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Exactly, pretty easy to see from the size bets taken on soccer, apart from the fact, as you said, that Asians bet on it, and there are just 1 or 2 of those guys on the planet
Reno has obviously hit some bad tequila
Real football of course would be games where players can use both their hands and feet to move the ball, and all are allowed to catch it - so this would be Gaelic football, or Australian Rules (the oldest codified football code), or maybe even rugby, of which American football is a highly structured derivation.
Personally, I have not found a code of football I do not enjoy, although never played soccer, not enough smashing of people going on in it and too much running for my liking
Apart from the fact that nya nya this sport is better than this one arguments are childish, there is a fairly pertinent fact for the punter.
American football - Pro - 200 odd games a year, college that you can bet on, what, 3 times that?
Australian football - falling off a log, but again only around a couple of hundred games.
Rugby League - be similar numbers to college football.
Rugby union - again around the same scale - Super 12s the big pro league, but only 70 odd games, plus some internationals and what you can bet on in the UK.
Let's take a look at European Soccer.
This is NOT counting minor leagues such as the Italian third, or Dutch 2nd that you could bet on if you are based somewhere near there or have contacts there. Also things like the English Conference, etc., etc.
A rough estimate of close to 40 leagues currently available for betting, which will be close to 11 THOUSAND games. As far as betting options go and props, you have all the HT/FT, correct score, blah blah blah for a lot of these, or all of these, as well.
Then people have started offering South American - which while being a tad more bent, will again, in half a dozen leagues, be another couple of thousand opportunities.
Adding in the European stuff you could get access to if you really want to, another few thousand games.
Chances of finding some good numbers in there start to look pretty good, don't they?
The American sports have a lot of games, but nowhere near this number - and nowhere near the variety available in the lines due to a world market, not just a regionally influenced Vegas one. However, the multitude of games here is obviously worth looking at too, 1000 hockey, basketball, couple of thousand baseball - several hundred football games maybe not so much so, and quite a few college basketball games - what is the rough number of these available for wagering in a given year? To put it in biased childish terms, I have never had any real interest in watching slow children play sport, which is what most of them are, without some vested interest like knowing someone, or being local to it. Very boring indeed, but just another childish opinion.
If baseball alone makes enough cash to be filthy rich and run your own string of Thais in your hedonistic pleasure palace, such as in Reno's case, then you don't need to worry about anything else. Most people aren't at this level, or even winning
Exactly, pretty easy to see from the size bets taken on soccer, apart from the fact, as you said, that Asians bet on it, and there are just 1 or 2 of those guys on the planet
Reno has obviously hit some bad tequila
Real football of course would be games where players can use both their hands and feet to move the ball, and all are allowed to catch it - so this would be Gaelic football, or Australian Rules (the oldest codified football code), or maybe even rugby, of which American football is a highly structured derivation.
Personally, I have not found a code of football I do not enjoy, although never played soccer, not enough smashing of people going on in it and too much running for my liking
Apart from the fact that nya nya this sport is better than this one arguments are childish, there is a fairly pertinent fact for the punter.
American football - Pro - 200 odd games a year, college that you can bet on, what, 3 times that?
Australian football - falling off a log, but again only around a couple of hundred games.
Rugby League - be similar numbers to college football.
Rugby union - again around the same scale - Super 12s the big pro league, but only 70 odd games, plus some internationals and what you can bet on in the UK.
Let's take a look at European Soccer.
This is NOT counting minor leagues such as the Italian third, or Dutch 2nd that you could bet on if you are based somewhere near there or have contacts there. Also things like the English Conference, etc., etc.
A rough estimate of close to 40 leagues currently available for betting, which will be close to 11 THOUSAND games. As far as betting options go and props, you have all the HT/FT, correct score, blah blah blah for a lot of these, or all of these, as well.
Then people have started offering South American - which while being a tad more bent, will again, in half a dozen leagues, be another couple of thousand opportunities.
Adding in the European stuff you could get access to if you really want to, another few thousand games.
Chances of finding some good numbers in there start to look pretty good, don't they?
The American sports have a lot of games, but nowhere near this number - and nowhere near the variety available in the lines due to a world market, not just a regionally influenced Vegas one. However, the multitude of games here is obviously worth looking at too, 1000 hockey, basketball, couple of thousand baseball - several hundred football games maybe not so much so, and quite a few college basketball games - what is the rough number of these available for wagering in a given year? To put it in biased childish terms, I have never had any real interest in watching slow children play sport, which is what most of them are, without some vested interest like knowing someone, or being local to it. Very boring indeed, but just another childish opinion.
If baseball alone makes enough cash to be filthy rich and run your own string of Thais in your hedonistic pleasure palace, such as in Reno's case, then you don't need to worry about anything else. Most people aren't at this level, or even winning