The gambling industry has witnessed online gaming to be moving both progressively and globally with many consumers going on the net to play and bet on slots, poker and baccarat, among others.

So, How Did the Internet Change the Gambling Industry?

Mobile Devices, Tablets and Smartphone Usage Is on the Rise

With millions of people that can now access the web through their device, playing online and betting on their top casino games have been made so easy and accessible.

This has been one of the trends that many casinos have adapted in their business.

While the first online casino, InterCasino, was launched in 1996, when there were only 18 games available, there are now thousands of gambling websites in the world.

New casino online businesses are launched every day. (Tech Addiction)

And with the emergence of mobile devices, which obviously made gambling accessible to all players no matter where they are in the world, there are now millions of users using the web to satisfy their gambling needs.

Without a doubt, mobile gaming has definitely been on the rise in the last few years. In the UK alone, online gambling was up by 75% year over year, accounting for more than 25% of gambling-related searches. (Gambling.net)

Rapid Expansion of Broadband Services

Another factor that has enormously changed the gambling industry is the prominence and availability of internet services.

Almost every household in the world is now capable of accessing the internet through their broadband services, alongside the fact that gamblers could also access the web through Wi-Fi.

Consumer Confidence on Market Players

In Cambodia, for instance, land-based casinos, including the Holiday Palace, has also opened their doors on the net.

Before, gamblers used to hit the venue to play their favorite card and table games, but now they can do so without going to and from land casinos with the launch of their websites, which made them available to gamblers worldwide right at the comforts of their homes.

Casinos like the Holiday Palace is a trusted casino through the years and so consumers who want to keep engaged in their games now feel more confident of playing in the casino even on its web version.

“Truly, there will be more and more of these gaming services to promote on the web with the significant market growth that has been relying on the net as one of its main sources of revenues.”

Social Gambling Emerges

Developing from the aspiration (and inspiration) to making money through social networks, developers made social apps available for a majority of social media inclined players, following the footsteps of market players that now also make top dollar earnings on the web.

Casino Apps

Players do not only have the chance of accessing and playing slots and roulettes, along with other games through mobile, but also through apps. Depending on your connection speed, you can have the app downloaded within minutes and start playing and betting using on your favorite casino online.

Last but not the least is the introduction and increase of reliable casino service providers like the HolidayPalace.net and Gclub24hr. 

Both services have been the go-to source of gamblers worldwide for their casino playing needs. No wonder such sites are reputable and trusted. They have safe and secured playing environment and top of the line games and services.

There you have the latest developments in the gambling industry so far in 2016. Don’t be left behind but adapt such changes if you’re a casino business owner, or play online if you’re a gambler. After all, the internet will become the main online gambling source worldwide in the very near future.

So with all that in mind, here a another great strategy for making money in-play.

Corners

Betting on the amount of corners in a game can be a great money maker especially in-play as most corners take place in the last 20 minutes of games when a team is chasing a goal to equalise or win. Here are some stats from last season in Europe’s top leagues regarding the amount of corners per game, the lowest amount of average corners per game was 9.7 in the French Ligue 1, the highest amount of average corners took place in the English Premier League with a massive 11.2 amount of average corners occurring. Considering stats like that it is a market certainly worth betting on and odds greatly improve as the game rolls on.

For example let’s take the current Tottenham v West Ham game, it is half time and there have been 3 corners and Spurs are 0-1 down, the odds currently sit at 5/1 for over 10 corners, bearing in mind that Spurs will no doubt throw the kitchen sink at West Ham we have a pretty good idea that the corner count will shoot up as the half rolls on, certainly worth throwing £5 or £10 at in my opinion.

Cards

Betting on cards over or under a certain amount can be profitable but I would always advise you watch the game to gauge how feisty it is. Big games between top teams or big derbies can be great for Yellow card betting, mainly because the referee’s are often slow to whip the cards out as they know to expect an aggressive match. I like to bet on over 6.5 cards in these games at around the 10/15 minute mark, once the aggressors have had their first warnings. Obviously watching the game is the only way that you can judge this but it is a great way of adding cash to the pot.

For example let’s assume that you bet on 4 teams to win with the following odds.

Chelsea 1/2

Arsenal 1/2

Swansea 3/1

Newcastle 5/1

Now if you placed £2.50 on these choices individually and they all won, your profit will look like this…

Chelsea  – £1.25

Arsenal   – £1.25

Swansea – £7.50

Newcastle – £12.50

So, your £10 worth of bets has yielded you £22 of profit, not bad but to predict 4 outcomes and get them all right surely deserves a little more than that. Now let’s assume you had placed an accumulator bet on the same 4 outcomes your profit would be…

£132.50 !!!!

A little different from the measly £22 you’d have won if betting individually. Here is how it works, I will use the decimal odds to make it easier, the odds stay the same but for example1/2 becomes  1.5.

Basically the odds are multiplied against each other like so…

Chelsea –     1.5

Arsenal –      1.5

Swansea –    4.0

Newcastle –  6.0

Which means that to calculate the winnings we do this… 1.5 x 1.5 x 4.0 x 6.0 = 54… 54 multiplied by £2.50 gives us the magic figure of £132.50.

You can of course add as many selections to the accumulator as you wish and whilst the odds for winning go sky high, so does the risk factor, remember that sport is fickle and predicting 5,6,7 or more outcomes is a tricky thing to do, unless you have a crystal ball!

Something I like to do from time to time is to split my bet. Take the example I have just shown you, if you have £10 to bet with it might be worth betting £1.25 on the individual bets, a bet of £5 with a return of £11, and place £5 on the accumulator which will return £66..25. This is a good choice if you have a selection within the 4 that you aren’t super confident about and at least this way if a single team let’s you down then you will only lose a little money and you can cover a bit of your bet. You will kick yourself of course if they all come in and you only win £76.26 (£66.25 + £11) when you could’ve won £132.50 but it is certainly an option to consider.

That in a nutshell is an accumulator, the route to big wins.

Bet 365

Currently Bet365 are offering an industry-leading £200 welcome offer, simply deposit up to £200 into your Bet365 account and they will match whatever you deposit. Unlike other welcome offers, they don’t give you this money as a free bet where you don’t get your stake back, they will give you £200 in funds that, once rolled over 3 times, is yours to enjoy, simply put, there is no better offer than this to be found anywhere on the internet.

Paddy Power

This may not be the biggest offer out there but in terms of how much they’ll give you based on what you bet, it is the highest return on a first bet. Simply place a £10 bet and Paddy Power will give you £30 in free bets to gamble with. It is important to note that the £30 stake that they give you is non-withdrawable but the winnings are. This is a great opportunity for you to make some cash. The minimum odds that you must bet on in order to unlock your £30 in free bets is 1.5 or 1/2, which is considerably low, this means that you can place your tenner on a big favourite and still gain your free bets.

TonyBet

TonyBet may not exactly be a household name but with  a 50% deposit bonus up to a huge £100, they really should be. This type of offer is exactly what I am talking about when I say that competition between gambling companies is high, TonyBet are aware of this and hence this huge offer. Moreover, TonyBet offer some fantastic odds and also some combinations for football matches that cannot be found elsewhere. My advice would be to give them a try and take advantage of their welcome offer, then see for yourself if they suit you.

Winner

Winner are currently offering a £200 welcome bonus, previously they had terrible rules on this such as no more than £10 stake at a time but they have since relaxed these rules meaning more money up for grabs for us all. While the rollover maybe me a little high at 8 x deposit and bonus amount, the rewards can be very high. You can now place £50 bets at a time and the only other caveat is that one of the bets must be on a double or more to qualify for rollover. Nonetheless this is a free £200 to bet with and if you do it right, it can yield big rewards.

Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes straight up £50 matched first bet offer is one of those ‘does-what-it-says-on-the-tin’ type offers, minimum odds 1.5 (1/2) and no rollover in sight. Ladbrokes also boast an outstanding record with their odds so betting with them, you can be sure to get odds at great prices. Also Ladbrokes will regularly boost their odds which means that it will be quids in for you if you take this offer.

If you take a look on the betting tips section of the site then you’ll see some of the strategies that I employ to make as much money as possible online. Now, here is the trick.

Before I begin with any strategy at all I place hypothetical bets for around 2 to 3 weeks, no bets at all online, just on paper. This way I can see and get an idea of the potential success of my brainwave. For instance, when I began doing the in-play bet for ‘over 0.5 goals,’ I spent 3 weeks watching games that I ‘would’ have placed a bet on, I decided that my bet would be £50 and that I would be looking for odds at around 1.4. Each time I saw a 0-0 game that I thought looked like there’d be a goal, I wrote my bet down and watched how it unfolded. After 3 weeks I was hypothetically up by £495, I didn’t need to see any more,  it was time to make some money!

Things to Bear in Mind

In order for this to work there are a couple of important things to remember. Firstly you have to be honest with yourself, before you start decide exactly how much you are going to place on each ‘bet’ and don’t deviate from it. If you start putting down that you’ll place £100 on each bet when it reality you’d only place £20 then, if successful, you’re going to end up being up by far more than you really would be, being up is still good but there will be the temptation to start placing £100 bets when you actually start betting. If you do that and end up having a few bad bets at the start then you’re going to cause yourself problems.

Don’t lie to yourself, if you are confident that the strategy will work (as we always are,) and then if your hypothetical bets prove otherwise, ditch the plan and start again. Remember that this is the point of doing it this way. I started places bets on over 9 corners in-play and after 2 weeks I was down by over £300 ‘hypothetically,’ I was really confident when I started as I was picking games that had at least 5 corners at half time, however after test betting it didn’t work out. So I went back to the drawing board at came up with a new strategy.

It doesn’t take much hard work to do this and it will mean that not only do you have an idea of how successful your strategy will be, but you’ll also know exactly what kind of games to be looking out for when you actually start throwing your money down.

Safe and Small

In recent weeks I’ve started betting in-play at odds of 1.3-1.35 no higher than that unless I really have a strong feeling. I like to start a day at around £20 and stake the full lot on odds of around 1.3, as my pot grows I continue to stake my full pot on similar odds. When I hit £100, I take my original £20 out, this way I will lose nothing but profit if the bet goes wrong.

The bets that I use more than any others are… over 0.5 match goals, over 1.5 match goals, and over X amount of corners. I usually place my bets from the 50 minute mark onwards ensuring better odds, also 50 minutes is long enough to get a feel for the game and 40 minutes leaves enough time for plenty more action.

Here’s what 10 bets look like following this strategy, for the sake of example, I will use odds of 1.33.

£20      – Returns £26.60

£26.60- Returns £35.38

£35.38- Returns £47.06

£47.06- Returns £62.59

£62.59- Returns £83.24

£83.24- Returns £110.71 – At this point, remove the original £20

£90.71 -Returns £120.64

£120.64- Returns £160.45

£160.45- Returns £213.40

£213.40- Returns £283.82

Now you may think that 10 bets in a row is unlikely but I have completed this several times, often with ease. Just remember that odds of 1.33 are incredibly low which mean that it is far more likely to come off. Make sure that you have a good feeling for the games that you’re betting on and once the first 5 bets come in make sure you take your original stake out, that way if you lose, you are still in the same position you started in.

Always try to do these on a Saturday or a day when there is plenty of football on to give you the most choice, and never try to force a bet if you don’t believe in it.

The power of the internet knows no bounds, we live in an age where there is very little that we cannot discover, very few people that we cannot make contact with and very few opportunities that we can’t take advantage of.  For me, one of the best features of the internet is the ability to make and save money from the comfort of your own home with just a computer and a connection. There are countless ways to do this and here are my top 5 methods.

Gambling

It goes without saying that I love to gamble, I take a smart and calculated approach to it and the online world of gambling has really blown up in recent years which means that competition for your money is high. Because of the competition, the companies offer huge welcome offers and daily deals to you and this is where you can make your money. My advice is to use all of the companies when they have deals on, take advantage of free bets, this way you can aim for the most reward with the least risk to your finances. As long as you are not greedy or reckless, online gambling can be a perfect way to add some pounds to your pocket.

Using Coupons

A trait that exists already in the physical (real) world is couponing, collecting money-off or free product coupons from magazines etc. and using them to save money on your weekly shop. The digital version of this practice is huge, plenty of websites have popped up who work with companies and shops to give you great discounts on a whole variety of purchases and services. The popularity of companies such as Groupon UK is staggering and with good reason. They offer daily deals, long term offers and huge discounts on products, days out, services and far more, websites such as these will only continue to grow and as they do, the deals will get bigger so if you haven’t checked them out yet, then do so now.

Cashback

In a similar vein as couponing, there are websites and apps out there that are offer cashback on items that you buy. These are sponsored by companies to encourage you to buy their products and the cashback is given to you via third party website. If you are making a large purchase or going to do your weekly shop then I would definitely check out the website beforehand and see what products can offer cashback, some companies even offer a receipt scanning function which will tell you how much cashback you are entitled to.

Freelance Work

Even if you work full time, there is little to stop you from earning a few extra quid online with freelance work. Several websites out there act as a middle-man between freelancers and future employers with some sites hosting over 100,000 people looking to hire people. The types of jobs you could do are writing, designing, simple admin tasks such as sending emails, proof reading plus some higher skilled jobs depending on what skills you possess. Even if you only know a little about the online world, proof reading a document for a foreign speaker, for example, can earn you some pocket change, do it 5 to 10 times a month and you’ll soon see the difference.

Selling Your Stuff

It has never been easier to flog your stuff online as it is right now, with companies like eBay and Amazon having the worldwide popularity that they possess you can be sure that there is buyer for almost anything. Sites such as those are easy to sign up to, easy to post your listing and even easier to complete a transaction. As well as these sites there are also sites that will simply give you cash for things like old CD’s, DVD’s and computer games, you receive an offer online, accept it and the process of sending your stuff is made very easy by the buyers. Have a root around your house know and see what you can find to get rid of, there is money just sitting there waiting to be cashed in.

Something I want to talk about today is exchange betting, particularly ‘lay’ betting to help you increase your pot even further. Once again, you won’t have massive returns on this, but lay betting can help you take advantage of the people that I like to call the ‘dreamers’. Firstly if you are unsure of what exchanges are then check out my article here which will explain it.

Now, your options for exchange sites are mainly Betfair, Smarkets and Betdaq, my advice would be to use Smarkets as they only charge 2% commission on winnings, compared to 5% on the other sites.

Method

So here is how I play it, I like to do £20 bets but you can of course use how ever much you see fit, also I usually place my bets pre match for this. I do occasionally place in-play bets if I’m watching the game but more often than not I will scan the available bets pre game. Remember with lay betting that you are betting on something ‘not‘ happening so, as simple as it sounds, the job is to look for something that is highly unlikely to happen.

The second part of the puzzle is that once you have found an event or a selection that you want to bet on, you need to ensure that someone else has decided to place money on the ‘crazy’ event happening and trust me, there are a lot of ‘dreamers’ out there. Bear in mind that with exchanges you are simply betting against other users, when you lay bet, you become the bookie.

Take last night for example, for Norwich to beat Spurs 2-0, had odds on the exchange at 12/1 and someone or perhaps more than one person, had offered up money to the value of £24.50 that this would happen. Now lets look at this, firstly, Spurs have lost only once away all season, and only 3 times at all this season. Spurs have the best goal difference in the league and have only failed to score in 1 game. Norwich sit 17th in the table having won only 4 home games all season and have shipped 18 goals in 11 games. The idea of Norwich winning this at all seemed crazy, let alone 2-0. So I matched the odds and laid down the full £24.50 against Norwich winning 2-0.

The Danger

There is great danger that could come with a bet like the this, especially in an industry as turbulent and shocking as football. If I win the bet then I only win the stake that the punter put up, so I would win £24.50, minus the 2% commission from Smarkets giving me £24 profit, which to me feels like easy money. However, if the unthinkable happened and somehow Norwich were to miraculously beat Spurs 2-0 then I would lose £294, this is my £24.50 stake times by the 12/1 odds that I gave our ‘dreamer’. It can be risky but if you do your research well, and pick the right bet it doesn’t need to be, start off with lower odds possibly and a lower stake if you are worried about losing big if a miracle occurs.

The best way to approach this is by doing a hypothetical plan for a week or two as I discussed last week. In my opinion this is easy money, I have only lost once in a big way but the profit that I had made before hand easily covered this loss. Go get that money guys!!!

Gambling.

It is imperative, and I mean imperative that when you sign up to new bookies that you do whatever it takes to sign up to notifications from the site as they very often contain offers that are invitation only, meaning more money for you.

Birthdays

A great example of this is something that happened to me last week, it was my birthday and I received £55 worth of free bet offers for a variety of online bookmakers. From this money I managed to turn that free money into £218 of well, free money. Not bad eh?

New Year

Just a week later and it was New Years Eve, once again the free bets continued to flow into my email account and I went on to make another £100 from absolutely nothing. All because I had signed up to continue to receive notifications form the bookmakers.

Long Time No See

This is another method that gambling companies use to keep you on the hook and very often I am sent offers by bookies that I haven’t used in a while. They are needy and generous so I advise that you take notice of these emails, many of the offers I have received have been almost equal to the Welcome Offers that I received in the first place.

Most email accounts have separate folders for ‘promotional’ material so the emails very rarely take up much space in your actual in box. There is so much free money out there guys and gals that you’d be foolish not to go against your instincts and check, or uncheck the box to make sure you stay up to date with everything they want to throw at you.

Online Tipsters

Gone are the days of a man down the pub offering you a ‘dead cert’ horse down the pub that almost always goes on to fall at the first fence, we live in a different world today and after just a quick search on Twitter you will find many tipsters offering free advice, many with great track records.

One thing that many tipsters offer that have a great success rate is their £25-£1000 challenges, they usually aim to achieve this in just 10 bets and normally on in-play markets so it’s best to make sure that you follow them on both Twitter and Facebook and keep checking what they’re posting.

Around Christmas time many of them offer a larger challenge such as £25-£5000 challenges, many of which succeed and give you a great opportunity to make big cash.

A Few Things To Remember

Always remember what you started with, these challenges mean that towards the end you are betting very big amounts to reach the goal, for example bet number 8 could involve placing £750 to return £890 or something similar. As soon as you make a decent pot, take out your original £25, this way you lose nothing. On top of that it is important to consider how much you want to make, of course making £1000 is better than £750 but if you have £750 in your hands and you could really do with it then my advice would be don’t gamble what you can’t afford to lose. Finally, if you lose your £25 on the first challenge, don’t be discouraged, these free tipsters very often complete these challenges and perhaps you got unlucky first time around, my advice would be to try again at the next opportunity, it is very likely that you will make at least your original £25 back in no time.