Online sports betting gamblers are not as afraid as they used to be to lay big prices at the sportsbook. What do you have to do to lay the big numbers in baseball betting and be successful at the online sportsbook?
Online sportsbook big prices are not uncommon. It used to be that the biggest home chalk you were likely to see would be around $-220 or so but nowadays your typical home team with its top pitcher going against a weak opponent could be laying -$300 or more at the sportsbook. Part of the reason for the dramatic increase in home prices at the sportsbook is because of that increase in casual sports betting whose first instinct is to bet on power teams and power pitchers at home.
To these sportsbook bettors, the dream scenario is taking the Yankees at home against the Royals. The problem nowadays is that when the “impossible” does happen, which it inevitably does from time to time in baseball, it takes weeks to make up for that one loss. Of course you will win most of the time taking large favorites but you can no longer make a living at it at versus the sportsbook odds because the sportsbook oddsmakers have made losing too expensive.
Now before you hang your head and lament regret about never being able to afford taking good teams and pitchers at the online sportsbook, take comfort from the fact that you actually can, but you have to take them on the road. The masses that bet baseball at the sportsbook, just as is the case in other sports, don’t like taking road teams in sports betting. But the good teams are at their greatest online sportsbook value on the road precisely because the masses don’t want them, so you get a quality team and top-shelf pitcher at a bargain rate.
Betting baseball at an online sportsbook can be profitable but only if you are value conscience at all times and don’t fall into the trap of betting with the crowd. Always look first at the road teams and then the dogs and avoid laying huge prices at the online sportsbook. If you can stick to that simple approach you can end up in the minority group of online sportsbook gamblers that turn a profit betting baseball.