There are different markets that can bring profit to a punter in sports betting. They are straight wins, double chance, over and under goals and so on. However, there is a particular market that has been underrated by most punters; this market is the handicap market.

What is Handicap Betting?

First, what is handicap betting? Handicap betting can be said to be an alternative route to stake on certain games (source). For example, if an international 200m sprinter lined up against a neophyte athlete off the street, you would expect the international sprinter to win without breaking any sweat.

This would be boring to stake on, and you would not get interesting odds. How about if you gave the average guy a 40m head start? That would make the game outcome very difficult to predict. Then, it would be more interesting to stake on.

This is what handicap betting means and how it works. You are just giving one eventuality an edge, and the other outcome a disadvantage to make something you are staking on more even.

Kinds of handicap betting available

There are three types of handicap bets th

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