Long Term Bets

What are long-term bets?

Long-term bets are a fixed starter on the betting market. This betting form is a classic single bet. In our betting school we want to show you with specific details, how they work and also provide valuable tips and helpful betting strategies.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of long-term bets?

What advantages has this betting form? Ideally long-term bets provide excitement over the course of the whole season. You can gain a big personal advantage, when reading statistics ahead of time and you are up-to-date regarding information and news. An absolute plus are the attractive - read high - odds of course, that you get in the field of long-term bets. We recommend an odds comparison, since the differences in odds can be quite big with certain bookmakers. A disadvantage is the long period of time, that the bet covers. This naturally resembles a certain factor of uncertainty. At competitions that spread over months, it's quite possible that athletes get hurt or get eliminated from the competition for other reasons. You should always be aware of that risk. Additionally long-term bets can soon become uninteresting, if you failed to place the betting the tip before the start of the season. If a certain football team is clearly in the lead after 15 rounds for example, it doesn't make much sense anymore to place a championship bet anymore due to the low odds. On the other hand you could also say: Ok it looks like a safe win and you accept the low odds! If you want to make fast money, long-term bets are obviously not ideal. Your stakes are bound to then bet until the competition is over. So you better think twice, whether you really want to bet a lot of money or rather just put down a smaller amount.

What are long-term bets?

As the name suggests long-term bets spread over a longer period of time. If you like, you could call them the opposite of live bets. Long-term bets are offered for all possible sports, whether it's football, tennis, basketball, ice hockey, Formula 1 or winter sports. The bet is used for longer, season spreading formats - therefore the name. Popular examples would be EURO or World Cup qualifications or final rounds, leagues, cup competitions or other tournaments. The classic long-term bet aims at betting on the winner of the chosen format/competition. Therefore one often speaks of championship bets in football or other sports. For example you can bet on who will win the German Bundesliga, the Premier League, but also tournaments like the Champions League or the DFB Cup. A long-term bet in tennis for example would be betting on the winner of a certain Grand Slam tournament like Wimbledon. This principle works analogically for all other sports: Who will be Formula 1 world champion? Who will win the biathlon total world cup? Long-term bets are usually placed before the season starts or before the championship or the respective tournament kicks off, because then you get the best odds. Of course you can also place them in the course of a certain competition. You can for example bet on the final winner in the semi final. Then four teams or players are still left to choose. Remember: Bookmakers react to the intermediate result and adapt the odds accordingly. The profit calculation works as usual: The betting stakes are multiplied by the betting odds. An example for a long-term bet, where you bet on the winner of a competition would be a tip on the winner of the total world cup in Alpine skiing:

  • Marcel Hirscher | 3,50
  • Alexis Pinturault | 4,00
  • Kjetil Jansrud | 6,00
  • Henrik Kristoffersen | 7,00
  • Aksel Lund Svindal | 10,00
  • Felix Neureuther | 30,00

Which long-term bet strategies can you use?

One can follow many different betting strategies with long-term bets. Above we already mentioned the classic, of betting on the winner of a certain competition. Apart from that there are also many other options, that we want to present to you. Additionally we want to provide important and helpful tips, that are supposed to lead you to betting success.

Exploiting all long-term bet possibilities

In football it's possible for example to bet on who will descend or whether a certain team will finish among the top 3, 4 or 5. Additionally goal scorer bets are very popular: Who will score the most goals in a certain season in the Bundesliga or during the World Cup qualification? Additionally it's possible to place long-term bets according to the so-called over/under principle. Here you tip on, whether a certain number - given by the bookmaker - will be surpassed or not reached. One of many examples would be: Will Barcelona score more/less than 90 goals in the league? In this case we have a 2-way bet. The odds will be much lower in this case as it is usual for this betting form. Another 2-way bet would be a head-to-head bet: Who will be ranked higher in the end? Some betting providers also offer so-called coach bets: Which coach will be hired by a certain team? Which coach will lose his job next? Sometimes you can also find championship bets, where a clear favorite - in the case there is one - is more or less excluded. You could for example place a long-term bet on the champion of the German Bundesliga, where FC Bayern is not included. The sense in that: The offer and the betting odds get more attractive for betting friends! Football has by far the best portfolio regarding long-term bets, just like with other betting forms. Many of the mentioned alternatives can also be found for other sports though. In the motor sports and winter sports sector head-to-head long-term bets are very popular.

Long-term bets: Individual or team sports?

Independent of which kind of long-term bet you choose, you should always do one thing before placing the betting team: Gather as much information as possible. Before the start of a competition, you should know which transfers were made or whether there have been other changes in personnel. Additionally it's important to know about the form of the teams or individual players of the last season or the last weeks and months. Are there injuries or other impairments? Only when the most important facts are known, you should place your tip. You should always be aware: Individual sports are riskier with long-term bets, because everything stands and falls with one person. If the respective athlete, that you bet on, gets injured during the season for example or needs to take a break for other reasons, your bet will be soon lost. In team sports individual injuries can be better compensated. On the other hand it's easier in individual sports to judge the form and make a forecast.

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