Today, a huge number of people are addicted to gambling, such as poker, roulette, slot machines, etc. However, there are people for whom such entertainment is primarily a profit.
Sports betting as a means of earning
All those involved in sports betting in bookmakers dream of getting a stable income, but this happens with a very small percentage of users. Most place bets on absolutely all sporting events, regardless of how well versed in a particular sport. In turn, those who really earn on bets carefully study the event, the statistics of the meetings, the state of the team and individual players. And only after weighing all the pros and cons do they make a concrete decision for each match individually, taking into account the risk.
What are the bets?
There are many different types of bets in sports predictions. The player can bet on the victory or loss of a team. This is perhaps considered one of the simplest and most common forecasts. Many people prefer to place their bets on the correct account or the head start of one of the teams. Today, bookmakers offer a very wide line of events, which presents such bets as the number of corner kicks, whether a penalty will be awarded in the match, the number of fouls and removals, and even the number of minutes added. Also in bookmakers there is such a thing as total. What is total, we will try to understand this article. We’ll also try to understand what additional betting options for a similar event mean.
Total - what is it?
Many unprofessional privateers, when they hear this word, get scared, because they cannot understand the meaning of such a bet. Let's try to find out the meaning of the word total.
Translated from English, this means “total” or “amount”, in the same way in bookmakers. Total sports betting is one of the most common events. It shows the total number of goals scored when it comes to football. In the case of basketball - points, hockey - the number of goals, etc. "General" means the amount of goals scored by both teams.
There are two different bets on total - these are TM and TB, which means "total less" and "total more." For each type, the addition is the number of goals or goals scored or points earned. Let's take an example and try to put on the total.
What is TM (2.5)?
Imagine that in a football match Arsenal and Liverpool meet, the total for the match is proposed by TM (2.5). That is, this bet will play if no more than two goals are scored for both teams in the entire match. Thus, the gain will be in the case of the final score: 0-0; 0-1; 1-0; 1-1; 2-0 and 0-2. In all other cases, the total goals will exceed the total value for this match, namely 2.5, which means that the TM bet (2.5) will be lost. If TM (2.5) is lost, then TB (2.5) wins. There is another type of forecast for total.
What is TM (2)?
The meaning is absolutely the same as in the previous case. The exception is the moment if the number of goals scored will be equal to two, that is, the score: 1-1; 2-0 or 0-2. In this case, the total will be neither less nor more than two, which means that the bet cannot be considered winning or losing. This is a kind of draw between a bookmaker and a privateer, and in this case, the odds are equal to one, and its amount is returned to the person who bet it.
How to win the total?
Many professional privateers are of the opinion that betting exclusively on the total match can lead to a good win, and if you approach them correctly, then to constant earnings. Today there are a huge number of strategies for betting on the total, using them correctly, you can extract solid profit.
The main thing is to remember that before you put serious amounts on certain systems and strategies, you need to test the latter on small amounts to make sure of their reliability.