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Top 5 tips to beat the odds at NBA betting

By Trent D

Thursday 16th January

Beat the odds - NBA Betting tips
Be Price Sensitive

NBA betting is a low margin outcome, as are all match up sports. If you are a frequent NBA bettor, the odds matter.

For example, Sportsbooks will normally offer the same price for both teams on the handicap points (spread) line, generally around 1.91 the pick. ('Pick' meaning NBA both teams have the same chance of winning at the line).

Yet, if you shop around on NBA odds comparison sites such as oddschecker, you will see that the bigger Sportsbooks such as bet365 and BetMGM offer 1.93 for each team.

Now 1.93 compared to 1.91 might not seem like a huge difference, but if you are betting on NBA frequently of for high volume stakes, your P&L at the end of the season will show a positive outcome if you always take the best odds.

Take the NBA bonus bet offers from sportsbooks

Free bet and bonus bet offers from bookmakers are readily available should you wish to open a new account. The sign up offers generally come with restrictions, and you don't get your stake back as cash. Standard practice is that you need to bet on a team or an outcome over the odds of 1.50. This varies across sportsbooks, but not too much.

There isn't any financial sense in place your free bets on an odds on favorite in a head to head match up, it's more prudent to place a free bet on a futures market such as NBA Championship winner at higher value odds.

Manage your NBA betting bankroll with discipline

So, what is managing your betting bankroll? It's a frequently asked question. If you are serious about NBA betting, half the battle is managing your staking plan if you want to win long term. So, decide on a bankroll that won't bankrupt you, and bet in 'units' according to the size of your fund.

At the Jump Hub we advise our tips in units (between $10 to $30 per NBA tip), that amount is notional. A $10 bet (one unit bet advice) might be equivalent to $1 to some bettors, or $1,000 to others.

The important factor in looking after your NBA staking plan is not to overstake on individual bets. If you are confident with your own choices, you will profit long term.

It's all about taking the margins, not having 'hero bets' that compromise your long term plan.

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Paying a subscription fee for your NBA betting tips? Caveat Emptor

'Let the buyer beware'. For all sports and horse racing websites you will see offers for 'guaranteed profits if you subscribe', now some of these are genuine sophisticated NBA picks. But not all are. Now you could compare some tipping sites to a smaller Ponzi operation.

It's not uncommon for certain tipping sites to split their client database in half and tip both teams equally to win a game, that way, half the subscribers will end up happy and carry on paying.

We offer free tips at The Jump Hub without charging a fee, and we record every single tip with transparency, win or lose. Ultimately though, if you study hard and be diligent, and take the best odds, your judgement is no worse than any NBA picks tipster

Take a look at player prop NBA odds

There are three main NBA betting markets. Head to Head, points spread, points total. This is where the bookmakers keep the majority of 'hold' (Amount bet in $ stakes). If you delve deeper into the NBA betting odds for each game, you will see markets for 'player props'.

Player props are betting odds for how an individual player will perform in a game, irrespective of whether the team wins or not. You can bet on points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, triple doubles.

Almost anything. Now the bookmakers don't like taking bets on props as their main focus is on the game results, so their attention is elsewhere, which gives NBA bettors an advantage if you keep up to date with injury news especially. So, look deeper into the odds and find an angle, sometimes the bookmakers are asleep to the props trading. 

Our Player Props Tips profit margin is currently more than twice as good as our game tips profit, helps to illustrate how you can use Player Props bets to your significant advantage.

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