We recommend looking at the long-term betting trends. You'll be able to see who has won the most money with their sports picks over time. While most services or handicappers have one person making the picks for every sport, Doc's Sports has one person for each individual sport, thus allowing them to focus 100 percent on just one task. One of the first things you need to do is decide which model you plan to use to sell picks. The three main models are: 1. Subscription– In the subscription model, your buyers pay a set fee, usually on a weekly or monthly basis, and receive a set number of picks each term. This is a good model for ongoing income, because once you get someone signed up, you just have to keep them happy to keep the money flowing.

1. Spending a little time and effort on sports betting will make you far more profitable than purchasing picks will. Method #2: Follow free picks on the internet. Here at TheSportsGeek.com, we run a picks blog, where you can get the same caliber betting picks that NFL expert pick sites sell.
2. Sell Sports Picks There are millions of people who bet on sports but 99% of them will never find an edge on their own. That's where you come in. Income generated from pick sales is risk-free which is helpful in offsetting the peaks and valleys of gambling-related income, and by locking in your own bets before listing them for sale there is no chance of your advice moving the lines against your favor.

A question that often comes up on sports betting forums is “Should I purchase betting picks?”

Personally, I’ve always answered this question as no, because very few cappers selling picks are actually winners. The few that are winners often rely on line movement, multiple unit bets on small markets, buying hooks, etc. As a result, their records are often based on lines not available to all clients. While all of these are concerns, the bigger reason not to purchase picks is that there are far more cost effective methods to beat sports for larger profits than purchasing picks allows. I’ll cover these methods in this article, and then cover a marketing tactic used by pick sellers that you’ll want to be aware of.

Beat Sports Betting Without a Tout

Method #1: Our website provides numerous sports betting strategy articles. Read our article on teaser betting strategy where you’ll find enough information to profit immediately from football teasers. Next, read our article on NFL prop betting, and you’ll have the knowledge required to beat the “which team will score first?” prop. Once familiar with this data, you can learn new skills via books on sports betting.

1) Sharp Sports Betting by Stanford Wong

2) Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting by King Yao

These are great books to tune you to think more like a winning sports bettor, and less like a fan or recreational bettor. One thing I’ll warn, however, is that these books are slightly outdated. I strongly suggest that prior to reading these books, you also read our article on the current betting market. When you’ve mastered the information in the articles and books I’ve suggested, you might then want to dive into the book Conquering Risk: Attacking Vegas and Wall Street by Elihu D. Feustel.

To sum this up, the two articles I recommended are enough to get you on track winning as a sport bettor. When you’re ready to take it to the next levels, plenty of information exists. Spending a little time and effort on sports betting will make you far more profitable than purchasing picks will.

Method #2: Follow free picks on the internet. Here at TheSportsGeek.com, we run a picks blog, where you can get the same caliber betting picks that NFL expert pick sites sell. Why pay for picks when you can get picks for free?

Our picks blog is only one source of free picks. Bloggers, forum posters, twitter users, and others give out free picks daily. While I’m sure this will sound absurd to most readers, I actually know a guy who uses custom developed software to scour the internet and find picks. The software delivers to him via a feed where any detected picks are hyperlinked. To track the pick, he clicks the hyperlink, assigns it to a user and the software does the rest. He can then go back later and find all sorts of data about how forum posters, bloggers, and tweeters are doing. This helps him not only to follow picks, but to spot winners and start paying more attention to the info they share elsewhere. This is obviously way too advanced for most of us, but the point is that looking for winners and then tracking their picks going forward can help you greatly. Once again, I ask, why purchase picks, when you can get picks for free?

When Should I Buy Picks?

When purchasing picks you need to find services that are either low cost, proven and tracked with high win rate, or of course best of all – both. The more money you spend on a picks service the higher winning percentage the handicapper will need to hit in order for you to make a profit. Check out our sports betting systems page for a list of handicappers and systems that are affordable.

Starting Off Small

For recreational gamblers, sport betting is meant to be fun. There are tons of contests on the internet that you can enter for either free or low stakes. During the football season, anyone who wins a $5 staked 10-team parlay at Bovada.lv also receives a share of the $10,000 weekly jackpot which is split with all winners. If there is no winner, the jackpot rolls over to the next week. Meanwhile, an old sportsbook previously offered $100,000 free to anyone who picks a perfect parlay card. While these are long shots, there are also picks pools, survivor pools, etc. available at the start of the season. Starting in late August, begin Google searches for NFL contests, and starting in late February, search for March Madness contests and bracket buster challenges. This type of betting can be a lot more fun that purchasing picks, and it can help you grow a bankroll while learning.

How To Sell Sports Picks

Now, if you’re a serious sports bettor looking to do this as an investment, purchasing picks is not the way to go. Once you win enough, your opportunities to wager become less, as no one wants to take your bets. Getting around this requires creativity, and the more knowledge you actually have about sports betting, the more creative you can get.

Reason to Avoid Touts

Having already presented a solid argument on reasons not to purchase picks without attacking the pick selling industry, it’s time now to get a little more dirty. The first thing to understand is that the tout industry is based off hype and marketing that plays on desperate gamblers. In sports betting, there are a lot of degenerate gamblers absolutely buried in debt looking for a way out. Also in this group, you’ll find a lot of extremely naïve people, which is easily explained by the fact that this is the group who feels they can make a profit randomly picking, despite the bookies 4.55% house edge. While most bet responsibly and use sports betting for entertainment, many are much deeper than that, and this is who the touts target.

To give an example of an ad that plays on the naïve, I’ll share the details of a newsletter I recently got from one of the largest and most reputable expert picks site. The header is a large advertisement with a photo of one of the cappers, and the impressive text states “Going back to last year he is riding a STAGGERING 13-5 ATS (72.2%)”, and reading further into the text, this relates to his picks on Fridays – yes, only Fridays. Below this, to the side of the newsletter’s main content, there are three smaller ads which each have a photo of a capper. The first capper is 13-4 on NFL games this month, the second has 27 years in business and wants to sell me a pick (no stats), where the third won last night and thinks he’ll do the same tonight.

I’ve played down what the ads say a little, and the ad copy is great with many claims sure to get a casual sports bettor interested. However, as a professional gambler and someone who uses statistics on a daily basis, I have a much different opinion. The first thing that jumps out at me is the opening ad, and I say, “what the heck makes Friday special?” If this capper is winning long term, wouldn’t his overall record be much more relevant than some obscure stat. What are his records on other days of the week? Now don’t get me wrong; maybe he has a winning record all 7 days of the week, I have no idea, what I’m simply saying is that they dived into a huge pool of stats to come up with whichever statistic looked best. He could in fact be a massive career loser and have a stat run like this on “Fridays dating back to last season”.

I had similar feelings about the 13-4 in October advertisement. Out of curiosity, I went and checked this company’s main website and found they have 15 cappers marketed as NFL experts selling picks. Having some knowledge of statics, I ran the math. If 15 people flip a coin heads or tails a total of 17 times each, there is a 73% chance one of them hits heads at least 13 times. More or less, if I had 15 monkeys picking teams at random, I’d have a similar stat to share.

Expert pick sites are great marketers, I’ll give them that. However, these ads are rather deceiving, as most are just cherry picked ripples of variance. It’s good marketing and the company might be legit; I just encourage you to keep a level head and not to get drawn into purchasing picks based on tout marketing hype. These guys have tons and tons of data that they can pick from, and they can market their results in such a way that desperate gamblers want to buy.

Once again, rather than pay for picks, why not get them for free at a free picks blog such as our sports betting picks blog that provides winners weekly at no cost. Ultimately, though, buy betting picks or don’t buy betting picks. It’s your choice. Whatever you decide, we wish you the best of luck.

So I take it you are looking to treat your Sports Betting as a Business. My name is Mike Lundin, and I’m a professional handicapper. Clients of my sports betting service have made hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. All I’m asking in return are subscription fees, all your winnings from the picks I give out are 100 percent yours to keep.

If you’re a big bettor, the subscription fee will amount to just a few units of the bankroll. It’s a simple matter of “spend money to make money”.

My Gambling Background

I’ve been gambling for a living since 2002. In the early days, I played almost exclusively online poker with occasional periods of sports betting until I decided to switch over sports betting full time in 2013. It was an easy decision to make as my sports betting winnings started to overtake the poker earnings by a large margin.

After a year as a professional sports bettor, my connections in the gambling world allowed me to get in contact with several sports handicapping sites who were impressed by my results. Long story short; my sports picks are now available for the public not only here, but also on various respected sports handicapping sites like Professional Sports Picks, Picks & Parlays,Covers Experts and Capper Reviews, where all my picks are documented.

Sports Betting as an Investment

Serious stock market investors pay stockbrokers to handle their investments, and investing in sports betting is no different. Well, in one aspect it is. Most people are well aware of their limitations at understanding and reading the stock market, but the same can not be said for most sports bettors. You may think you know sports well, but there is not much correlation between knowing sports and knowing how to bet on sports profitably.

To gamble for a living, you need to take it extremely seriously and treat it like a business. That includes everything from pick selections, bankroll management and composure in order to avoid tilt. Making the right picks and decisions when you’re on a hot streak comes naturally, but making the right picks during a slump is easier said than done. And not to mention, the research involved in identifying profitable winning sports picks take time.

This is where I can help you. I have been doing this professionally for several years with a proven track record, and with my picks you don’t have to worry about going on tilt or spending time doing research as all you’re doing is following my advice. You don’t have to lift a finger other than placing the wagers at your sportsbook.

All plays are sent to you by email which includes the pick selection and a write up about the game.

Subscription Plans

All my premium selections can be purchased individually, but if you’re a serious sports bettor a long-term subscription will prove to be a more profitable investment. At the end of the day, any pick can lose, but if you’re making +EV plays constantly you’re bound to make money long term.

All Sports Subscriptions

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The following packages include all my picks for all sports I release during the duration of the subscription. As you can see, the longer the subscription, the better value. Certainly, something to take into consideration when investing in a professional handicapper and sports betting as a business.

These and seasonal sports subscriptions are available at my premium picks & subscriptions page.

Where To Bet

It’s always a good idea to have as many sports betting accounts funded as possible. That way you can shop around for the best lines and odds, making sure you always get the best number available on the market. As the edges are very slim in sports betting, the importance of getting the best possible line can not be understated. Here are the top 5 online sportsbooks I always make sure I’m funded at:

Other Handicappers

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If you browse around the premium and free picks sections as well as the hot streaks page, you’ll see not only my picks and results but also information for some of the other top handicappers in the world today. This site is a partner on the SportsCappingnetwork, through which all my and the other featured handicappers’ picks are documented.