Sports betting in the US

Online sports betting is a religion in the USA. From the NBA to the Superbowl and everything in between, we just love betting on sports. It wasn’t that long ago when US bettors couldn’t bet online internationally. The US regulation came in 2006, resulting in hundreds of thousands of players being kicked out of international betting sites. More than 40% of the global online sports betting market went up in smoke as the US geared up for new online sports betting laws.

It took a bit of time, but sports betting on the web is livelier than ever in the US. While it was regulated back in 2006, the market is now opening up. More and more states are joining in the legalization of online sports betting every year, so now is the perfect time to start using our value betting and sure betting services.

RebelBetting specializes in value and sure betting – two niches in online sports betting that every bettor should know about. With our services you can literally beat the bookies and if you don’t make a profit during the first month we have a Profit Guarantee program. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Let’s take a deep dive into our services and see why they’re worth a try.

Sports betting is more than just picking a winning side. You can’t just head to a random sportsbook and choose a winner without taking a look at the odds. Different bookies mean different odds, and there’s almost always no value to be found. The sportsbooks always win in the long run.

That’s where RebelBetting comes in. By using our products, you will use the sportsbooks’ own odds against them. You will be placing bets where you have the upper hand.

Wondering what value betting is? In the simplest terms, it’s a way of beating the bookies at their own game by taking advantage of their own, wrongly priced, odds.

When value betting, you will place bets with a larger chance of winning than the odds imply. This gives you an edge over the sportsbook.

You can always screen different events at different bookmakers manually to discover the prices “out of line”. This approach works, however it tends to be incredibly time consuming. The issue lies within the fact that the betting markets consist of a huge number of selections. Only on one event there are usually more than a hundred things to bet on. And there are thousands of events any given day. Nobody would be able to screen that many markets manually.

Luckily, RebelBetting automates the screening for you. If you subscribe to RebelBetting you will have the value bets and sure bets automatically screened and delivered to you, so that the profitable bet is just a few clicks away from you. 

You will also receive a suggestion for the best available hedging bet, should you prefer to offset your risk. In this way you will be able to access a large number of profitable betting opportunities every day. Having enough selections to bet on regularly is necessary in order to be able to benefit from the strategy in the long run and RebelBetting offers you just that.

Imagine a perfect sports betting world where you cover all the outcomes of a match and make a nice profit regardless of the winner. That’s called sure betting and is RebelBetting’s oldest service, est 2008. This particular niche of sports betting system offers steady profit with little to no risk involved. We can proudly say that we’ve mastered sure betting, and by subscribing, you can master it too.

Here’s a brief recap of what has happened in the area of sports betting in the US lately.

On May 14, 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act created in 1992. It was clear professional sports in the US would never be the same again – not only for the initiating state of New Jersey but for the United States as a whole. 

Gambling in the USA has been placed under a very restrictive regime, with only a handful of states having been granted an exception for legal sports gambling, within certain limits. The state of New Jersey wasn’t one of them, even though its government as well as its citizens (evident from a referendum run on the issue) were fully aware of the economic benefits legal sports betting can bring to their state. 

A legal challenge of the federal ban on sports betting was the logical course of action. The latter was crowned with success on May 14, 2018, dramatically changing the legal framework for sports betting in the United States for years to come. From then on sports betting has been allowed on the federal level, leaving it to the individual states to decide their stance on the issue.

The significance of this development can hardly be overstated. The USA represents the largest unified sports betting market in the world. One which was for a long time suppressed by the ban of 1992. A prohibition was also bound to lead to some illegal action. 

Circumventing the ban, some offshore bookmakers have offered sports betting services to US bettors. Several of those offshore bookies have made a name for themselves during this period and have grown as some of the sharpest books in the business. However, from the point of view of the individual player, the hurdle of circumventing the legal barrier was too large for most, therefore betting remained restricted to only a small number of dedicated sports bettors.

This was all about to change. After the ban was lifted, a number of states rushed to introduce new legislation legalizing sports betting, in an effort to establish themselves as a leader in the new market and attract gambling business from other states. The leading DFS (daily fantasy sports, a controversial activity, which was operating already before the ban was lifted on the ground of it being a game of skill) operators FanDuel and DraftKings were in a hurry to expand their offering with sports betting odds in order to benefit from their already established position in the market. 

European operators, aiming to grab a portion of the massive market, are seeking licenses across various states to leverage their existing offerings. The market was truly booming and offering exciting opportunities for industry players around the globe. 

More importantly, this development opened a realm of opportunity for the sports bettors themselves. Indeed, with the widespread legalization of sports betting across the USA, the profitable betting strategies, which have been tried and tested on sports betting markets around the world, could finally be applied on a wide scale here as well. It is fair to say that making money online with sports betting in the USA has never been easier.

Still, to get there, a few questions need answers.

It didn’t last long after legalization in the USA took place, for various sports betting touts to appear and begin aggressively promoting all sorts of “winning” strategies, “guaranteed” to make you money on the sports betting market. These usually came along with a generous price tag and were all too often everything else but winning. 

Furthermore, the tout promoting the service usually turned out to be absolutely clueless about the sports and events he is sharing picks from. The only thing these snake oil salesmen have been experts in, was pushing their useless and expensive product to the novice and unassuming US sports better, who for the lack of experience in the newly opened market was often not quick enough to recognize the lack of use of what has been offered to him.

Of course that is a generalization and there are some decent services out there – although it remains the case that the vast majority do not offer anything of value. There are still a number of hurdles to overcome before you can turn any profit from a good sports betting pick.  The more and bigger the customers, and the smaller the market, the worse the average odds you are going to get.

You sit on the losses in case the picks have a losing run, whereas the tout cashes in a fixed fee each month. Being on the receiving side of such a deal is often a traumatizing experience. Those of us who have burned our hands with such services in the past know all too well that profitable sports betting is not as easy as it sounds. Luckily RebelBetting will ease the process of making money off of sports. In fact, it is the easiest way to make money on sports.

If a bettor wants to take on a bookmaker in order to turn a profit, he must be well prepared. Bookmakers have a lot of experience with odds calculation, not to mention they take a large volume of wagers on both sides of an event. Therefore, a bookmaker has a very good idea about what the market thinks the likely outcome of an event will be. The bigger the event, the more accurate the offered prices. 

The spread of an NFL game or the total in an NBA match are markets that attract millions of USD in bets from all across the world. These are one of the largest markets out there. The market forces shape those markets perfectly and lead to the offered odds for such markets being incredibly precise and hard to beat. That is – unless you are a smart RebelBetting user.

As bettors, we must accept that it is next to impossible, for us personally or for any tout, to calculate odds better than the market. 99% of the time, this won’t work. What is left for a bettor looking to make a profit in a bookie? Well, how about we pit the bookmaker against this very same market? Because that is exactly what RebelBetting does. 

Enter the value betting and sure betting strategies. Once we accept that the market is the perfect tool for determining the fair price of anything, including the odds of a sports betting event, we can look more closely at the different players and how they compare to the said market. 

Discovering the ones that deviate from the market price will be the easiest way for us to discover value and make money with sports betting. This is not unlike any other market. If you are out to buy a used car, you have set your sight on a certain model and mileage and figure out there is one dealership in town, which offers this car in good condition 20% cheaper than anyone else, provided there is nothing hidden from the eye, you will know this car is a bargain. 

The same applies to sports betting. Looking for such bargains on a regular basis, you can discover a large number of profitable bets and make money in the long run.

Once you discover such a bet (more on how to do that later) you have the option to offset the risk of the bet going the wrong way in this very same market you used as a benchmark for discovering the value. If you decide to do that, you have entered a sure bet – you have covered both sides of an event for a certain profit.

If you prefer not to offset your exposure and to run the risk of losing the bet – which increases your expected profit – you are said to have entered a value bet. Both strategies are long term profitable and both will make you money in the long run.

A prerequisite is that the state you find yourself in allows sports betting. Each state is diverse and has its own set of regulations. For example, some would allow online sports betting, while others would allow sports betting in and of itself, but only in a physical location and not online. Yet others would still prohibit it completely. How does it work in your state?

We have an overview of the current legal status of sports betting per state. We are not qualified to give legal advice, and the status of single states may change at any time, but the above overview can be used for an initial estimate. Familiarize yourself with the regulations in your state before executing the strategy.

Is the strategy viable in states where no online betting is allowed? Online betting allows you to execute the strategy very fast, with only a few clicks. If sports betting is only allowed in physical shops in your state you can’t do that. 

To value bet or sure bet in the long run, you need a diverse selection of sports betting operators in your state and a favorable legal environment. We do believe that both of those conditions will be met in the coming years. Sports betting was only legalized less than 5 years ago, so it is unlikely regulation will take a turn for the worse at the federal level. 

Furthermore, in some states, the legislative process is slower than in others, so states that currently disallow sports betting may legalize it shortly. The trend is certainly towards legalization and there is competition between states since no state wants to lose gambling tax revenue to their neighbors by forcing its citizens to go play somewhere else.

When it comes to the variety of operators, it is again a very dynamic landscape with different providers per state and a lot of new players, who are trying to gain share via generous promotions. The trend here is also upwards and it wouldn’t be surprising if the number of betting operators increases soon.

The recent legalization of sports betting in the United States opened a realm of opportunities for both sports betting operators and individual bettors. Beating the bookie is difficult if you try to make or buy a prediction for an event, it needs to be more accurate than the one of the betting market. It is much easier to use the market itself as a benchmark to detect mispriced odds offerings. 

In this way, you can deploy a classic value betting or sure betting strategy. Both strategies are wonderfully supported by the RebelBetting tool, at a very reasonable price. Furthermore, those strategies will reliably deliver betting profits to you over long periods. RebelBetting is so confident in the viability of those strategies, that we offer a Profit Guarantee. 

If you don’t make a profit with our tool, you get another month for free! Again and again, until you’re in profit. There is nothing to lose and much to gain. Try RebelBetting today and join the winners from the sports betting expansion in the US!