Super Bowl Betting: Strategy Overview For Super Bowl Success

Added on Feb 04, 2011 by Jack Thurman in

Super Bowl

In this article I’m going to preview the Superbowl. Not the relative strength and weaknesses of the Packers and Steelers, but the Superbowl as a wagering proposition. It’s common knowledge that no single sporting event attracts as much wagering interest as the Superbowl. Last year, Nevada sportsbooks took nearly $90 million dollars worth of action on the event. Since the amount of money wagered in Nevada is only 1% to 3% so of the total amount bet on the event, you can do the math.

It’s also an opportunity for professional sports touts to make a killing. Just check out the USA TODAY sports sections on the Friday before the game. You’ll see countless tout services emphatically suggesting that they have “inside information that will absolutely determine the outcome of the game” and so forth. If you’ve been betting on sports for more than a week, you know they’re full of hot air. Still, there’s enough “clueless noobs” out there to make such claims very profitable for the bottom feeding touts.

Here’s the reality of the Superbowl: For serious sports bettors, the Superbowl is just another game and you should treat it as such. Unfortunately, my view is decidedly a minority position. Too many sports bettors bet a lot more than they should on the Superbowl. I’m not saying this as a moralist, but as a professional sports bettor. Despite all of the hype surrounding the Superbowl and betting the game, for those of us who do this seriously it’s just another wagering opportunity.

A couple of years ago, I was told by employees of several large offshore books some specifics of Superbowl wagering that I found astounding. They indicated that around 60 or 70% of their customer’s deposits were in play on Superbowl Sunday. In other words, the average client had a sizable majority of their bankroll in play on the Superbowl.

One thing I learned quickly when I began my career as a professional sports bettor was that there was no premium to winning money on the NFL in general or the Superbowl in particular. When I went to the grocery store, a hundred bucks was a hundred bucks—it didn’t matter if I had won it on the Superbowl or on NHL totals. The simplest advice I can give you is that the Superbowl is just another game and you should treat it as such. On February 8—the day after the Superbowl–the sun will come up and there will be a couple dozen basketball and hockey games on the board. The sports gambling world will be back to its usual rhythm and the last thing you want is to be “tapped out” because you blew your bankroll on the Superbowl.

Now, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t bet the Superbowl side or total or some of the countless prop bets offered. It’s just very important to do it the right way. You have to approach it with the same statistical and analytical rigor that you would any other sporting proposition and not get caught up in the hype surrounding the game. And your friends at Sports Betting World are going to help you do it the right way. From now until kickoff time we’ll cover Super Bowl betting from every possible angle. We’ll give you the winning analysis on the side, total and countless prop bets. We’ll give you money management strategies, breaking injury news and last minute team updates. You’ll get the best Super Bowl betting information available anywhere and it won’t cost you a cent.