For sports betting fans, this is a golden era. The market is full of bookmakers trying to compete for your wagers, and attempting to offer the widest possible range of sports to entice you to bet with them. But breadth is not everything. Sure, you want to be able to bet on any sport you choose, but these days betting is becoming increasingly complex.
Modern sports punters are inventive and ingenious at sniffing out profit, and bookmakers need to be able to match that ingenuity in the range of markets they offer. So depth of market has become as important to punters as the range of sports and events that are covered, something that Betfred appear to have taken to heart in putting together their sports betting portfolio.
Depth is everything
As a sports punter, when you analyse an event, you can never be sure what you are going to find or what your edge might be. So you want to be able to easily match your insight to an appropriate market, and Betfred’s market depth enables you to do just that. For example, on a typical English Premier League game, Betfred will be offering 40-50 separate markets, including Correct Score, Half-Time/Full-Time, Under/Over and many others; a depth that they extend to most sports.
Handicap varieties
Handicap betting is growing in popularity as it gives you a way to profit by estimating not just which team or individual is most likely to win, but by gauging the extent of their supremacy. With Betfred, you can play handicap markets in a wide range of sports, from tennis to American football, including the ever popular Asian handicaps markets and even half-time handicaps.
Player bets
Betfred provide wide coverage of individual-based sports, but they also provide markets on individual players within team sports. So whether you want to bet on the top run scorer during the first innings of a Test match, the identity of the first try scorer in a Six Nations game, or whether Harry Kane will score a hat-trick in an FA Cup game, you will find a market to fit your needs.
Special bets
Like all the best modern bookmakers, Betfred are constantly looking at new types of market, using their ingenuity to provide different ways for punters to bet on their favourite sports. This includes a range of combination bets such as predicting the identity of the First Goalscorer and the Final Score in a football game and Coupon Bets in which you choose games in which you think both teams will score. If you want to bet in a particular market, the chances are that Betfred already offer it!
Pick your punt
To emphasise how important market depth is to Betfred, they’ve even created a bet which enables punters to create their own market. With the Pick Your Punt offer, you can nominate a bet type that you would like to wager on and Betfred will price it up for you. It is the ultimate in market depth, and means that the only limit on the type of market you can bet on is your imagination.
Conclusion
Betting on sport can be an art as well as a science, and as a punter you want a bookmaker that is able to match that desire for imaginative and unusual betting opportunities. That’s probably why after 50 years, Betfred is still one of the top bookmakers around, offering a bewildering variety of market types on every sport you can think of.
