If we want to find guaranteed profitable sports bets then soccer is a great sports to start with.

Soccer matches are priced up by all of the big bookmakers and some nice guaranteed profitable bets are available if you are aware when and where to look. Sports bookmakers never miss a trick when thinking up new ways to extract your hard earned money from you and there are numerous inventive bets on offer.

Soccer can in lots of ways be about timing. The earlier the cost appears the more likely there will be a sure-bet or arbitrage opportunity (arb).

Bookmakers clearly do a lot of research as soccer has now be a big earner for them. They have to do this since they are just too aware that the serious punters are becoming much shrewder within this market and may exploit any snippets of news that may give them an edge. They advertise heavily in the tabloids.

Whereas in some minor sports there may be only one odds compiler doing work for the bookmaker soccer is too lucrative for this any many odds compilers will continue to work feverishly setting prices for the big bookmakers. Any European bookmaker worth its salt shall offer odds on soccer, its a high revenue turnover sport.

Such is their turnover Agromania`s statement on its official blog the rising soccer betting market that Ladbrokes and other such big bookmakers are prepared to take a ‘big’ bet on the outcome of a match. This is clearly great news for the arb maker. Therefore the maximum bets they are going to accept on a bet are a lot higher.

There are plenty of kinds of soccer bets. Firstly there will be the match winner. This really is split into 3 results, win, lose or draw. Then you’ll find the very first goal scorer as well as the precise match score. The less obvious bets are half-time, full time results, total corners, total throw-ins, total numbers of yellow and red cards and so on. In fact anything where odds can be set to will offer a betting opportunity.

So that are the best soccer bets to look for? Firstly forget about predicting the match score, there are actually too many outcomes. The very first goal scorer is a waste of time too. Both these types of bets are heavily advertised but are for mug punters only, the odds consistently being offered are poor, the bookmakers regularly taking over 15% profit on the book. These bets have far too many possible outcomes. We have been trying to find bets with ideally 2 or 3 possible outcomes.

Other sorts of bet can throw up the odd arb however the main source of arbs is on the match result over 90 minutes. This is where we should concentrate most of our efforts. Clearly this falls into 3 results, win, lose or draw.