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Anyone know of any good books to read, or articles that talk about gambling and how odds work, how the over under works and where you can find information on that.  I have just started betting at a site and I am confused by the term parlay and over under and who the favorite is, how much you will win if you win the bet and all that stuff.

Thanks!

Nowadays any review any tutorial and any guidance is easily available on google even students of any field now use internet for their study and other tutorials and I recently searched on google and found that for learning gambling there are a number of tutorials so I will suggest you to use google for any tutorial you will learn better from there.

To learn about specific rules obout certain forms of gambling, I'd suggest looking through Wikipedia.
They offer some really decent information and you'll know it's, usually, not biassed.

For example, you wanted to know what parlay was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlay_(gambling)

Wikipedia article on odds (This one might be too technical):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds

But for online poker there's an even better resource than wikipedia:
http://www.thepokerbank.com/

I hope you got some help from all of this :)

It depends on what you are betting at of course... if you are betting on sport matches, then study the statistics of that particular sport, the different teams etc.. same for boxing/ufc etc. Learning about what gambling itself is good but you must know your game.

I dont think you need book to learn about that,you can just search it on internet, its all very clear and by the time you will master it, and it takes some times to,know all of the term meaning, the odds is made by booker they have their market prediction about the match, little clue if you want to bet on soccer, the odds of the game can change while the match is playing, so if you are not sure what to bet you can observe first

Thanks.  I think this is what I need.  Just walking into gambling here and betting on sports I have only done stuff like Poker and little things like that where there are no odds or different payouts depending on the odds.  Any recommendations on how to beat the odds?  Or is it just the same do research on the team and see how they are doing?

Tutorial and guidelines is easy to makes things better no need books or anything just follow what your guts thinjs and you will know and also in free trial basis sometimes we are discovering it on our own way noo need help of others on how to gambling nowadays gambling is like a game that we played before we are kids.

I don't think you can learn gambling anywhere in any institution since there is nothing constant in many gambling games. All you learn is experience being active for all your time spent. In sports betting even big tipsters fail to interpretate correctly many times. If there was such institution then gambling casinos were closed and bankrupted long time ago.

This is very helpful sharing so that I also think this will be really helpful to learning something about poker and other type of gambling, thanks for this helpful post.

Read basics about gambling and theory of probability on wikipedia or other sources, it will help you to get understanding of basic concepts, then you can read articles about specific games and strategies for them. When you'll start gambling, play with small sums at first, and analyze if you made any mistakes.

After looking at the title i thought that it will be a tutorial for to learn about gambling that is why I immediately clicked the title but after coming here I found that OP also need guidance. But thanks for your post I got a good idea about playing from your post.

I agree to some replies and it is much easier and have more tutorials and guidelines you will saw on the internet but when in the guidelines on some book are different from the internet some of them are very helpful and you will only read if you bought a book of it.So if you habe book it is much better and to have an internet access for what method and tutorials you need for .

I suggest if you don't know betting or gambling then consider your lucky and don't go for it because you may start it for fun purpose but at the end, you may or may not addict to these games. If you addict to these games, then you will lose a lot of money. if you can, it is better to avoid it and find some other fun activities to spend your free time.

It depends what game you want to master. You want to test every casino games or have some specific games on mind?
By the terms you posted you are interested in sport betting. This site can be useful for you: http://www.ildado.com/sports_betting_glossary.html (http://www.ildado.com/sports_betting_glossary.html)
It is a glossary containing probably every sport betting term worth knowing.

A simple Google search for the specific topic should be enough. You don't really need to create this topic. For example: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+parlay+%3F (http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+parlay+%3F) and http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Sport+betting+terms+explained (http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Sport+betting+terms+explained).

Anyway, if you have the time to learn the terms used in gambling, I'd suggest you to also check out terms used in trading because trading is a better alternative to invest your Bitcoin in. I mean to say that gambling is too risky. For someone who like to learn (hopefully you), should learn something better.

I assume by the context of OP's post he is talking about sports betting.

To understand the main terms, you don't need any books, just do a quick google search. The easiest thing to bet on is ML or moneyline, which is which team will win in the end.

However, to gain the skill of sports betting, you just have to practice betting and research before every game. Eventually, you will be good at spotting potential upsets or obvious wins. There are books that you can read, but I'd say to practice betting with small amounts first, then getting big.

It also helps if you are interested in watching sports. Good luck!

Google is your friend mate. Most the usual gambling terms online that you need to know the meaning are just one search away. Actually some of the terms you mentioned are pointing to sports betting.

Just do regular bets at sports betting and soon you will realized much deeper the meanings of other terms. I too didn't familiar with the terms used but by just reading those terms in some of the posts here I understand what it is even without searching what those terms really means.

You do not need a book just search using google and you will find answers about parlay,over,under etc etc. But to give you a brief description about parlay is you need to bet to two or more games, the more games you parlay the bigger the reward you will get if all those game will win. Lets just say you parlay 3 teams, You will win your bet if those 3 teams will win, but if one of them lost then you will lose also your bet even the 2 game will win.

I feel that almost every site tends to explain all those things very well on the site itself. Thats one way they get people introduced to gamble. Would however put in a Psychology book for poker: The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success , But this very well applies for any other form of gambling too.

maybe the book or some tutorial if for some old time gambling, and its not for this time because i see that gambling itself is being growth form time to time so the best guideline or tutorial for playing gambling is trial and error like other jobs. maybe with some practice, we can learn new strategy that can work with us and win the games.

The best way to learn how to gamble is to put a considerable sum of money onto a gambling site. It doesn't matter which- any will do! Then just start placing a bunch of bets until you run out of money. Rinse and repeat, if you run out of reserve funds borrow money and take out loans. In no time you will have learned how to gamble. Good luck!

Those books would help but has only limited guides ,i would suggest to watch or find some stratedgies from the internet as we know that on internet is widely use and there are more guides and tutorials how .I think books are not updated on it so much better in the web  and its updated and more realistic especially online gamblings .
We have only experience on gambling and i know its not enough for us but some gambling type's maybe applied to win in a games .

You dont need books just to learn on how to gamble. Almost all information you need not just in gambling is in the internet now, just search it.

As  others members  being said here, theyare suggesting the same thing which  you would  need to  use google   for searching   regarding  on it, there are  lots of tutorials  of all aspects  and  including on gambling.  Just use  your  time to make  use of search  engines. Its  everywhere.

Make sure to study the single most important concept as well:

Bankroll management

If you cannot control the money you put into gambling and cannot control yourself, your gambling adventures will become short lived or very expensive fast. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the concept of bankroll management. You will thank me later.

even you have guide and you understand which strategy to use there's still a big risk i guess its luck and timing plus controlling your self for sure you will learn everything while inside the gambling site, just be very cautious and just spend the money that you can afford to lose.