The Sports Bookie Blog

In-Play Betting: Next best thing to playing the game!

February 17th, 2007

Improvements in televised and web-cast game coverage has meant that bookmakers can offer new styles of online betting. In-play betting, more than any other addition in recent years, has added a whole new dimension for punters.

In-play betting, also known as in-running or live betting involves placing bets as an event progresses. It can be exciting and fast-moving and if you can pick the way a game is swinging, or realise the significance of a substitution or sending off, then you may make a substantial profit.

The best bookmakers (and betting exchanges) now give you the opportunity to bet throughout the event – it’s really dynamic and as the action hots up so does the in-play betting, with the odds moving to reflect the changing circumstances of the game.

For example in a football match if a team is leading at 2-0 at half time, you may be offered generous odds that there will less than 2.5 goals scored or if a team is losing by 2 goals going into the final 20 minutes you may get offered as much as 10-1 odds that they won’t manage a draw.

There are many betting markets offered in-running which cover far more than the result of the match. Punters can also wager on the next goal to be scored, the next side to receive a booking, the number of corners in the game and lots more.

There is a wide range of bet options available in-running, so the smart punter can sometimes find themselves in a profitable situation where you can wager on a market after kickoff and lock in a guaranteed profit!

Based on our own betting experierences and taking in comments from a large number of punter forums our shortlist of best places to place in-running bets is:

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