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Explaining What Odds Mean and How Professional Gamblers Use it
Hows it going guys , hope you are all doing good 
so today is my 2nd day with steemit , and as I said in previous blog post I make money playing poker and betting on sports 
I will make sure you all understand the concepts behind gambling 

** What Does Odds Means ? **
 In short words odds basically represent the chances of a thing to happen , so let's take a coin flip example 
we all know a coin flip has 50% chance of head and 50% chance of tails 
so if we wanted to bet money on the coin flip , the odds should be X2.00 in order to break even
so if we bet 10$ on heads , we win 10$ if the coin landed on heads and lose 10$ if it landed on tails 

** How Casinos Use Odds to Profit **
we all know that casinos always win , at least mathematically but how do they win ?? 
if you understood  the last coin flip example you should already now have an idea 
the casinos has something called "House Edge " which is a fixed percentage that makes their games impossible to beat 
we know now that in order to break even with X2.00 bet we should have 50% chance of win , if our chance is over 50% we will win money in the long run and if it's lower than 50% we will lose money in the long run

let's see what's the odds for X2.00 payout in primedice casino which is the most popular bitcoin gambling site 

![pd.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbX2vCk32FVjoQEHeu24PmXe4FbAKdQ5GkU2QivZwyziH/pd.png)

as you can see win chance is 49.5% instead the 50% that we should get , which means we will lose money taking this bet 

so now we know that for X2.00 bet in prime dice our chance of winning is 49.5% , so the house chance of winning is 50.5% 
the house edge is : 50.5%-49.5% = 1% 

so by betting on primedice we are expecting to lose 1% of our money everytime we take a bet 

and this how different casinos make money , it's impossible to make money betting against the house longrun 
even Einstein failed to find a way to beat the house 

** So How Are We Going To Make Money Gambling ?? **
in the previous examples we used the coin flip and primedice as an example , calculating the odds in these is simple
but in complicated events like sportsbetting there is no simple way to calculate it 
the sportsbook may offer you a bet that they think the odds are in their favor , but they may be wrong

a professional sports bettor is the one who is able to catch these opportunities , meaning that they bet on the selections that are underestimated by the bookies 

in the coming days I will do some reviews about professional tipsters who you will make money long run by just following their picks

if you have any question about odds and probabilities , feel free to make a comment
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