Betting and online sport streams. Is it a good option? It is convenient to make bets on sports and watch the broadcast of the tournament at the same time. The player can react in a timely manner to what is happening, analyze the situation and, based on what he sees, make a bet. This is possible at bookmaker betting points, as well as on the Internet – on the official websites of bookmakers with online broadcasts.
Specialized gambling agencies keep up with the global trend, offering the opportunity to watch sports events right on their websites, spending, sometimes, very serious money to acquire exclusive rights to broadcast. However, this opens up very great opportunities for clients – watching interesting matches can be diversified by live betting.
In large betting companies streams are organized directly on the site. They work without downloading additional applications, right in the browser window. In some cases, there is a restriction (designed to reduce the load on the servers) – either players with a positive balance (having money in their account) or those who made a bet in the last 24 hours can watch matches.
As a rule, the window with streams is hidden in a section called Live. Large companies provide a very wide list of broadcasts, and if desired (and the availability of functionality), the player will be able to divide the screen into several parts and monitor several matches, odds.
A separate topic for discussion is the broadcasting of virtual sports events, the so-called virtual sports. Usually available without registration.
What are the most popular broadcasts?
Broadcasting in bookmakers as an effective tool for live betting The largest number of sports streams on the sites are in the following disciplines:
- Football
- Volleyball
- Hockey
- Basketball
- Tennis.
The following sports are much less common:
- Motorsport.
- Snooker
- Badbinton
- Motor sports.
Nevertheless, if you wish, you can find them. On average, a major bookmaker can broadcast several thousand sports events per day, covering, of course, all the matches of world importance.
How to use such a tool?
Of course, bookmakers buy expensive streaming rights and rent powerful servers to run the entire system for non-charitable purposes. Therefore, restrictions were introduced for users – before, it was enough to log in to access the broadcasts, but today bookmakers may demand to replenish the account and place a bet (within the last 24 hours).
Another interesting limitation that we want to tell you about – in some cases, there are restrictions on viewing the broadcast for customers who stay in the country where the sporting event is held. So, if, while in France, you want to watch the broadcast of a football match taking place there, this may not be possible.
Is it worth making such bets?
Most beginner betting enthusiasts rely on this strategy of the game, assuming that it will make them rich.
In order to have an advantage over the bookmaker, bettors even deliberately attend football matches in order to get ahead of the online office at the right time and bet on a goal already scored via a mobile phone, tablet or laptop. At the same time, they do not realize what risks such rates bear.
Office employees are responsible for monitoring and identifying such rates, therefore, hoping that you will be unnoticed by them is simply stupid. In the best case, you will be “forgiven” for one such bet, since the player could accidentally bet during the goal, but if the situation repeats, be sure that the bookmaker will take the most severe measures.
Thus, once upon a time in the process of becoming online bookmakers on such strategies it was really possible to earn money. The bookmakers did not have the functionality that would allow them to quickly update the results and track down the “post-gamers” in automatic mode. Now all this is there, so you should not bet on such a strategy of the game.