Betting the Moneyline using NBA Basketball Picks

August 26, 2008 by admin
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Have you ever wondered how you can make NBA basketball picks work for you? Maybe you should consider betting the moneyline. Before you can do that, you need to know what a moneyline is and how you can use it for your benefit.

Simply put, when you bet the moneyline, you bet on the team that you think will win the game. It is that easy. You do not have to worry about point spreads or handicapping. So, you are probably thinking that this is too easy. Well, you are right. There is a catch and it involves the return you get from your bet…

When a sportsbook posts a moneyline, they have a certain price that they place on each team based on current NBA basketball picks. Usually the underdog will give you the biggest return on your bet and the favorite to win will normally bring less than the actual amount bet. In other words, the more certain it is that a team will win, the less money there is to make on betting on that team.

The next thing you must know is how to read the moneyline. The moneyline will work with numbers larger than 100. They will also be positive numbers or negative numbers. The positive numbers – like a +120 – indicate the team that is the underdog. The negative number is the team that is the favorite to win. Think of the 100 as a percent. If you bet $100 on the favorite and the moneyline on the favorite was -120, then you would only get $80 return on your bet. If, however, you bet on the underdog and the moneyline was +180, then you would receive $180 back on your bet.

The key here is to watch the NBA basketball picks and know who the favorites and the underdogs are, then watch the teams performance and player injuries to see if you have an opportunity to capitalize on the game play of the underdog team. If you are shrewd with your money and can see that one thing in a team that the people putting out the NBA basketball picks do not, then you can really make some good money betting the moneyline.

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