Steelers, now its off to the Big Ten for Hoeppner who will have his hands full trying to turn around the program at Indiana.

LSU

Head Coach: Les Miles

Former HC: Nick Saban–now Head coach of the Miami Dolphins

It only took Les Miles four short years to bring a down and out Oklahoma State program into the media spotlight as well as gaining a spot in the hearts of the Cowboy faithful after knocking off Oklahoma twice during his tenure. Miles leaves Stillwater with a 28-21 record and three straight bowl appearances.

Oddly enough Miles takes over a Tiger program from former HC Nick Saban who jumped from the college ranks to the NFL ranks with the Miami Dolphins, I say oddly enough because Les Miles took the opposite approach having left the NFL for the college ranks with regard to Miles having been the tight ends coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 1998 to 2000.

In the big scheme of things Miles takes over a Tiger program that was left in great shape by Saban, thus, no re-building needed here, all Miles has to do is keep LSU on the right path, the retention of Jimbo Fisher and addition of Bo Pelini out of Oklahoma to run the offense and defense should have LSU once again in contention for the National Title.

MIAMI OF OHIO

Head Coach: Shane Montgomery

Former HC: Terry Hoeppner–Now Head coach at Indiana

Hoeppner got most of the credit for the success of the Redhawks but those in the know realize that he couldn’t have got it done without Shane Montgomery who served as the RedHawks offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Hoeppner since 2001, those that keep tabs on the rising stars in the coaching world know that in 2003 Montgomery was a finalist for the Broyles Award which is given annually to the game’s top assistant.

Keep an eye on the Redhawks to produce another Ben Roethlisberger with Montgomery’s guidance who in turn was a star QB himself at NC State from 1987 to 1989, Montgomery earned three letters as a Wolfpack QB and was named MVP of the Peach Bowl and Copper Bowl in successive seasons, look for the Hawks to continue to thrive under Montgonery and especially QB Josh Betts who figures to have a break out year.

MISSISSIPPI

Head Coach: Ed Orgeron

Former HC: David Cutcliffe–Now QB coach at Notre Dame

Former HC David Cutcliffe’s fall from grace was swift with the Ole Miss faithful following last seasons mark of 4-7, funny how short their memories are that this same guy posted a combined record of 31-18 in the previous four seasons, but then again QB Eli Manning was on the squad for the previous four years…no Eli no winning season.

Cutcliffe’s demise was really brought about by his less than stellar recruiting skills, in new headman Orgeron the Rebels get a guy that is a proven master at teaching defensive linemen and who also just happens to be one of the top recruiters in the country, Orgeron oversaw the defensive line at Miami, Syracuse and most recently at USC.

He’s also been on the staff of four national championship teams, and has tutored the likes of Cortez Kennedy, Russell Maryland, and Warren Sapp, Oregeron spent seven seasons with the Trojans and over the past four years doubled as the recruiting coordinator…starting to feel bad for opposing offenses in the SEC yet? Don’t feel too badly yet as this is Oregeron’s first gig as the “Man” and the SEC is a lot tougher than the Pac-10.

NEW MEXICO STATE

Head Coach: Hal Mumme

Former HC: Tony Samuel–Currently out of coaching

When you’re New Mexico State and have had losing seasons four of the past five years and have not gone to a Bowl game in 45 years you tend to get a little desperate, enter Hal Mumme who brings tons of baggage along with him stemming from the four years he spend at Kentucky, Mumme built up the Kentucky program and even had a QB taken #1 in the draft (Tim Couch) but in the end he left them in disgrace amid more than three dozen NCAA violations, the past two seasons Mumme has been in exile heading up the Southeastern Louisiana program.

NOTRE DAME

Head Coach: Charlie Weis

Former HC: Tyrone Willingham–Now Head coach at Washington

Charlie Weis is one of the more intriguing additions to this years crop of new HC’s in the college ranks as Weis is making a return to his alma mater and is fresh off his third Super Bowl as the offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots.

Not only is Weis going to be a college head coach for the first time ever but this is also his first job outside the NFL since leading Franklin Township (N.J.) High School to a state title in 1989. Weis is a classic rags-to-riches story of a coach, who didn’t play the game and earned his stripes at the high school level before Bill Parcells gave him his first break in 1990, since then he’s spent every season working for either Parcells or Bill Belichek.

OHIO UNIVERSITY

Head Coach: Frank Solich

Former HC: Brian Knorr–Currently out of coaching

Ohio’s landing of Frank Solich is another surprising hire in the college ranks and makes Ohio a team to keep an eye on this year, Solich is originally from the Cleveland area which probably explains this move on his part after being unceremoniously dumped by Nebraska after posting a mark of 58-19 during his tenure, Solich brings a wealth of experience to this small MAC school, unfortunately for Ohio this job is probably just a stepping stone for Solich.

OKLAHOMA STATE

Head Coach: Mike Gundy

Former HC: Les Miles–Now Head coach at LSU

Gundy has spent most of his adult life in Stillwater and still holds the record as Oklahoma State’s all time leading passer, he was the offensive coordinator at this program under Les Miles and with the departure of Miles to LSU was promoted to the HC which makes him the youngest head coach in division I-A football, look for Gundy to keep the Cowboys on course.

PITTSBURGH

Head Coach: Dave Wannstedt

Former HC: Walt Harris–Now Head coach at Stanford

After 16 mostly up and down years in the NFL coaching Dallas, Chicago, and Miami, Dave “Wanny” Wannstedt returns home to Pittsburgh and to his alma mater in an attempt to bring back the glory years of the 1970’s to Pittsburgh when the Panthers and Steelers ruled the roost, don’t be surprised if the media reports “Wanny” asking the advice of Jimmy Johnson when considering that together they won a national championship in 1987 and a pair of Super Bowls in the early 1990’s.

SAN JOSE STATE

Head Coach: Dick Tomey

Former HC: Fitz Hill–Currently out of coaching

Most coaches are retiring at age 66 but not Dick Tomey who will attempt to breathe life into a Spartan program that’s had one winning season since 1992, the Spartans should improve under Tomey who was the defensive genius behind the famed Desert Swarm defense during his tenure at Arizona, Tomey took the Arizona Wildcats to seven bowl trips and the program’s only Top 10 finishes in 1993 and 1998 but he will be hard pressed to duplicate that kind of success with the Spartans who posted a 2-9 record last year and have gone a combined 14-33 over the past four seasons.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Head Coach: Steve Spurrier

Former HC: Lou Holtz–Retired from coaching

Major kudo’s must be given to the Gamecocks for replacing one legendary coach with another as Steve Spurrier makes his return to the college sidelines following two forgettable seasons with the Washington Redskins, whether you like Spurrier or not you have to recognize his brilliance and ability as he sustained one of the greatest coaching runs in the modern era of college football while at Florida, in 12 seasons with the Gators Spurrier compiled a 122-27-1 record, won six SEC titles and won a national championship. Look for the ole ball coach to have the Gamecocks competing for their first SEC title before long.

STANFORD

Head Coach: Walt Harris

Former HC: Buddy Teevens–Now Head coach at Dartmouth

Walt Harris returns home to Northern California following five straight winning seasons and last year’s Big East championship while at Pittsburgh, however, Harris was not well liked in Pittsburgh and could not get along with superiors which caused constant controversy and mudslinging in the media. Harris is however, a major upgrade over Teevens and should be able to bring stability to the Stanford program.

SYRACUSE

Head Coach: Greg Robinson

Former HC: Paul Pasqualoni–Now Assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys

It took 30 years as an assistant coach but Greg Robinson has finally landed his first HC job, Robinson spent the first 15 years of his career at the college level and last fall as the co-coordinator of the Texas defense but he’s actually best known for his achievements in the NFL, from 1994 to 2003 Robinson was the defensive coordinator for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos, and Kansas City Chiefs, picking up Super Bowl rings with Denver in 1997 and 1998.

Here’s a nugget to keep in mind my friend, in eight bowl appearances as an assistant coach which includes four Rose Bowls with UCLA and Texas, Robinson coached teams have yet to lose. Robinson is a firey competitor and figures to bring it with him to Syracuse so keep an eye on this team as a possible giant killer in the watered down Big East.

UNLV

Head Coach: Mike Sanford

Former HC: John Robinson–Retired from coaching

Utah’s unprecedented success last fall opened the door for Utah HC Urban Meyer to take the Florida job, for assistant coach Kyle Whittingham to take over in Utah and for Mike Sanford to take over the program at UNLV. Along with Urban Meyer, Mike Sanford was one of the architects of a Ute spread offense which baffled defenses last season.

UNLV is a program to watch as they have a ton of potential, look for Sanford to bring a fresh energy and an option attack that’s geared toward putting fans in the stands and points on the board.

UTAH

Head Coach: Kyle Whittingham

Former HC: Urban Meyer–Now Head coach at Florida

Whittingham has spent the past ten years as the defensive coordinator at Utah and now gets his shot to strut his stuff as he takes over for Urban Meyer and assumes his first head coaching position. During his tenure in Salt Lake City the former BYU linebacker has regularly produced underrated and fundamentally sound defenses that have ranked in the Top 25 in points allowed six of the last eight years.

Whittingham has his work cut out for him at Utah as expectations are very high following last seasons 12-0 mark, the Utes became the first non-BCS school to win a BCS bowl game and the Utah faithful want more of the same. The problem is that it won’t be so easy this coming year as offensive masterminds Urban Meyer and Mike Sanford are gone.

UTAH STATE

Head Coach: Brent Guy

Former HC: Mick Dennehy–Currently out of coaching

Brent Guy spent the past four years as Arizona State’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach and now becomes the 25th head coach in Utah State history. No stranger to Logan, he coached Aggie linebackers from 1992 to 1994 and was Dirk Koetter’s defensive coordinator at Boise State from 1998 to 2000 when the Broncos won two Big West titles , Guy’s Bronco defense led the league in total defense and scoring defense in back to back seasons.

Utah State’s move to the WAC and need to upgrade facilities signal a pivotal time in the program’s history, those around Cache Valley are hopeful the high energy Guy can effectively usher in a new era of Aggie football while helping raise the $16 million needed to give Romney Stadium an extreme makeover, those that have followed Aggie football know that while Guy is a key to the future he is also a bridge to the past as he was on staff in 1993 when the school captured its only bowl win.

WASHINGTON

Head Coach: Tyrone Willingham

Former HC: Keith Gilbertson–Currently out of coaching

After his highly publicized dismissal from Notre Dame Tyrone Willingham returns to the familiar Pac-10 which spawned him, Willingham was at Stanford prior to taking over the Irish and guided the Cardinal to their first league title and Rose Bowl appearance in nearly three decades and was twice named Pac-10 Coach of the Year.

Say what you will about Ty Willingham but the fact of the matter is that he’s the epitome of sideline professionalism and preparation, after failing to turn around the Irish in three years some have begun to wonder out loud if he’s just an average head coach, however, with only one bowl win in ten years as a college coach you really can’t blame the doubters.

WESTERN MICHIGAN

Head Coach: Bill Cubit

Former HC: Gary Darnell-Currently out of coaching

Cubit returns to Kalamazoo where he coached the Bronco offense to some impressive results from 1997 to 1999, Cubit’s only college head coaching experience came at D-III Widener from 1992 to 1996. With W. Michigan riding a streak of four straight losing seasons capped off by last seasons 1-10 finish, anyone could have predicted a change.

A look at the roster shows the name of QB Ryan Cubit, yup, a father and son combo, it has to be sort of weird when your dad’s the HC, but at least Ryan won’t have to work too hard learning a new system since his dad has been his teacher since birth.

Poker Stars, the dominating force and market share leader is about to take even more steps to make sure that all of it’s players enjoy the fairest playing environment on the internet. Already with the strictest policy in regards to third party assistant software the security department at Poker Stars has decided that they need to go farther due to recent changes in the third party programming market.

The changes referred to, are an increasing amount of third party designers creating products that blatantly market and claim to have a dishonest edge for users when utilizing their software while playing online poker for real money.

Last year, I was trying a product called Poker Edge for review when during my testing a window came up from my poker table alerting me to stop using the software. I later received an email saying that if I continued to use Poker Edge or related products my account and the funds in it will be seized by Poker Stars. I was just testing for less than an hour when that happened.

I later got information from Poker Stars administration as to why Poker Edge was not allowed and they clearly demonstrated to me its black hat programming that actually mines data via a community of users. This data, which can display an opponent’s style of play and cash win/loss record can be used by the software user to his advantage. The idea is that you can join a table of players unknown to you and sit down with a dossier of information and history of those players that have happened to be tracked by others who have played with them before.

This crosses the line as far as Poker Stars is concerned as an unfair advantage, and you can lose your account and funds for using Poker Edge and others like it.

To take the fairness issue even further, previously accepted poker calculators like Calculatem Pro WinHoldem, and Poker Pro 2007 which offer “bot” like bet, raise, check, or fold recommendations will also likely become banned as those features fall under a newly phrased black-hat issue called “programmable profiles” which essentially refers to a software’s capability of offering advice to the user based on an opponent’s style of play.

When you download software from a poker site with the intention of playing online, you also agree to terms during the download process. One of those implicit terms is that the site, in this case Poker Stars has the power to scan your hard drive when they see fit. You could very well assume this is random “crawling” but the speed of which Stars knows you are using black hat software leads me to believe it is much more frequent than random scans.

I think the brain trust at correctly realizes it needs to set the standard in this issue as part and parcel to help maintain its now dominating market share. Other sites like Full Tilt, Absolute, and Ultimate Bet should take note here. In the long run Poker Stars has it right in believing that this issue will be an underlying motivation to play at any given poker website.

There are many theories, guides and strategies on the Internet on how you can make spread betting profitable and successful and I wouldn’t disagree with most of them but on this page I outline what I have found successful in my spread betting career.

Research

This is the single most vital part of spread betting and what I find to be a very enjoyable part, going on the quest for knowledge and information and finding new sources is brilliant. In sports like cricket you should always find out the weather, wicket, team selection and any team rifts but more specifically you need to be able to realise what the likely outcomes are for such events, ask yourself questions will favourites be winning in horse races when the going is good to fair. In football it makes a massive difference about team morale and rifts in the squad and arguments between players i.e. when Nistlerooy was dropped by Fergie, United’s av.goals per game dropped by roughly 0.3 which has a knock affect on the total goals market. Any bet you make check that you are betting on it for the right reasons not just a hunch factual information is needed to form an opinion valid enough to put a bet on. That is where profit is won and lost (plus a bit of luck).

Account management

Create a spreadsheet listing all your bets details such as what sport, what market, whether you bought or sold, where your research or tip came from, quantity staked and profit or loss.
e.g.

|Sport | Market | Buy/Sell | Research/Tip | Stake | Spread | Profit/Loss |

| Golf | Leaderboard | Buy | Spreadbuddy | £10 | 9-11 | +£90 |

By completing your betting history into a table such as this you can obtain valuable information over a period of time, such as which sports are returning your interest with money, which markets are best to buy or sell, if any tipsters are actually good at what they do or and if the research you did into the bet paid off. If you are doing research into what betting strategies work for you I would recommend trying to keep to a level stake so you can gauge easily what is successful and what is not.

Always be fully aware of the possible profits and losses of every bet you make before confirming each bet, because as much as a banker that you think a bet is you are still aware of the outcome should it turn on its head.

Market Selection

From past experiences I would strongly recommend only dabbling with the markets that you fully understand, by this I mean from the sport you are betting on, to the type of market you are betting on such as total goals. Many people have got caught out with some markets for example I have read about people thinking that a total goals stake was for each decimal point not per goal, so instead of betting a £200 stake for each goal they placed a £20 stake thinking it was for each decimal point. It turns out the punter won £42 instead of the £420 he thought he was receiving.

Weather Effects

Be aware of what effect the weather has on each sport that you back and always do your research on what the weather forecast is for that particular region. For example with cricket if there are thunder storms ahead locally and you know about it before the spread companies get told you can jump on selling total runs for that day and make a killing, or things like sunny Formula 1 races attract much faster lap times than when the wet tyres have to come out.

Find the value

As a Spread bettor you need to be able to define the difference between value and a winner, a bet with value does not always mean that you have a winner on your hands, value means that the spread is actually over estimated or underestimated to a likely outcome. Take for instance the Republic of Ireland vs. Holland match in this Ireland had around 8 players out injured, assistant boss Sir Bobby Robson had been taken ill and Steve Staunton had a fracas which involved him being threatened with a gun pointed at his head. On top of this new kid on the block in Dutch football Huntelaar was making his first international start, combined together I would say a comprehensible victory for Holland. The spread companies did not think so by saying Holland would win by 0.4 goals I disagreed and won £850 that is a good definition of value in a market.

Mathematical Betting

Mathematical betting can be very profitable and successful, my personal opinion is view the statistics, and take them into account but by no means rely on mathematical betting unless you have been told of an arbitrage. Mathematical betting does not take into account the climate of football clubs the transfers in and out of clubs that can have a massive impact. Here is an extreme example of what could happen betting on mathematical previous statistics, Aston Villa have not beaten Arsenal in the league for 10 years only scoring 2 goals whilst conceding 25 goals, in the summer a multi billionaire takeover happens of Aston Villa and spends 200million on transfers, whilst at Arsenal the manager leaves their star striker leaves and the team is in disaray and lack any form of direction. This is an extreme example of how statistics can’t give you a full insight into how this match could turn out.

Analyse Market Movers

Market movers can prove to be very profitable to a spread bettor, there is not a general rule for negative and positive market movers just to analyse and look for information as to reasons why the prices are moving so much, horse racing is best for this but there is limited time to research the reasons, most of the time there are justified reasons for the change in price so it can be worth jumping on before it plummets further, other times it could be moving in the wrong direction opening up the chance for more value in the spread, an example of this was England’s price in the world cup, a huge amount of patriotic backing lead to the price being inaccurate regardless of the chance of England winning the world cup.

Negative thinking proves profitable

In general people like to bet on what they think of as a positive outlook to a bet such as Manchester United winning as opposed to Manchester City losing, I don’t just mean on win indexes, look at performances and what can be sold because the amount of people buying on spreads out numbers the sellers meaning an unjustified higher spread but do your research as this is not always the case.

Myths of always buying on markets

There are a lot of myths where if you always buy or sell on a specific market on average you will end up winning and after a lot of research this is not the case, in the very early days of spread betting there was markets which you could manipulate but those days have gone as spread companies soon realise if their spreads are constantly over estimated/ under estimated.