Soccer matches are priced up by all of the big bookmakers and some nice guaranteed profitable bets are available if you are aware when and where to look. Sports bookmakers never miss a trick when thinking up new ways to extract your money from you and there are various inventive bets on offer.

Soccer can in lots of ways be about timing. The earlier the cost appears the better likely there will be a sure-bet or arbitrage opportunity (arb).

Bookmakers clearly do a great deal of research as soccer has now become a big earner for them. They need to do this as they are just too aware that the serious punters are becoming much shrewder inside this market and also will exploit any snippets of news that may give them an edge. They advertise heavily within the tabloids.

Whereas in certain minor trusted football sports there may be only one odds compiler working for the bookmaker soccer is too lucrative for this any many odds compilers will continue to work feverishly setting prices for the big bookmakers. Any European bookmaker worth its salt shall offer odds on soccer, its a high revenue turnover sport.

Such is their turnover on the ever increasing soccer betting market that Ladbrokes and other such big bookmakers are ready to take a ‘big’ bet on the outcome of a match. This really is clearly very good news for the arb maker. This means the maximum bets they are going to accept on a bet are a lot higher.

There are plenty of types of soccer bets. Firstly there is the match winner. This really is split into 3 results, win, lose or draw. Then you can find the very first goal scorer and the precise match score. The less obvious bets are half-time, full time results, total corners, total throw-ins, total numbers of yellow and red cards and so on. In fact anything where odds may be set to shall offer a betting opportunity.

So which are the top soccer bets to look for? Firstly forget about predicting the match score, you can find too many outcomes. The very first goal scorer is a waste of time too. Both these types of bets are heavily advertised but are for mug punters only, the odds consistently being offered are poor, the bookmakers regularly taking over 15% profit on the book. These bets have far too many possible outcomes. We are searching for bets with ideally 2 or 3 possible outcomes.

Other sorts of bet can throw up the odd arb but the main source of arbs is on the match result over 90 minutes. This really is where we should concentrate most of our efforts. Clearly this falls into 3 results, win, lose or draw.