I often say that the single sharpest thing you can do as a sports bettor is to shop lines. Get the best price. Hopefully, most of the audience that reads this article already knows this. That’s why they find value in Unabated. For years, I’ve hoped more people would realize this and begin their… Continue reading Why I’m Finally Starting to Believe in Evolution

You see it flicker up on an odds screen. There’s a plus-EV price on a game, but it’s only available at an offshore out. You’ve been curious about betting offshore, but always held back because sports betting with crypto was never as easy as linking your bank account to the book and letting a… Continue reading A Step-By-Step Guide to Sports Betting With Crypto

March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month. The entire topic is very nuanced, and as usual when the discussion spills into public discourse, it’s easy for nuance to get lost. There have been voices questioning how much of an actual problem that problem gambling is. Some are directing their ire at politicians. Others at operators. The… Continue reading The Last Word on Problem Gambling and Sports Betting

The lead up to the big game on Feb. 9 can seem like an eternity. However, there are a lot of key moments you won’t want to miss between now and then. It may appear to be a full two weeks between games, but much of the value can be found at key points… Continue reading When To Bet — Your Super Bowl Betting Timeline

Editor’s Note: This story was written by Unabated user Bob R. about his experience last year spending two weeks doing Super Bowl prop betting, working alongside his betting partners in different parts of the country.   It’s minutes before the Eagles and Chiefs are about to play in Super Bowl LVII and I’m buried… Continue reading 2,500 Miles Of Super Bowl Prop Betting

To an aspiring sharp sports bettor there’s nothing sweeter than winning money from the big regulated sportsbooks that dominate this industry. Likewise, there’s a sour taste left in their mouth when they find they’ve been cut down to $3.65 wager limits.  If you’re fortunate enough to be in a state with plenty of regulated… Continue reading Alternative Betting Options Beyond Regulated Sportsbooks

Introduction by Jack Andrews: Finding your own unique path is how you can achieve your goals in sports betting. Sometimes it can be very useful to read about another bettor’s journey to help shape your own. I was impressed by the journey Tomas outlined on his Twitter account. I’ve asked him to expand on… Continue reading NBA Betting: Finding Your Path To Profitability

The 2024 NFL season is fast approaching. Leveraging breaking news and injury updates is a secret weapon that sharp bettors have used for years. X (or, yes, we still call it Twitter) has revolutionized the dissemination of this news. The trick is to find the signal in all the noise. We’ve compiled this list… Continue reading Best NFL X/Twitter Accounts for News and Rumors

The lifespan of an edge is fragile, like holding an Under 8.5 ticket in a 6-2 game that Kyle Finnegan is trying to close out. Some of them can be measured in just months. Some, maybe mere days. But sometimes you get hold of one that can carry you for years before the world… Continue reading Angle Autopsies: The Ups And Downs Of Betting Barometric Pressure

The fantasy and the reality of being a professional gambler are two divergent things. Anyone who has ever gambled and won any small amount of money has immediately had the vision of being able to do it as a source of income. Some especially fool-hearted folks, such as myself, have even gone so far as… Continue reading How To Be A Professional Gambler – Mentality

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”  – Richard Feynman   Clear, dispassionate thinking and the analysis that flows from it are crucial to all speculative endeavors. It is essential that we embrace ambiguity and sit comfortably with it in order to make… Continue reading To Find Edge, Question Certainty

Arbitrage betting is a betting strategy that involves taking advantage of differences in odds among different bookmakers to make a profit regardless of the outcome of an event. The idea behind arbitrage betting is to place bets on all multiple outcomes of an event at different bookmakers, in such a way that the combined payouts… Continue reading Arbitrage Betting Guide: Risk Free Riches Or A Mirage?

Professional gamblers live by two letters: EV. The goal of any aspiring professional is to maximize your expected value. Focusing solely on wagers which have positive expected value should produce profits that converge to meet those expectations. A disciplined bettor thinks in terms of EV and trusts the actual value isn’t far behind. However,… Continue reading When Maximizing EV Don’t Be Fooled By PV

In a recent poll, we asked our users what sports betting was to them. 54.4 percent replied that sports betting is a side hustle. In other words, they have other things in their life that probably take precedence over sports betting. Job commitments, family responsibilities, or maybe they’re just not that into the sports… Continue reading Sports Betting As A Side Hustle: Winning In An Hour A Day

Parlay cards were printed.  That seems obvious. “Card” is right there in the name. But when you’ve spent the last few years in the fast-twitch world of online sports betting, stop and think about what it means to have lines set in ink and paper. Might as well be chisel and stone. Now think… Continue reading Angle Autopsies: Parlay Cards

When working with regular gambling partners, each person often assumes unofficial non-gambling roles that fit with their character. One person might be in charge of travel – booking flights and hotels. Another might take the lead in accounting – confirming the numbers are correct at the end of each day. And if you’re me,… Continue reading When To Fight For Every Dollar, And When To Walk Away

Sportsbooks look to identify actions and patterns to identify sharp bettors, which are defined as the skilled sports bettors that win money over the long term. In poker, a mannerism that allows your opponent to gain knowledge of your hand’s strength is called a Tell. These sharp sports bettors are also susceptible to having betting tells… Continue reading Eliminate These Five Sharp Betting Tells From Your Game

Whether I’m talking to other parents, neighbors, or the blonde woman with the poodle at the dog park who seeks me out to discuss local news, I don’t ask people what they do for a living. I don’t want to face the question myself. If jobs come up and I admit that I gamble… Continue reading Card Counting Vs. Sports Betting

Finding a good betting partner is a lot like finding a good match on a dating app. I don’t actually know if that’s true but last night someone unmatched me on a dating app mid-conversation. I didn’t see it coming. It also just so happens I promised to deliver an article for Unabated. Using… Continue reading Using Dating Apps – Finding Betting Partners

Everyone I’ve ever known in gambling has a leak. A flaw in their game.  Sometimes a betting leak can be annoying. Sometimes a betting leak can be paralyzing. I’ve yet to meet the flawless person who plays like a perfect, optimal robot. There’s always something somewhere that can be improved upon. I invite you… Continue reading Plugging Your Betting Leaks

Sports betting and poker are games of incomplete information. The skills required in each often rely on using the data that is available to predict future outcomes. Players best able to analyze past performance, and past conditions, are the ones most likely to succeed. But limited access to information is an obvious deterrent to… Continue reading Poker’s Past Hints At Future Of Sports Betting Training

I don’t spend a lot of time writing and speaking about sports betting bankroll management. The reason is simple: it shouldn’t require much brain power. Bankroll management isn’t some secret alchemy to turn a lousy sports bettor into a golden child. In fact, it’s fairly straightforward. Many bettors make some simple mistakes with their bet… Continue reading Sports Betting Bankroll Management: Five Misconceptions

The promise of easy money is what lures many to sports betting. What easier way to make money than to buy sports picks from Vegas Dave or Fezzik or any of the other services promising to pave your way down Easy Street? For new bettors, paying for handicapping advice seems like a quick shortcut. However,… Continue reading Is There Ever a Good Reason To Buy Sports Picks?

Ohio sports betting falls into place on Jan. 1 as the Buckeye State joins the growing list of states with legalized online sports betting. Whether you reside in the state or not, I want to help you attack Ohio sports betting apps and sportsbooks on Day 1. If you’re sharp, new at hustling sportsbook promotions… Continue reading Buckeye Bonus Hunting: Preparing for Ohio Sports Betting

As a professional gambler, an undeniable and less-than-favorite pastime of mine is having anxiety over my options, or lack thereof.  If I can’t reinvent (or recycle) the wheel every year or so, I can’t continue to make a living. Just like winning poker is about adapting, so is winning at gambling in general. If you’re… Continue reading How I Use Unabated — Gina Fiore, @rxgamble

Recreational sportsbooks love to lure customers with the promise of full refunds on losing wagers. In fact, so-called “Risk-Free Bet” promotions are now the common first bet sign-up bonus among most books, replacing the once-popular deposit match and free-bet offers. The problem is the term “Risk-Free” is actually a bit of a misnomer, as bettors… Continue reading Risk-Free Bets Can Actually Be Quite Risky, And Quite Profitable

Everyone has that movie they simply can’t turn off when they come across it on television. Mine is the 2001 version of Oceans 11. On the surface the movie is a classic heist film about a group of swindlers who come together to pull off a grand theft in Las Vegas. However, to me, it… Continue reading Building Your Oceans 11 Inspired Sports Betting Group

Every summer, I begin the arduous process of updating my college football and NFL models to prepare for the upcoming seasons. Invariably, I have to go through a bunch of code I’ve written years ago and try to remember what the hell I was doing. It would all be so much easier if I had… Continue reading Take Note! Comments Should Be Part Of Your Handicapping Process

Introduction by Captain Jack If you’re active on Twitter, you may have recently seen a tweet thread from our guest contributor who goes by the name, Telemachus. He outlined how he discovered a weakness in the way a sportsbook graded player prop wagers that enabled him to have a large advantage over the house. He… Continue reading Real Life Betting Angle: Turning The Tables On Caesars

As you probably know by now, a gambling controversy was born ten minutes before the tip-off of the Cleveland/Golden State NBA game on Sunday, January 9th. That is precisely when the Golden State Warriors Public Relationstweeted: “Draymond Green will be on the court for the opening tip-off to honor Klay Thompson but will not participate… Continue reading Knowing The Limits Of Your Advantage: Both Bettors And Bookmakers

Whether you are a professional sports bettor or you are just aspiring to be one, your method of finding angles is a never ending pursuit. Oddly, the best advice I ever picked up on finding angles came from renowned video poker expert, Bob Dancer. In his book “Million Dollar Video Poker,” Bob talks about a… Continue reading Being A Professional Sports Bettor And Using Grade School Education

How much are you worth? No, not your net worth. How much are you worth to a sportsbook that wants to BUY your loyalty? Are you worth $50? $100? $500? More? Hopefully you have a high valuation for yourself, because most sportsbooks in states new to regulated sports betting have put a price on what… Continue reading How Much Are You Worth? Sportsbooks Want To Know

Price discovery is a big part of any efficient market. The price is hammered into place by both buyers and sellers transacting with each other. This is true in sports betting as well. However, in sports betting, like in many other forms of commodity or futures trading, the operators exist on a spectrum of sharpness.… Continue reading Who Sets The Betting Line? The Market Makers