What is Live Betting?

Absolutely all bookmakers offer for clients the opportunity to make live betting. In this article, we will say about the differences of this type of bet, about its advantages and disadvantages.

As you can guess from its name, this type of stakes is accepted directly in time of sport event. They are inactive before the beginning of the game. If the ordinary lines are drawn up for all more or less popular matches and races which are hundreds or even thousands the list of live games is rather poor. As a rule, it consists from no more than 10 competitions which are being played right in that moment. More often, these are a football matches due to their popularity among the fans.

If the ordinary line is made in advance and coefficients in most cases is just slightly corrected due to the client’s interests (though, sometimes, the rather big changes are made) live betting line can be changed in any time (and very considerably) during the match.

Advantages of live stakes

Lots of clients prefer live betting just because it’s coefficients are more profitable for them. It is a well-known fact that bookmakers always overestimate the probability of the favorite’s win. Within the game, especially in the beginning, more balanced coefficients are presented and they are more interesting for fans. There are lots of people who teleologically wait while the live stakes start to be taken.

First of all, live competitions are like an extra passion. The game is playing in the certain moment and you can see it in the air. You can see the scores, player’s removals or replacements, their injuries. It becomes especially interesting to watch this broadcasting but there are some risks too.

Main risks

For lots of clients it becomes difficult to analyze the game. As a result, they make a rash live betting on the final results which are impossible if to study them in the view of logical match progress. So, this type of bet is very profitable for bookie because the quantity of people who make mistakes in their forecasts are larger than in the ordinary one.

Our advice to new players: don’t fond of live matches too much. Certainly, it is very interesting but it has too big risks. There is an opinion that professional players fond of live events seldom.