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Each week our -EV bettors do their damnedest to drain bank accounts with their NFL player prop picks. Fade or follow? That, as always, is entirely up to you. Speaking as transparency advocates, we’ll track our coolers’ progress, good or horribly bad, all season long. Below is a six-pack of picks to whet your Week […]

I wanted to write something to explain expectations of following along with golf wagering, and this could be helpful for your wagering in other sports as well. You could be great at picking winners in any sport, but if you’re terrible at managing your money, you will end up losing. Downturns are an inevitable part […]

Happy New Year’s Eve! I would just like to thank everyone for their support of FTNBets and I look forward to a successful 2021 NBA campaign. We are all grateful for your guys support on this journey, cheers.  In case you missed it, check out our Eastern Conference team previews and our Western Conference teams preview. The FTN […]

The NBA season is officially back. After a successful “restart” in Orlando, the NBA regular season starts just 71 days since it’s last season ended, the shortest offseason in pro sports history. While this season is just 72 games, don’t expect to see any less competition as the top of the Eastern Conference has improved […]

The NBA season is officially back. After a successful “restart” in Orlando, the NBA regular season starts just 71 days since it’s last season ended, the shortest offseason in pro sports history. While this season is just 72 games, don’t expect to see any less competition as the top of the Eastern Conference has improved […]

This week, I would like to see if there is any predictability in putting when breaking it down by five-foot increments. Last week, I introduced a basic breakdown showing how ball striking and short game relates to a golfer’s skill. We saw that although ball-striking made up more of the composition, the short game still played […]

The NBA season is officially back. After a successful “restart” in Orlando, the NBA regular season starts just 71 days since it’s last season ended, the shortest offseason in pro sports history. While this season is just 72 games, don’t expect to see any less competition as the top of the Eastern Conference has improved […]

The NBA season is officially back. After a successful “restart” in Orlando, the NBA regular season starts just 71 days since the last season ended, the shortest offseason in pro sports history. While this season is just 72 games, don’t expect to see any less competition as the top of the Eastern Conference has improved […]

Every week, the most talked about statistics in golf are strokes gained, and in particular, ball striking. If you’re not familiar with strokes gained, the PGA Tour describes in depth how it is calculated here. On the surface, strokes gained stats are great at telling the story of how a golfer has come upon their […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 17: Geoff Neal vs. Stephen Thompson. I’ll have a full PPV style writeup for every fight on this card.  Much like it has been for the rest of the world, 2020 has been a wild year for the UFC. The promotion has had at least one show […]

The quickest way to build your sports gambling bankroll is by taking advantage of the bonus offers, odds boosts and free bets the online books are offering. They are flush with private equity money and using it to fuel growth. If you know where to look, they are literally giving it away in some cases. […]

With the start of the NBA season fast approaching, now is a good time to start taking a look at the futures markets. Last week we discussed the best way to create an edge in the futures for NBA Champion. This week we are going to talk about gaining an edge in the Rookie of […]

Each week, I’ll be providing you with a college football betting breakdown for some of the week’s biggest games. The ones I’ll be focusing on will be meetings between ranked teams and matchups where an unranked team is getting 14 or fewer points (with a few exceptions) against somebody in the AP’s Top 25. While I […]

This is a lesson that can be used across all sports for many different reasons, but I’m going to go over why I think it’s especially important when wagering on golf outrights. I’ve written a lot recently about finding edges and what to do with those edges once you find them. Your wagering amount should […]

Each week our -EV bettors do their damnedest to drain bank accounts with their NFL player prop picks. Fade or follow? That, as always, is entirely up to you. Speaking as transparency advocates, we’ll track our coolers’ progress, good or horribly bad, all season long. Below is a six-pack of picks to whet your Week […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC 256: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno. If those names sound familiar, it’s probably because they both fought just three weeks ago. Figueiredo, the current flyweight king, will look to set a record for the quickest turnaround between title defenses in UFC history. In the co-main event of the […]

Ocean’s Eleven is one of my favorite movies. One of my favorite scenes is when Danny first tells Rusty about his idea to rob the casino(s), he recites this prepared speech.  “’Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, […]

Each week, I’ll be providing you with a college football betting breakdown for some of the week’s biggest games. The ones I’ll be focusing on will be meetings between ranked teams and matchups where an unranked team is getting 14 or fewer points (with a few exceptions) against somebody in the AP’s Top 25. While I […]

Everyone has an opinion on who will win the NBA Championship. The differences in that opinion are what makes a betting market. With the start of the NBA season fast approaching, this is a good time to discuss some strategies to use when betting into a futures market. Unlike a typical two-way wager on a […]

We have made it to the end of the road. This week's DP World Tour Championship on the European Tour is the last major tournament of the 2020 calendar year.  It’s been a strange journey for both the PGA and European tours; makeshift schedules, new courses, new sponsors, co-sanctioned events, and more. The culmination of all of […]

In last week’s betting article, I mentioned that in order to be a more profitable bettor, you want to know your expected value on wagers you’re making and then how to determine how much to bet. These steps are important to being profitable over time. You can have an edge in wagering but if you’re incorrectly staking, […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 16: Marvin Vettori vs. Jack Hermansson. This main event was thrown together fairly recently but is a high-level bout between two guys who are generally underrated at middleweight. The undercard is impressive too, with a lot of fun grappling matchups making up the other ten fights on […]

Each week, I’ll be providing you with a college football betting breakdown for some of the week’s biggest games. The ones I’ll be focusing on will be meetings between ranked teams, and matchups where an unranked team is getting 14 or fewer points (with a few exceptions) against somebody in the AP’s Top 25. While […]

If you are just starting to build a bankroll, the best way to do it is by taking advantage of the odds boost bonuses the online sportsbooks are offering. Most of these bonuses have a maximum bet amount that is usually only about $50-$100. These odds boosts are the best chance you have to tip […]

Each week, I’ll be providing you with a college football betting breakdown for some of the week’s biggest games. The ones I’ll be focusing on will be meetings between ranked teams, and matchups where an unranked team is getting 14 or fewer points (with a few exceptions) against somebody in the AP’s Top 25. While […]

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As betting popularity increases and more states legalize it, all markets continue to grow. We are especially seeing this in golf betting; props are more frequent and the amount of markets seems to grow with each major. The most attractive bet in golf is the outright winner. The huge numbers and large payouts attract everybody […]

Texas basketball has come full circle. After promising to bring his “Havoc” brand from VCU to Austin, Shaka Smart instead posted four consecutive mid-pack finishes in turnover percentage before finally crawling back into the top 60 last year. Despite recruiting from a deep and talented pool, Smart opted to scrap the full-court press in lieu […]

This week’s tournament and course preview for the PGA Tour takes us to the El Camaleon Golf Club for the Mayakoba Golf Classic. Unfortunately, we are back to a course that does not have strokes gained data, but the tour has played this course for many years, so we can look into the traditional data […]

Below you’ll find my best bets for some of this weekend’s soccer matches in the English Premier League. I target three ?key fixtures including the showcase game between ?Chelsea ?and ?Tottenham. With that said, let’s get into my top picks.? Brighton vs. Liverpool (Saturday, November 28) I went against Liverpool last week and it backfired. […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 15: Anthony Smith vs. Devin Clark. This was a card that was originally scheduled to be headlined by Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis at heavyweight, but that fight has been scrapped and we’re down to 10 fights. I’ll be writing this best-bets article weekly with extended breakdowns for […]

Each week our -EV bettors do their damnedest to drain bank accounts with their NFL player prop picks. Fade or follow? That, as always, is entirely up to you. Speaking as transparency advocates, we’ll track our coolers’ progress, good or horribly bad, all season long. Below is a six-pack of picks to whet your Week […]