Quarter Basketball Betting

Not sure about the winner of the basketball game? So bet against the favorite in a separate quarter! There is a whole betting strategy for this.

Quarter betting in basketball is a real outlet for those sports bettors who love basketball but are afraid to bet on the outcome of the whole match. Is it possible to win on basketball bets, regardless of the final results of the match? Consider a basketball betting strategy in quarters that offers such a way.

Basketball betting

Basketball is one of the five most popular sports among players. He's fast enough. Basketball features allow you to bet on a handicap in a wide range of points, bet on team and total totals, and in large matches - on individual player statistics.

A significant advantage of betting in basketball is the number of game segments. There are only two of them in football - halves of 45 minutes. In basketball, four quarters of 10 (Europe) or 12 minutes (USA, Asia) are played. And all the above betting options can be made not only for regular time, but also for each half of the meeting, even for each quarter.

Before the start of the game, you can bet on the handicap or total of the first quarter, first half, the entire game. In live, towards the end of each gaming quarter, the player can bet on the next quarter. So for the game you will test yourself in predicting four mini-matches instead of one.

Players make similar bets using a special quarterly basketball betting strategy. Let's look at the components of this strategy.

The essence of the quarterly basketball betting strategy

The strategy is based on a simple assumption: a team, even a hopeless outsider, can win at least one quarter from the favorite. Based on this idea, it makes sense to “catch” that very potentially winning quarter for this team.

That is, the quarterly basketball betting strategy is based on catch-up. You catch up with the quarter result you need in live basketball.

This strategy has the following advantages:

• extremely rarely an outsider loses all 4 quarters even with a clear preponderance of forces in favor of the opponent,
• after winning the first and second quarters, the favorite tends to “loosen his grip”, sometimes even resting the best players, and the motivated outsider gnaws out the victory in the quarter,
• bookmakers do not always correctly assess the level of opponents, set odds, and this can be used in strategy bets.

Since you can't initially guess which quarter will be winning, use the catch-up method when distributing the game bank for a match.

Bet on the victory of the underdog in the first quarter. If the bet doesn't go well, then increase the size of the bet to win in the second quarter by two and a half times. Calculate the amount of each next bet according to the formula: (current loss + target profit) / (coefficient - 1).

If your team takes at least one quarter, then you will return what you spent and make a profit in the amount of the first bet. If your team loses all four quarters, continue in another match.

Supporters of the basketball betting strategy talk about the need for selection of matches and strict adherence to money management. When choosing matches for strategy, they advise paying attention to teams underestimated by bookmakers that are approximately equal in terms of the level of rivals, insider information, such as the lack of leaders on the floor in the upcoming match, the presence of injuries among leading players, etc.

You also need to follow the odds offered by the bookmakers for teams and the first quarter before the match, and the odds for the quarter during the match. If you choose a coefficient below 1.80 at a distance, even a large number of guessed and "caught" quarters will not give a profit to the player. In most bookmakers, the bet is on a quarter pair, and often the odds for both selections are approximately equal. Therefore, players are looking for the most attractive bookmakers in terms of odds.

The bookmaker also gives you a quarter handicap. In a strategy, you can use handicap bets instead of a pure outcome. In this case, choose the size of the handicap, for which they give an acceptable coefficient.

How to bet on a quarterly basketball betting strategy

Let's consider an example of one match for a strategy bet on basketball in quarters. Let it be "Chicago" - "Denver". For the first quarter, a handicap of -1.5/+1.5 points is given for a coefficient of 1.80.

You want to bet according to the strategy and bet 100 dollars on Denver. Chicago wins the first quarter with a score of 32:28. Handicap does not pass.

For the second quarter, the bookmaker gives the same handicap with the same odds. Again, bet on Denver, calculating the amount of the bet using the formula: (100 + 100) / (1.80 - 1) = 250 dollars. The second quarter ends with a score of 25:23 - you lost again.

Cursing, you already take out 562.5 dollars from your pocket and charge a head start (+2.5) on Denver in the third quarter for 1.80. Your perseverance is rewarded, in the quarter draw 30:30. The bet has finally won!

Let's calculate what this match brought you. You spent 350 dollars due to the loss in the first and second quarters, but won 562.5 x 1.80 = 1012.5 dollars. Subtract the loss and the amount of the bet. Your profit amounted to 100 dollars. Not much. But you didn't risk too much either. There is no time to rest on our laurels, you need to forget this match and look for the next one.

Some players are modernizing the main ideas of the strategy, adding new features to it. You can not play the first quarter in the selected match, but wait for the outsider to lose and the line for the second quarter appears in order to start from it. True, this does not bring mathematical benefits.

How to Choose Matches for Quarterly Basketball Betting Strategy

International leagues are popular among fans of this strategy, in which unpredictable results often occur. And the NBA, where there is a high level of competition and confrontation in every match. Such national championships as the championships of the Philippines, Italy, Germany, France, and the Czech Republic are also suitable. Some players each season make up the top championships in which the outsider wins more often in quarters.

The main recommendations for the selection of matches are as follows:

• look at the statistics: none of the opposing teams should lose all quarters in a row in unsuccessful matches of the season,
• study personal meetings: there must be won quarters for each of the teams in face-to-face confrontations,
• analyze the totals: outsider teams are welcome, which are activated in the second half of the matches.

If your bet on an outsider in the first quarter has paid off, you can safely move on to the next match. The bookmaker will no longer give a suitable handicap for an outsider, and the favorite will try to return to the game so as not to miss the advantage in the match.

Is it profitable to bet on basketball using the quarter betting strategy?

The effectiveness of this strategy depends on you, or rather on the choice of games. Competent selection of matches for the strategy can bring over 60% of won bets, and without it, the figure will be at the level of 20%.

A couple of lost matches for an ordinary player with flat bets will cause slight annoyance, and for a player with a basketball betting strategy in quarters, this is from eight to twelve lost stacks (according to the number of quarters). Even with a careful distribution of the pot, it will take a long time to just win back the resulting loss.

The main advantage of this strategy is a large number of matches for selection. The basketball season lasts 6-8 months, and any office offers a wide range of national championships and international tournaments.

There are enough cons:

• the selection of matches is needed, but the selection criteria are subjective and inconsistent: for example, what worked last season may not work in the new one,
• catch-up is an aggressive form of pot distribution: several losing matches in a row will increase the amount of the next bet so much that you have to put up with a loss,
• you need to catch matches in real time, monitor odds and their changes,
• The bookmaker's limits on the size of bets on quarters in basketball matches are not the highest, and this limits the catch-up.

Try to use the strategy of betting on basketball in quarters - and keep a game diary. At first, you can not bet real money, just fix the outcomes that you would bet on. After a while, you will understand whether you choose matches and bets well enough.