Why you should consider in-running tennis betting

Cavehill Red

There's been some harrumphing from some people on the 'Football tips from the Pro' thread about people posting tennis bets in there recently.
Personally, I don't see the problem. It's a tipping thread. Tips are good. Tips make us money. Doesn't matter if they're on a tennis player or a footie match, imo.
Anyway, for those tennis gambling virgins, here's why you should pop your cherry.
Firstly - no bogey draws to bugger up the betting. No complicated Asian handicaps to create a two-way market. Tennis is nice and simple - someone wins, the other loses.
But the real value is in in-running, if you can crack it. The key is to be watching the game. Bookies price up a match based on all the usual - form, ability, etc. Then the bots do their thing online, changing odds point by point.
But if you're watching the game, you can see when a player's head drops, see a lost point that really hurt them, or see when someone finds new belief in themselves.
You can see when someone looks potentially injured or tired. You can see the turning points of a tennis match in a way that no bookie's bot can.
And this is the great thing. Tennis odds can swing wildly depending on the score. Even from point to point, the odds can swing like drunk Gardai at a wifeswapping party.
If you can catch the swing, you can make great money.
Let's take a firm favourite like Nadal last night. Odds of 1/14 to win or somesuch. But if you were watching the game, you'd soon have seen in the first set he wasn't right. A few quid on the oppo at that point, before the game turned, would have made a lot of money. Even after he shipped a set, the bot is still working out odds on the basis that it's an anomaly and he'll still win the match. Even when it was clear he wasn't doing well, you could still have got great odds in a two horse race.
So that's my defence of in-running tennis betting. The chance to get great odds on a two way bet if you time it right. And if you do catch a swing, there's the chance of a quick hedge of your bet, locking in profit almost instantly.
I could go on and talk about set betting or handicap betting, but we'll leave it there for now.

Bumsex

no nothing about in running tennis,do you mean trading to guarantee profit..?

There is defo value in trading in BB if you know what your doing obviously...

Cavehill Red

Yup, hedging to guarantee profit.
As an example, let's say someone is 6-5 down in the first set, with their service game next. But you saw them push closely in the previous game, a few deuces, an unlucky bounce of the ball, and you reckon they'll win their service game and go on to win the set.
You'll get them at odds against to win the set at 6-5. If they win their service game, it goes to 6-6 and a tiebreak. The minute they go ahead in the tiebreak they'll be odds on, if they weren't already. At that point, you can hedge a bet on the opposition and lock in a profit.
Bball is similar to tennis in this regard, in that you can watch for turning points in games and it's a two horse race. Problem with bball is that usually bookies price a moving handicap into in-running bets. Not possible with tennis.

Bumsex

an e.g in the fed game,when djok broke,fed was 3.5 on bf,then the next leg fed broke back and went 2.22..so know what u mean

JONJO THE MISER

Used to make fortunes on in running tennis a few years ago when i was on betfair, alas lost most of it on horses.