Jan 22 2009
Super Bowl 2009: The Pittsburgh Steelers vs The Arizona Cardinals
If you are new to sports gambling, you could pick a great time to start. The Super Bowl 2009 is less than two weeks away but Super bowl odds are heating up as we are getting closer to Super Bowl XLIII and Super bowl betting fans are getting ready for the action.
Super Bowl odds are always the most popular betting odds of the year. Super Bowl 2009 can be seen on NBC television this year which should increase the popularity since Al Michaels and John Madden are thought to be the best football announcers in the business.
The Super Bowl is by far the busiest event of the year, with estimates of $8 billion in cold, hard cash exchanging hands worldwide. A lot of this money will be wagered by people who are betting for the first and only time in 2009. Most of the people gambling on Super Bowl are not necessarily professional gamblers, but they are having fun, that’s for sure.
By picking up some of the basics of Super Bowl betting, you could increase your chances of getting paid while enhancing your appreciation of the NFL.
Super Bowl gambling bettors will look for the big payoff in Super Bowl odds and take the underdog on the money line. They will almost never take the favorite on the money line, instead choosing to lay the points in Super Bowl betting.
Gamblers will also look to bet the over in the Super Bowl.
If you take a close look at Super Bowl odds you should notice that the favorite, the over and the underdog on the money line will be the most popular wagers in terms of Super Bowl lines.
Now let’s take a look at the betting line.
The Pittsburgh Steelers opened as 7-point favorites over the Arizona Cardinals at press time. The Cardinals got some early support, so the linesmakers have adjusted by lowering the juice on the Steelers from “110 to “105. The total is 47, with the over priced at “105.
These small line movements speak volumes about the Super Bowl. Early bets are often made by sharp handicappers, who always want to get their team at the best price they can. Some were able to get Arizona +7 at the standard “110. Others who waited had to pay “115, but that™s still a bargain compared to the possibility of the line moving to Arizona +6.5.
On the Pittsburgh side of the ledger, the betting public generally prefers to bet on the favorite, and the Steelers are one of the most publicly adored teams in the NFL. Square money tends to come in closer to game time, especially after the Friday workday is done. These market trends are important to follow; if you prefer the Steelers in this matchup, you might decide it’s in your best interests to wait and see if you can get them at “6.5 instead of “7.
People are motivated to bet on the Super Bowl because of the implied entertainment. The sports pages will be filled over the next two weeks with stories about the two teams and their players, mostly of the human-interest variety. But stories that matter to the game itself do hit the newswires, like when Oakland Raiders center Barrett Robbins was spotted drinking and despondent before the 2003 Super Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. These are the kind of developing stories you want to follow and make use of this sort of information before you gamble as we get closer to Feb. 1.
