Getting Your Pre-Match Information

As a newcomer to a sport you need to make sure that you understand the odds, and have a good overview of the game you are interested in. With handball not being the largest sport in the UK it can be hard to find good information in the papers, especially if you want to put down your pre-game bets in time.

We recommend that you take a good look at statistics for the upcoming game as well as handball forums. In the forums is where you normally find the information that takes you to the next level, people here might know if important players are injured or not participating in a game.

For instance, if a star player is behind 40% of goals through scoring or passing and is missing before a game, this would have a great impact on the team. There was once a case of a match where 5 out of 7 starting players got food poisoning before a game, oddsmakers did not notice until 30 minutes had passed, this would have a huge impact on the odds, maybe a decrease up to 70%! In cases like this you won the bet almost before game even started.

Maybe even look at local newspapers to find information for the teams
competing, they can come with some golden bits for you.

If you want to find the best bets we recommend you look at low tier games, such as friendlies or nationals. Here you can find some good odds where bookies act in the dark. We recommend friendlies between teams from different nations as it is harder for bookies to keep track for the upcoming games.

Sometimes in friendlies teams are not competing with their best team or have players missing, they might even want to focus more on a specific part of the game, you can find some good odds on handicap betting here.

You can also play on the line as many people do in football and other sports. This is where you follow the odds as more people have bet on the lowered odds, make sure to have a good look in time though so you don’t miss out on the better odds. To be in front you can always follow professional gamblers, some sell tips before games if you want to be there before everyone else. We highly recommend you have a look at Spanish, French or German gamblers if you wish to get the best pre-match handball tips, this because handball is a bigger sport in these countries so you can be sure gamblers from these countries have a really good eye for this.

The main divisions found in handball are the German, French, Spanish, Danish and Swedish leagues, this is where the sport is a little bit bigger. Then we can find big international tournaments as well, the largest ones are as follows:

• Champions League, which is similar to it’s football equivalent. You find the best teams from the countries playing for the title.

• EHF cup winners cup, where national cup winners compete.

• The Olympic games, handball is a very appreciated sport within the Olympics, and punters find good bets every 4^th year here when the tournament takes place.

• European championship, where all the top European teams come together and compete for the title as best of Europe. Top teams also qualify to the World championship through here.

• World championship, where the top teams of the world compete for the title as best in the world. European teams normally do very well
  in this competition.

Handball Betting Systems

Often while gambling we use different strategies or systems to give ourselves a better chance of winning. We have checked different systems to see which one we consider better, and we will go through them here but we do always advise you get your own pre-match knowledge and do not rely on systems as in gambling you can never be sure to win, if you keep gambling and gambling it is more likely the opposite that happens, you can be sure to lose.

One way to gamble is using progression in your stakes when losing,
this is to “catch” losses while they still are low and then keep advancing. The way this works is by you increasing your stake, say you first put 20 on a team to win but they lose. Next time you will put 40 to cover your loss and at the same time make some profit, but be aware, this way can quickly go bad if you hit a bad series. We strongly advise not to progress to more than 5 times your initial stake.

Another way of betting is following the goals in the game, let’s say there were loads of goals in the first half, 25 of them. Bookmakers would then set something like 52 for the line, but the 2^nd half may be the complete opposite, coaches may let the better players rest if they are in a big lead to avoid injuries and such. We noticed that games quite often change in the halftime and would not advice to gamble for many goals just because in the 1^st half there were many.

In-play bets on a draw after watching a tight game, a draw often
offer very high odds, if you follow a game where the teams have been
very close you can see odds fluctuating between 5-7 for a draw after
45 minutes played. After analyzing 1000 games our punter found that he made a 4% profit betting for draws. In friendlies, the draw was more common than in competitive games.

High handicaps for weaker teams, we have found that oddsmakers normally put very high handicaps for the weaker teams, here you can find really good odds that are probable to win. They normally put high handicaps to make it seem like they are worse than they are, we found many good professional tipsters bet on the underdog and not the favorite in this market.

In friendly games to bet over the line, often in these games coaches are trying out different tactics and players. This can cause the defense to be worse than normal for both teams. But bookies already know this and put higher lines for these games, we can still find some pearls though if we do proper research or find a good tip.

You can do these bets both pre-match and live, but if you are
betting live, make sure you are watching the game so you know what is
going on! Check out which UK bookies offer live streaming here.